Durian boom exposes ugly land tussles in Malaysia’s Pahang
A clampdown on ‘illegal’ durian farmers in Pahang state shows the fraught land politics at play in the country’s increasingly lucrative Musang King industry, observers say.
Why Asia’s Covid-19 reopening is as much about politics as it is science
Highly vaccinated Singapore’s plan to treat Covid-19 as endemic puts the pressure on other ‘zero-Covid’ economies like Hong Kong and Australia to follow suit.
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