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Public schools in India are refusing to enroll children from Myanmar because the government doesn’t officially recognise Rohingya refugees.
An estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims live in slums across India.
The majority arrived after the 2017 military crackdown on the minority group.
Most refugees are undocumented and can’t afford private school fees, leaving a generation of children at risk of missing out on an education.
Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports.
The 180,000 names were part of a list of 800,000 Rohingya that Bangladesh submitted to Myanmar in six batches, Bangladesh government says.
Published On 4 Apr 20254 Apr 2025
Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladeshi government has said.
Friday’s announcement, following talks in Bangkok, offered a possible breakthrough in the long-stalled repatriation process, although many Rohingya refugees say all of them should be allowed to go home.
Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar confirms 180,000 Rohingya eligible to return, Bangladesh says”
The top 10 oil1 producers and share of total world oil production2 in 20233
| Country | Million barrels per day | Share of world total |
| United States | 21.91 | 22% |
| Saudi Arabia | 11.13 | 11% |
| Russia | 10.75 | 11% |
| Canada | 5.76 | 6% |
| China | 5.26 | 5% |
| Iraq | 4.42 | 4% |
| Brazil | 4.28 | 4% |
| United Arab Emirates | 4.16 | 4% |
| Iran | 3.99 | 4% |
| Kuwait | 2.91 | 3% |
| Total top 10 | 74.59 | 73% |
| World total | 101.81 |
1 Oil includes crude oil, all other petroleum liquids, and biofuels.
2 Production includes domestic production of crude oil, all other petroleum liquids, and biofuels and refinery processing gain.
3 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics, Total oil (petroleum and other liquids) production, as of April 11, 2024
The top 10 oil1 consumers and share of total world oil consumption in 20222
| Country | Million barrels per day | Share of world total |
| United States | 20.01 | 20% |
| China | 15.15 | 15% |
| India | 5.05 | 5% |
| Russia | 3.68 | 4% |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.65 | 4% |
| Japan | 3.38 | 3% |
| Brazil | 3.03 | 3% |
| South Korea | 2.55 | 3% |
| Canada | 2.41 | 2% |
| Germany | 2.18 | 2% |
| Total top 10 | 61.08 | 61% |
| World total | 99.95 |
1 Oil includes crude oil, all other petroleum liquids, and biofuels.
2 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics, Total oil (petroleum and other liquids) consumption, as of April 11, 2024
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Last updated: April 11, 2024. Note: Source data are subject to change since last update.
February 3, 20255:50 PM GMT+7Updated 3 months ago
MANILA, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The Philippines, among the world’s largest rice importers, declared on Monday a food security emergency to bring down the cost of rice, which it said has stayed elevated despite lower global prices and a reduction in rice tariffs last year.
The declaration, which was widely expected, will allow the government to release buffer stocks to help bring down retail prices of the national staple, Agriculture Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel said in a statement, adding it would remain in effect until the price situation improves.
Despite efforts to liberalise rice imports and reduce tariffs, the agriculture department said, the domestic market has been slow to respond, with retail prices surpassing expectations.
Half of the 300,000 metric tons buffer stock the National Food Authority currently holds could be released over the next six months to ensure supply for emergencies and disaster response, it added.
The annual rate of increase in rice prices in the Philippines hit a 15-year high of 24.4% in March last year, but has since moderated to 0.8% in December, helping keep overall inflation for 2024 within the government’s 2% to 4% target.
Last year, the Philippines lowered tariffs on rice and extended existing tariff cuts on some other commodities to combat inflation and ensure ample supply
Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Martin Petty
The pups are cute – and great for PR – but they’re modified grey wolves. The real work is being done with their red cousinsThu 10 Apr 2025 15.50 BSTShare109
I’ve been waiting for this. Ever since researchers almost brought a wild goat species back from extinction in 2003, it was only a matter of time until someone came forward and said they had successfully “de-extincted” a species. Now, it has happened.
This week, American biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Colossal released a video that invited viewers to “experience the first dire wolf howls heard in over 10,000 years”.
But these are not dire wolf howls, and these are not dire wolves. To make the pups, scientists edited the DNA inside grey wolf cells to make it more dire wolf-like. Twenty changes were made to 14 different genes involved in coat colour, body size and skull shape. Then the cells were used for cloning.
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Airparif, an independent group that tracks air quality for France’s capital region, said this week that levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) have decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 50 percent. It attributed this to “regulations and public policies,” including steps to limit traffic and ban the most polluting vehicles.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution heat maps show the levels of 20 years ago as a pulsing red — almost every neighborhood above the European Union’s limit for nitrogen dioxide, which results from the combustion of fossil fuels. By 2023, the red zone had shrunk to only a web of fine lines across and around the city, representing the busiest roads and highways.
