Which floor is this? Chongqing’s maze-like environment powers its rise as a megacity
From buildings stacked along hillsides to sprawling layered expressways, the Chinese municipality has turned geographical hurdles into engines of growth.
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Bengali film director Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home being demolished for new building
The century-old house, located on Harikishore Ray Chowdhury Road in Mymensingh, is tied to the legacy of the illustrious Ray family, whose contributions to Bangla literature and…
Chinese foreign language majors face uncertain future as AI replaces basic skills
AI translation tools now achieve over 95 percent accuracy at 1 percent the cost of human services, and have seized 40 percent of the general translation market.
AI tops the agenda in ASEAN media workshop
The workshop was organised by the Chinese Mission to ASEAN and China Daily, and aims to empower media organizations in ASEAN countries to enhance their competitiveness in light of…
Bhutan’s health ministry urges caution as Japanese Encephalitis outbreak hits India’s Assam
Though relatively uncommon, the disease can cause life-threatening complications, including brain inflammation, seizures, permanent neurological damage, and death.
Indian female student’s self-immolation attributed to fallout of a failed system
Deeply traumatised over a professor seeking sexual favour and threatening to sabotage her academic career, the girl set herself on fire right in front of the principal’s…
Kathmandu Valley seeing almost a dozen snakebite cases a day
Also, cases of waterborne, foodborne, vectorborne diseases have increased with monsoon.
Young workers in South Korean firms keep decreasing: report
1 out of 5 workers at major Korean companies are in their 20s in 2024 as downward trend persists
More Japanese workers quitting to provide care to family members
106,000 people left their jobs to care for family members during the one-year period ending September 2022, an increase of 7,000 from the previous survey in 2017, per official…
Vietnam faces menace of waste from cheap “green technology” devices
According to statistics, every year, Vietnam discharges more than 90,000 electronic waste, of which waste of mini rechargeable fans and power banks account for a relatively large…