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Japanese Companies Compensate Bangladeshi Workers In Their Malaysian Factories

The darker side to global supply chains was again well illustrated recently in slavery like conditions endured by hundreds of Bangladeshi migrant workers at Kawaguchi Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian supplier of plastic parts for TVs and air conditioners to Sony, Panasonic and Daikin
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Rising Temperatures And Extreme Weather Hit Asia Hard

The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves
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ECRL: Tough Questions Must Be Asked Over Labour Conditions

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia-The infamous East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) spans 665 km Peninsular Malaysia, cutting a path of deforestation, river siltation and contributing to the dwindling of Malaysia’s unique wildlife and their habitat.

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Putin-Xi Meeting At Summit Marks The Rise Of Eurasia

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Even as the Ukraine war enters a new phase with significant Russian losses in the Donbass, the center of diplomatic gravity this week will be in the historic city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, where the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is taking place.

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Nepal Becomes US-China Arm-Wrestling Table

HONG KONG, China--The US-China rivalry over the Indo-Pacific region has spilled over to South Asia and the Himalayan nation of Nepal is the latest to become entangled in the trade war between the superpowers.

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Malaysia's Desperate Ministerial Outreach to Source Foreign Workers is "Baffling"

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--As COVID-19 borders slowly and cautiously re-open, Malaysia has recently dispatched at least 3 different ministers (Home Affairs, Human Resources and now Plantations) as well as delegations of actors and business persons across the region (to Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal) in its desperation to urgently secure/source foreign workers for its labour intensive migrant dependent industries, and to ensure a steady flow of domestic workers for Malaysian homes.

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Indonesia becomes the 70th country to authorize Sputnik V

MOSCOW, Russia--The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces the approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the Republic of Indonesia.
 
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Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus authorized in Nigeria

MOSCOW, Russia--The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces the approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria (NAFDAC).
 
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