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Mesh greenhouses an ‘agricultural revolution’ for Cambodia

53-year-old Chantha explains, "Transition to net housing for vegetable cultivation has significantly increased my income and lowered labour costs."

  • Published: June 16, 20232:45 pm
  • Author Kim Sarom
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Migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand earn below minimum wage: Study

Domestic workers in Singapore, in particular, reported the most number of hours worked across the three countries, at an average of 12.8 hours per day and 81 hours a week.

  • Published: June 16, 20232:39 pm
  • Author Tan Hui Yee
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Covid-19 patients will not be given free treatment when disease downgraded

Vietnam's Ministry of Health has issued guidelines ready to be implemented when the disease is downgraded to flu-like status this month.

  • Published: June 16, 202312:12 pm
  • Author Viet Nam News
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Month-long Jakarta Fair begins, hailing city’s 496th anniversary

Some 1,500 booths representing 2,500 tenants will be present at the celebrations, with electric vehicles taking centre stage this time around.

  • Published: June 16, 20239:29 am
  • Author Fikri Harish
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Instagram partly to blame for Korea’s record-low fertility rate, says star lecturer

“Back when we were young, we didn’t know omakase dining and golf outings. Because we didn’t have Instagram,” he said, criticising a social media trend in which people…

  • Published: June 16, 20239:28 am
  • Author Choi Jae-hee
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‘We are all waiting for you back home’: Vice-president Duterte

Vice President Sara Duterte made the comment referring to the overseas Filipino workers who work in Singapore.

  • Published: June 16, 20238:41 am
  • Author Jean Mangaluz
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‘Life of Pi’ author Yann Martel says fiction yields deeper understanding of society

His upcoming novel 'Son of Nobody' retells the story of the Trojan War in the voice of a commoner.

  • Published: June 15, 20233:33 pm
  • Author Hwang Dong-Hee
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In the land of elderly rickshaw pullers

The writer says Bangladesh, as a nation, should be able to better protect and provide for the disadvantaged and marginalised population.

  • Published: June 15, 202312:49 pm
  • Author Tasneem Tayeb
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Marcos hands out P50 million in employment aid to Mayon evacuees

Marcos Jr. personally distributed cheques for the emergency employment of thousands who were displaced by Mayon Volcano’s restiveness.

  • Published: June 15, 202312:10 pm
  • Author Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Housewives most at-risk group in Indonesia for contracting STDs

Roughly 5,100 housewives contract HIV in the country each year, with around 33 percent catching the disease from their husbands.

  • Published: June 15, 20239:18 am
  • Author Nina A. Loasana

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