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Pompeo Talks Central Asia, China, Press Freedom In RFE/RL Interview
03rd February, 2020RFE/RL interviewed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his visit to Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, on February 2. He discussed U.S. policies on Central Asia and China’s oppression of minorities, but also journalistic freedom in the world in the wake of the State Department’s controversial exclusion of a reporter from his traveling press pool. Pompeo spoke to RFE/RL’s Aigerim Toleukhan.
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Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
03rd February, 2020China announced it intends to implement a sweeping back on single-use plastics; China now has a more progressive plastics policy than does the United States.
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The village that undergoes a mass exodus every autumn – Arslanbob
05th December, 2019“Every year during the autumn months, a village in Kyrgyzstan undergoes a mass exodus. Around 3,000 families move into the forest for over two months to undertake the world’s most unique harvest.”
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Life on China’s low-speed trains
05th December, 2019An interesting photo gallery of what life is like on China’s slow trains.
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The future of software engineering
05th December, 2019“Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the future of software engineering and the better world ahead”
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