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Indonesia plans to clear forest land roughly the size of Belgium. Forest land of about 30,689 square km will be cleared to grow sugarcane for bioethanol, along with rice and food crops, according to a report by the Associated Press. Citing environment watchdogs, the Associated Press report mentioned this as the largest planned deforestation in the world. “Imagine every piece of vegetation in that area being completely cleared ... having all the trees and the wildlife erased from the landscape and replaced with a monoculture. It’s creating a zone of death in one of the most vibrant spots on Earth,” said Glenn Horowitz, chief executive of US non-governmental organisation...

Luxury is often associated with short stays in high-end hotels, an expensive treat reserved for special occasions. However, a surprising trend is taking hold in parts of China where people are trading in their homes to live full-time in luxury hotels. Across various Chinese provinces, residents are opting for hotel living over traditional housing. Many say it spares them the stress of apartment hunting and dealing with landlords. They enjoy the comfort and convenience of hotel life and some even claim it’s cheaper than buying a home. Chinese Residents Opting For Hotels Over HomesAccording to Audit Central, an increasing number of people in China are opting to live in hotels rather...

A man in China who has a habit of smelling his dirty socks recently ended up with a lung infection. A middle-aged office employee from Chongqing was admitted to the hospital following the diagnosis, Sinar Harian reported. The man underwent a CT and MRI scan, and his doctor discovered a suspicious shadow at the bottom of his right lung. A bronchoscopy revealed that the lung was infected with mold due to Aspergillus disease. Aspergillosis is an infection caused by a type of mold, typically affecting the respiratory system. The fungus is often found on decaying leaves and compost. After he was questioned about the possible cause of the illness, he admitted to having a habit of smelling...

A 27-year-old Japanese man has trended on social media because his unconventional name of “Happy” has brought him just the opposite. After Happy Terauchi’s story was reported by ABEMA Prime TV at the end of March, a heated discussion about unusual names was triggered on the internet. His name was given to him by his mother to mark the overwhelming joy she felt when Terauchi, her first child, was born. But she did not expect his name would bring him so much trouble. Terauchi’s name attracted much attention at school and led to him being bullied.   (Terauchi’s name has given him nothing but trouble throughout his life. Photo: ABEMA Prime) He hates...

EUTIN, Germany (AP) — It’s timber over Tinder in a forest in northern Germany where the Bridegroom’s Oak has connected lovers for more than a century.   (A letter posted in a hole in the Bridegroom’s Oak which has a famous knothole that has been used as a mailbox since 1892, in Dodau forest, near Eutin, northern Germany, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) Known as “Bräutigamseiche” in German, the Bridegroom’s Oak has a famous knothole that’s been used as a mailbox since 1892. It even has its own postal code in the Dodau Forest some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Berlin. Mail carriers from the German postal...

Yu started from humble beginnings, having been born in a small village in China's southern Hunan province in 1922, according to Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. In 1949, he left his hometown for Shanghai, where he worked multiple jobs in hopes of achieving success. However, he faced imprisonment for several years due to false accusations, leading to the confiscation of his entire savings. Upon regaining his freedom, Yu moved to Hong Kong in 1958 and started working as a toilet cleaner for a large firm. While his colleagues often rushed their jobs, Yu was diligent and made his best efforts at work and even came to work on the weekends when others were seeking rest or...

မြေယာစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဌာနမှ မြို့မြေ/ရွာမြေ၊ သာသနာမြေ၊ ဗုဒ္ဓသိမ်မြေ၊ မြစ်ကမ်း သဲသောင်မြေ၊ ရေကန်မြေ၊ သုသာန်မြေ၊ ကျေးရွာဘုံမြေ၊ စားကျက်မြေ၊ အစိုးရက စီမံခန့်ခွဲခွင့်ရှိသောမြေများကို အောက်ပါမြေယာ စီမံခန့် ခွဲမှုဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ...

ငွေရေးကြေးရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကိစ္စရပ်များအား စနစ်တကျစီမံခန့်ခွဲစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်၍ ငွေရေးကြေးရေး အဖွဲ့ အစည်းဥပဒေနှင့် ဗဟိုဘဏ်ဥပဒေသို့ ထွက်ရှိထားပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံခြား ငွေရေးကြေးရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်း၊ ဘဏ်ခွဲ တစ်ခုခုမှ နိုင်ငံအတွင်း ငွေရေးကြေးရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ဆောင်မှု...

အပတ်စဉ်ဥပဒေအမေးအဖြေအစီအစဉ်ကို စောင့်မျှော်အားပေးနေကြတဲ့ အိမ်ခြံမြေလောကသားတို့အတွက် ဒီတစ်ခေါက်မှာတော့ iMyanmarHouse ဆီကို မေးလာကြတဲ့မေးခွန်းတွေထဲမှ အမေးအများဆုံး အမေးအဖြေသုံးခုကို ဒီတစ်ပတ်အတွက် ဥပဒေအမေးအဖြေကဏ္ဍမှာ တင်ဆက်ပေးထားပါတယ်။ မေးခွန်း (၁) -...

An Indonesian man named his newborn son ‘Dinas Komunikasi Informatika Statistik’ — after the department he works in. Indonesian portal Kompas reported that Slamet ‘Yoga’ Wahyudi, 38, from Brebes Regency, Central Java had come to an agreement with his then pregnant wife, Ririn Linda Tunggal Sari, that he would be allowed to choose the baby’s name if the child is a boy. When the baby arrived on December 23, Slamet decided to name him ‘Dinas Komunikasi Informatika Statistik’ (Department of Statistical Communication). Slamet admitted that hearing the name for the first time does sound strange. “Thankfully my wife did not mind,”...