The US administration said that it had received ‘written assurances’ from Ukraine that it would use cluster bombs carefully. Nonetheless, the munition will provide an additional risk to civilians.
The emphasis on the US and China in our foreign policy in recent years had diminished the significance of our relationships with middle-sized regional countries like Vietnam.
Phew: heat plus humidity can make Bangkok an uncomfortable place in a heatwave.
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Diasporic placemaking is often a story of connections and hidden stories. It is also a complicated story about who owns public spaces and who decides who gets to use it.
André Dao has kept the legacy of his grandparents alive in Anam, a brilliant novel of immense scope that became a full quest for the truth of his family history, which spans the two Vietnam Wars.
U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy near a Kyiv cathedral during Biden’s surprise visit in February 2023.
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The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle that could spark conflict.
Establishing the financial worth of a river’s fish is complicated when many people don’t sell the fish they catch.
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Putting a dollar value on nature has staunch opponents who say it’s morally wrong, but without it, building dams and other infrastructure can run roughshod over vital ecosystems.
Tony Ka Fai Leung and Jane March in the 1992 film of The Lover.
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Margeurite Duras’s fictionalised account of a teenage affair with a much older Chinese man has been criticised as a kind of retro-Orientalist Lolita. But that does her iconic novel an injustice.
Hanni (far left) and the other four members of K-Pop group NewJeans pose for photos on the red carpet at the Fact Music Awards in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 8, 2022.
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The Cold War provided the US with strategic and defensive advantages; some politicians also used it to push their view of what it meant to be American.
Tourism resorts around the world have suffered an economic hit with a drop in Russian tourists.
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James Hammond, International Livestock Research Institute ; Dan Milner, International Livestock Research Institute , and Mark van Wijk, International Livestock Research Institute
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
Social media posts by Vietnamese influencers are spreading dangerous falsehoods about Ukrainians and lauding Vladimir Putin.
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Online campaigns in Vietnam are falsely maligning Ukrainians and discrediting the legitimacy of international organizations. It’s all at odds with the aims of the Vietnamese government.
Dalat, a region in the central highlands of Vietnam, is known for its fertile land and the fruits and vegetables that grow there. As a consequence, interest in the Department of Agriculture at the Dalat Vocational Training College is high.
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Étienne Espagne, Agence française de développement (AFD); Alexis Drogoul, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Emmanuel Pannier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Manh-Hung Nguyen, Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse; Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Agence française de développement (AFD), and Thanh Ngo-Duc, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi
Data analysis suggests local activity will intensify the effects of global warming - so adapting means rethinking national development strategies
Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a building during a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2019. Tesla is a company with both high reliance on North American technology and Chinese supply chains.
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Research suggests that two factors are most important when making decisions on how businesses should respond to the U.S.-China trade war: location and supply chain dependence, and technology.
Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford