Indonesia's fabled island is running out of water, with monsoon rains delayed and the tourist industry expanding.
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Cao Xianli, the owner of a 'ribs and rice' restaurant in eastern China's Qingdao city, is facing his biggest test in a decade of running the eatery. 
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Qu'est-ce que l'Asie Centrale ? La lecture du "Désert et la Source" de René Cagnat offre une plongée avertie et hors des clichés médiatiques dans cette zone mal connue, mal délimitée, mais qui demeure cruciale dans le "Très Grand Jeu" entre l'Amérique, la Russie et la Chine.
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Menacé d’une part, par sa guerre commerciale avec les USA et de l’autre, par la peste porcine qui sévit dans certains pays asiatiques, Pékin pense élever un cochon plus résistant, qui parviendra à le produire aura un énorme avantage économique.
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More than 100 million people live without access to safe water in Southeast Asia. What can be done to improve that and to protect clean water sources.
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There are promises but there are also pitfalls, as Mahathir can tell us
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Trump ‘has a strong incentive to achieve a break in the trade conflict ahead of the election’
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Contrairement à une image véhiculée par la presse, les entreprises chinoises investissent encore peu dans les pays émergents. En revanche, les banques d’État chinoises prêtent massivement à ces pays et leurs prêts financent la réalisation d’infrastructures (routes, ports, aéroports, etc.) qui sont construites par des entreprises chinoises.
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Marchés agricoles sous tension, pénurie d’eau et de certaines denrées alimentaires de base, manque de savoir-faire industriel… Les perspectives de l’agriculture birmane ne sont pas réjouissantes.
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On November 21, Carrefour Taiwan officially launched the first line of private label cage-free eggs from an Asian retailer at its Neihu Store in Taipei’s north.
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Malaysia, whose agriculture sector led the economy for decades into the 1970s, is falling behind Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and other regional players like China, Taiwan, and Korea in terms of innovation, technology, know-how and methodology and product and value chain development.
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L’Union européenne a mis le gouvernement cambodgien en demeure de démocratiser la vie politique si le pays veut continuer à bénéficier de tarifs douaniers privilégiés. Un interventionnisme qui risque de renforcer encore un peu plus l’alliance entre le Cambodge et la Chine.
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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2018 was the lowest on record, helped by a warm winter, increased output by nuclear power plants and reduced household power consumption,
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Three decades ago, it would have been an absurd question. Which city will be the financial capital of Asia? Tokyo, clearly. Now, and in the future.
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Diálogo Chino presents a special series of articles examining the problems of expanding soy and beef production in South America – and how to tackle them
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Ce vendredi 6 décembre, la Chine annonce enlever « certaines » taxes sur les importations américaines de soja et porc alors que les deux pays sont toujours en négociations douanières et que la tension était remonté suite à différentes prises de position américaines sur Hong Kong et les Ouïghours.
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L’agriculture asiatique devra investir 800 Mrd $ d’ici 2030 pour alimenter une population croissante
Du développement de protéines alternatives aux usines de production de pointe en passant par des technologies telles que le big data, la robotique, la blockchain et l’internet des objets, la liste des domaines où les agricultures asiatiques devront investir est vaste et les opportunités nombreuses.
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China will tighten regulations on the use of plastic film by farmers to boost crop yields, which has become a major source of soil contamination throughout northern and western regions, according to a draft policy document published on Friday.
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Massive new hydropower dams are parching the once mighty river’s water levels to lowest in 60 years
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Cambodia’s Stung Chinit Watershed is one of the world’s most productive ecosystems, but it is also among Cambodia’s poorest regions, where inequalities of gender and poverty can make water for drinking and agriculture scarce or unavailable.
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In November 2016, China seized nine armored vehicles that Singapore had shipped through Hong Kong on their return from a training exercise on Taiwan. A day after the seizure, China’s foreign ministry announced that “the Chinese government has always firmly opposed countries that have diplomatic ties with the Chinese mainland…
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Hollywood-style robberies, smuggling and fist fights – not for gold or cash but onions! The Asian diet staple has become a prized possession in countries like India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the retail price ranging between two and six U.S. dollars per kilogram.
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Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands, is known for breath-taking scenery, onsen hot springs and ski areas.
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At the dawn of the 2020s, China is facing challenges that are perhaps the most serious since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Until relatively recently, these were predominantly home-grown problems gathering momentum slowly over the last decade or so. They have become accentuated, though, by the emergence of a new, repressive governance system …
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China has surpassed the United States in an underappreciated but crucial measure of global influence: the size of its diplomatic network.
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