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April 29, 2020 6:45am by Barry Ritholtz My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Some Countries Are Squashing the Coronavirus Curve. Vietnam Is One. (Wall Street Journal) • The II Fear Index: Investors Expect Long Lockdown (Institutional Investor) • Conferences pivot to streaming channels: ‘We look at this as having…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). Vietnam, with its borders to China, Laos and Cambodia, has a rich geographical diversity, and ample access to human migration with the Red River and Mekong deltas, and a long coastline.…

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LAGOS (Reuters) - In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown. “I can’t mill because the…

By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna LatiffKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Two U.S. warships are operating in the South China Sea, the Navy said on Tuesday, with three regional security sources saying they were near an area of a standoff between China and Malaysia.The Haiyang Dizhi 8, a Chinese government research ship,…

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns has a reputation for presenting audiences with incredibly comprehensive, detail-oriented portraits of American history, covering everything from baseball to the Brooklyn Bridge. His documentaries are just as informative as they are engrossing, and you might walk away considering yourself an unofficial expert on whatever topic…

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By Rozanna Latiff and James PearsonKUALA LUMPUR/HANOI (Reuters) - A Chinese government survey ship embroiled in a standoff with Vietnamese vessels moved south near Malaysia, shipping data showed Thursday, amid accusations that China is using the pandemic to assert its presence in the South China Sea.The Haiyang Dizhi 8 was…

in a mountainous region of vietnam, 1+1>2 architects has realized a school for the community with the help of parents, the government and charitable donations. the modest construction utilized local labor and materials, including thatched roofs, stone and earth bricks that were produced on site.all images © son vuthe project provides…

As China was stricken by the coronavirus in late February, its foreign minister addressed a concerned crowd in Laos, where farmers and fishers across the Mekong River region were contending with the worst drought in living memory. His message: We feel your pain. The foreign minister, Wang Yi, said China…