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Understanding the potential unintended consequences of EUDR legislation on smallholder coffee farmers in Timor-Leste and beyond.

Pacific countries are lagging behind in health service improvements compared to their Asian neighbours, say Ian Anderson and Stephen Howes.

When traffic through the Suez Canal ground to a halt in 2021, the extraordinary cost and disruptions to global commerce seemed overwhelming.

The Korea Forest Service is ramping up its commitment to a green transition by consolidating efforts in the forest industry, now securing nearly 40 partnerships with foreign countries. The nation's forest agency has been actively establishing bilateral agreements for forest cooperation, starting with Indonesia in 1987. A total of 39 countries are now maintaining such cooperative relationships with Korea, and the...

More than a quarter of goods transport passes through a 25-mile wide stretch of water that separates Indonesia to the southwest from Singapore and Malaysia to the northeast, known as the Malacca Strait.

The South China Sea alone carries trade equivalent to 5 per cent of global GDP, which would make it the fourth-largest economy in the world.

It is among companies allocated land and certification at the Special Economic Zone.

Five thousand miles from the canals of Suez and Panama lie even more important shipping lanes, chokepoints that could cripple global trade should any disaster befall them

Flight direct from Singapore to Noumea in New Caledonia and Koror in Palau. Read more at straitstimes.com.

‘We need churches, mosques, or temples that make people feel accepted – at a time when big tech wants to exploit us, at our loneliest, so they can make more money through so-called AI friends’