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The Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB) is stepping up efforts to improve sugar cane farming efficiency and curb PM2.5 pollution through a 6-billion-baht state loan programme for the agricultural sector.
We haven't written up this one. Bangkok Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
The summit in New Delhi is taking place against the backdrop of a global economy facing the adverse impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, the West Asia crisis, especially the blockade of the Strait of…
In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court again rejected a Republican push for a new congressional map in Missouri that could have helped Republicans pick up a seat, climate scientists say August…
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, has been in U.S. custody since 2003.
Korean universities have spent decades building one of the world’s most impressive higher education systems, helping transform the country into a technology and economic powerhouse. But they now face a very different environment: a shrinking domestic student population, competition for talent, widening differences between Seoul and…
For decades, Korea’s unique “jeonse” rental system was widely seen as a natural stepping stone to homeownership. The system spread during the country’s breakneck economic growth in the 1970s. Under jeonse, tenants pay their landlord a large lump-sum deposit — often equivalent to 60 to 80 percent of the property’s value — instead of…
At the start of 2022, Nan Ming-ji, a 40-year-old with Chinese citizenship, moved with his parents into a home in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. The family put down a 140 million won ($104,000) deposit — money his parents had saved since arriving in Korea two decades ago. It was no small sum.
