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The Netherlands Embassy, in collaboration with VNU Asia Pacific and DLG Thai, co-organised a press conference to announce Horti Asia under the theme “Challenge & Solution for Asia Horticultural business.” The event was held on 25 April 2022 at the residence of the Netherland’s Ambassador who delivered welcome remarks, followed by pitch presentations from seven companies sharing different knowledge from various perspectives.

Jacqueline Peel’s profile on The Conversation

While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit different countries with varying intensity, responding to the crisis has presented an unprecedented challenge to most governments. In this context, evaluations provide critical tools to support real time sharing of lessons on what is working, what is not, what could work and for whom. This paper draws lessons from evaluations that governments have carried out themselves of their COVID-19 responses. It provides a synthesis of the evidence from 67 such evaluatio...

Vivian P. Y. Lee discusses her article "The City in Flux: Toward an Urban Topology of Hong Kong Cinema," from Telos 197 (Winter 2021).

The Australian Association for Jewish Studies will hold its 2022 conference at Deakin University’s City Campus in Collins St, Melbourne on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 February, and online. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Jewish History in a Global Context – Telling Transnational Stories’, which has been applied across a range of topics…

Expanding global land area for conservation could have an adverse impact on human health and food security, UK researchers have warned.

An international team of researchers have found that strictly protecting global land area for conservation could have an adverse impact on human health and food security in some parts of the world.

“City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907” at LACMA, “Poussin and the Dance” at the Getty, Frieze Los Angeles and more.