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Big city, small home: How millennials face an urban squeeze amid rising rents in Asia-Pacific
Real estate developers like Spilytus are building micro flats in sought-after areas, such as Ebisu and Nakameguro. This explains their…
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Indonesia’s military is outdated. Is Prabowo the one to refresh it amid South China Sea tensions?
This trilateral construct is what Indonesian defence planners are “most worried about”, thinks Ridzwan, “because it’s opened up another front…
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Is politics behind the difficulties of Malaysia’s education reform?
CRITICISM OVER POLICY SHIFTS The seeming rollback of the DLP is not the first such change in policy on the…
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How climate change can increase the risk of sinkholes — and survival tips you may need
For example, when rainfall saturates the soil, it can undermine the integrity of the ground beneath Singapore’s concrete jungle. And…
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Gen Z Filipinos, the loneliest youths in Southeast Asia, are struggling. This is how and why
The pandemic and heavy use of social media are just two of the contributing factors to the social isolation faced…
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Not quite the Bali it used to be? This is what overtourism is doing to the island
Still, Bali wants to have more visitors to make up for lost time, and lost tourism receipts, when the pandemic…
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‘We can’t just forget about them’: Pain of loss haunts families of missing MH370 passengers
He woke up in the morning and headed for the airport. When he arrived, her flight information was not displayed.…
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On the Thai island of Phuket, sun, sea and Russians making waves
According to the Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, a Moscow-based think-tank, Russia saw a record nett outflow of…
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The China-US factor (and other issues) in Taiwan’s polls, and why it weighs on voters
“This is because Ko is rather straightforward,” says Wang. “He’s very different from other political personalities, … from the usual…
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Amid a battle to break China’s grip on metals powering earth, Southeast Asia counts the cost
But isolating neodymium from its mineral is when things get tricky. Rare earths tend to occur together — often, all…
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