Tuesday, May 12, 2020
How products such as food and clothes are produced and brought to consumers – a set of activities known as value chains – is critical to reducing poverty and hunger, creating jobs and ensuring decent work, innovation and economic growth. If the...
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Global, Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, China, South Korea, Taiwan
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
On 29 November 2019, the Chinese government released the Interim Measures for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Residents to Participate in the Social Insurance Scheme in the Mainland (Measures). The Measures, which will come into effect on 1 January...
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Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Macao S.A.R., China, Taiwan, Asia
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Monday, December 9, 2019
OPINION: Universal health coverage (UHC) has gained momentum across the globe in recent years, especially after the United Nations began promoting it as one of its health targets under the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030. (...)...
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Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Europe, United Kingdom
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Taiwan could face the same problem as Hong Kong if it does not solve the issue of high rent and housing prices, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday, as he unveiled a new housing policy called “Housing Justice 2.0.” The housing price-to-...
Thursday, August 2, 2018
The Ministry of the Interior’s Construction and Planning Agency has received more than 10,000 applications for housing subsidies in the first week of the application period, with the majority of applicants seeking rent subsidies, agency statistics showed...