A C-section is the surgical method of delivering a baby, meant to be used in complicated pregnancies. It’s a lifesaving procedure, but in India, millions of mothers are going under the knife unnecessarily. The Cesarean section rate in India’s private hospitals is a whopping 47.4%, far greater than the 15% threshold recommended by the WHO. As private hospitals of all kinds mushroom across the country, C-sections have become a money-making racket. An increasing number of doctors have little patience for normal deliveries and are in a hurry to wield the scalpel. Hapless mothers in their hands are forced to undergo surgeries which comes with risks for both mother and baby.
Tỉ lệ sinh mổ tại Việt Nam gần 50% và ngày càng gia tăng
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Tỉ lệ sinh mổ ở Việt Nam tăng 37% do các sản phụ “quyết” chọn ngày đẹp, giờ đẹp để sinh con.
Quyết tâm “khép chân ở nhà” do kiêng đẻ mùng một
Một sản phụ 34 tuổi (Hà Nội) mang thai lần hai, đến tuần 40 của thai kỳ, chị không đi khám đúng hẹn. Nguyên nhân do gia đình không muốn sinh con mồng một, sợ sẽ khó nuôi nên cố chờ qua ngày. Chị nói bé đầu tiên cũng chọn ngày giờ, sinh mổ ở tuần 41 không vấn đề gì xảy ra nên yên tâm.
Khi tới khám, BS Nguyễn Trung Đạo – Khoa Sản bệnh A4, Bệnh viện Phụ sản Hà Nội – phát hiện ối xanh, đầu con lọt thấp và chỉ định nhập viện ngay. Nếu kéo dài, nguy cơ rủi ro tăng gấp 10 lần. May mắn, sản phụ chuyển dạ an toàn, sức khỏe mẹ và thai nhi ổn định. Bé trai chào đời nặng 3.8kg, khóc to, hồng hào.
Trước đó, Bệnh viện Phụ sản Hà Nội cũng tiếp nhận thai phụ 39 tuổi suýt tử vong do tiền sản giật nặng ở tuần thai 37 nhưng quyết không mổ vì kiêng ngày mùng một. Bác sĩ cấp cứu mất rất nhiều thời gian để thuyết phục. May mắn bé gái chào đời an toàn, sức khỏe người mẹ ổn định.
Tỉ lệ sinh mổ ở Việt Nam tăng lên 37%
PGS.TS Vũ Văn Du – Phó giám đốc Bệnh viện Phụ sản Trung ương – cho biết: “Tại Việt Nam, tỉ lệ mổ lấy thai tăng liên tục trong 15 năm qua, từ 12% năm 2005 lên 37% vào năm 2022. Bên cạnh các chỉ định từ bác sĩ, nhiều thai phụ và gia đình yêu cầu được sinh mổ chủ động.
Tỉ lệ sinh mổ cao đã trở thành một vấn đề cấp bách, làm dấy lên mối lo ngại về tác động của nó đối với sức khỏe của bà mẹ cũng như hậu quả lâu dài”.
Theo Tổ chức Y tế thế giới (WHO) khuyến nghị, tỉ lệ sinh mổ chỉ từ 10-15%. Trong y khoa, khi vượt quá 15% được coi là không cần thiết. Tuy nhiên, trong những thập niên gần đây, tỉ lệ sinh mổ tăng trên toàn thế giới. Theo dự báo, năm 2030, tỉ lệ mổ lấy thai toàn cầu là 29%.
PGS Trần Danh Cường – bác sĩ sản phụ khoa – cho biết, người mẹ sinh thường không gặp các biến chứng của sinh mổ như gây tê màng cứng, gây mê, chảy máu vết mổ sau đẻ.
Sau sinh thường, sản phụ sữa sẽ về nhiều do được kích hoạt hệ thống nội tiết trong quá trình chuyển dạ. Mặt khác, thời gian hồi phục của sản phụ đẻ thường sẽ nhanh hơn. Em bé sinh thường phải trải qua một thời gian dài trong quá trình chuyển dạ nên phổi hoạt động tốt, hệ hô hấp tốt hơn trẻ sinh mổ.
Các bác sĩ khuyến cáo, khi không có chỉ định sinh mổ, sản phụ nên lựa chọn sinh thường. Bác sĩ sẽ cân nhắc lợi ích giữa việc sinh thường và sinh mổ chủ động một cách hợp lý nhất. Do khi tỉ lệ sinh mổ lặp lại cao, sản phụ thường có nguy cơ mắc rau tiền đao, rau cài răng lược và cắt bỏ tử cung khi có thai tăng lên sau mỗi lần sinh mổ.
