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Organic rice ‘better option than state payments’

Bunthiang Pholthongsathit, head of a farmer-development group in Khon Kaen. (The Nation) While the government’s controversial rice-pledging scheme has now been begrudgingly accepted by the majority ...

Oct 21, 2013
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Philippine nurses in Tokyo hurdle gap in language

Philipino nurses at a hospital. (Inquirer) TOKYO ― It was hard enough being transplanted into a new culture. Being hobbled by a completely alien language was another burden on Joyce Paulino and hund...

Oct 14, 2013
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Young Taiwanese start businesses

Web entrepreneur Jeff Yang has grand plans for his third business venture despite the failure of his first two efforts. His auction website, Sajawa, which he co-founded in 2009 with a university cla...

Oct 14, 2013
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S. Korean fashion makes inroads in Japan

Firms are confident that Japan’s affection for K-pop, television and other forms of popular culture will translate into success in the fashion South Korean clothing, cosmetics and other brands are r...

Oct 7, 2013
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Child marriages on the rise in Malaysia

In Malaysia, girls under the age of 16 cannot legally drive or buy cigarettes. They can’t even watch certain movies or go clubbing. But they can marry ― lawfully at that. And many are increasingly d...

Oct 7, 2013
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Jakarta wants firms to hire locals before expats

Indonesia is looking at finding more ways to ensure that qualified locals land jobs that would otherwise go to foreigners, Manpower Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said. Last year, it listed 19 human res...

Oct 7, 2013
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China migrant workers less insured

Less than 24 per cent of migrant workers in eight urban areas in China are covered by public health insurance in the cities in which they work, according to a recent study. Researchers who compiled ...

Oct 7, 2013
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Huawei to create 5,500 new jobs in Europe

Huawei, China’s leading information and communications solution provider, has pledged to diversify its service portfolio in Europe, while the United States has offered no easy market access, its seni...

Sept 23, 2013
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More children in China being homeschooled

Parents’ frustrations with public school system force rethink of kids’ education

Sept 23, 2013
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Interest rate liberalization on way, says China adviser

China is actively developing rules to establish a deposit-insurance system and to manage financial institutions’ bankruptcies ― two steps widely believed to herald the final interest rate liberalizat...

Sept 16, 2013
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Tents, makeshift shelters for 44,000 evacuees

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines ― The white Philippine Air Force tent is in the middle of the city’s sports complex, ringed by rubber track and just a little off-center of the football pitch. It is surr...

Sept 16, 2013
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Japan to conduct detailed cesium survey off Fukushima

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has decided to conduct a survey on about 600,000 spots on the seabed east of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to check for radioactive contamination in the...

Sept 16, 2013
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Japan PM's Fukushima remark backfires at home

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reassurance to the International Olympic Committee that contaminated water leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are ``under control'' has back...

Sept 15, 2013
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Philippine senate to expand probe of pork scam

Philippine Sen. Francis Escudero has raised the possibility that the heads of the government agencies that allowed their offices to be used as conduits for pork barrel to questionable nongovernment o...

Sept 9, 2013
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More Koreans choose Laos for healing, retirement

The air is redolent of mouthwatering grilled meat at Hwang Hye-hun’s residence at Naxay village in Sisattanak district. He is hosting a dinner party for the opening of his consultation clinic, KMC Ce...

Sept 9, 2013
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