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Andaman Riviera set to ‘pave’ the way with final report in February

The ambitious Andaman Riviera project, a 50 billion baht (US$1.5 billion) initiative to construct over 600 kilometres of new roads along Thailand’s Andaman coast, is set to see its final report completed in February. The Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OPT) confirmed the development yesterday, October 21. Chaiwat Sangkhaphak, OTP Division Director …

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Why the Philippines’ Vice President Talked About Beheading Her Boss

Sara Duterte was fed up. The vice president of the Philippines was facing accusations of corruption in Congress, which she saw as the latest political attack orchestrated by her boss, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. So she called a news conference on Friday. Ms. Duterte rambled for two hours, hurling invectives at Mr. Marcos. She […]

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Harris’s Early Career: Prosecutor by Day, Boldface Name by Night

In August 1996, a jury in an Oakland, Calif., courtroom convicted a man of slicing off a portion of his girlfriend’s scalp. The prosecutor was Kamala Harris, and the gruesome case was one of the few that made news early in her career. “It was a vicious crime,” Ms. Harris told The Oakland Tribune. She […]

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The Quest to Save the ‘King’ of Japanese Rice From Rising Temperatures

Scientists in Japan are racing against time to save the country’s most popular rice from the devastating effects of climate change. At a research center in Niigata Prefecture, Japan’s mountainous heartland of rice production, a team of scientists has identified a pattern within rice DNA that makes certain varieties of the plant resistant to heat. […]

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