Mẹ bầu và gia đình không nên quá mê tín, chọn ngày đẹp, giờ đẹp để sinh mổ chủ động. Đứa trẻ ra đời sớm có thể khiến bé bị thiếu tháng, hệ hô hấp chưa hoàn thiện, viêm phổi, ảnh hưởng phát triển sau này. Chưa kể, đẻ mổ để lại nhiều biến chứng ở mẹ, như nhiễm trùng, sẹo, vết mổ không lành, ngứa, nguy cơ vỡ tử cung khi có sẹo mổ cũ hai lần cao gấp đôi so với sẹo mổ cũ một lần.
We go deep into the vast world of India’s scam call centers, meeting those behind the deception and the new breed of international scambaiters who are trying to bring these scammers down. After seven years of running tech support scams, ‘Leo’ has leveled up. He is now an entrepreneur or a scam call center consultant who sets up scamming outfits for those with money to invest. From hiring to hardware, he has it down to a science, especially on how long it will take to generate returns for the investors. At the other end of the spectrum, we follow an Indian scambaiter ‘Sven’ as he investigates a local company that’s running a scam call center. The majority of their victims are English-speaking foreigners overseas. Through reverse tracking, he has managed to get into the company’s systems, securing access to their confidential files and real-time CCTV footage of scams taking place. Will ‘Sven’ be able to find enough evidence to submit to the police and conduct a crackdown?
00:00 Introduction
01:54 Why one Nepali man joined into the Russian army 04:07 Is this human trafficking?
05:45 Nepali soldiers fighting for foreign armies
07:36 Chinese mercenaries share their experiences on Douyin
12:51 Fighters from Central Asia killed on the frontlines
13:55 Kyrgyz prisoners summoned to war
15:55 What happened to a fallen Kyrgyz prisoner?
19:29 A contract only in Russian with a hidden clause
22:35 Amateur soldiers face the horrors of war
25:03 Mercenaries captured by Ukraine
26:08 Inside a Ukrainian POW camp
26:58 Why one POW joined the Russian army
28:19 Infantry soldier turned POW
29:16 Russia is not claiming its POWs
30:38 Mercenary’s family hopes for his return to Nepal
33:51 Prisoners promised freedom if they survived
36:04 Arrested in Kyrgyzstan for participating in a foreign war
36:53 Russia’s influence in Central Asia
38:22 Nepali activists fight to bring their men home
39:41 Hunting for a missing Nepali mercenary
41:58 Families meet with members of parliament
43:58 What are the mercenaries doing now?
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Hồng Lĩnh: Thứ bảy 29/03/2025, 09:26 (GMT+7)
Tại Thiềng Liềng, có khoảng 243 hộ dân với 152 hộ sản xuất muối trên diện tích gần 400 héc-ta. Người làm nghề muối còn được gọi là diêm dân.
Ước tính trung bình mùa vụ thu hoạch khoảng 20.000 tấn muối, giá bán tuỳ theo thời năm và thời điểm, thấp nhất 800 đồng/kg, cao nhất 3.000 đồng/kg. Nếu được giá, mỗi héc-ta thu được từ 80 – 100 triệu đồng/vụ.
Published: 11:15am, 31 Mar 2025
Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam war ended 50 years ago: stay in his small village and help his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making fish sauce, or join the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing his country for a better life.
Phong chose to stay behind and nurtured a business making the beloved condiment, known as nuoc mam in Vietnam, that is now in its fourth generation with his son, Bui Van Phu, 41, at the helm.
Tiếp tục đọc “Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnam’s traditional fish sauce makers”
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The map above shows the huge difference in the size of the UK vs Japan’s highspeed rail networks in 1963 compared to 2025.
The UK’s Stockton and Darlington Railway (25 miles; 40km long) opened in 1825 as the first passenger railway anywhere in the world.
And according to the Institution of Civil Engineers
“Allowing for stops, the first train to run on the S&DR averaged a speed of 8mph (13km/h) on its inaugural journey.”
It also cost £5.1m (in today’s money) and took only 3 years to complete.
Thus 2025, is the 200th anniversary of the existence of passenger rail.
At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate (Edo period) still ruled Japan, which remained more or less closed off to the rest of the world. And wouldn’t start opening up until it was forced to do so by the Americans from 1853.
Japan wouldn’t open it’s first railway line from Tokyo to Yokohama until 1872 almost 50 years after the UK.
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