With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable ...
Poverty in Lao PDR declined from 33.5% to 23.2% in the last decade lifting half a million people out of poverty. The country has met the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of halving extreme ...
Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season. Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of ...
Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, has undertaken intensified integration into the ASEAN Community through the Rule of Law and Institutions in its 2007 Charter.
With so many books in the world, reading can be an endlessly expensive hobby. But thanks to the internet and the magic of libraries, there are a ton of ways to read your favorite books for free ...
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The single vehicle crash has closed the PDR in both directions. It’s expected the patient will be flown to Cairns Hospital. The incident follows a fatal collision in August involving a New South ...
Discovering a talented but elusive figure. The week, Nick Harkaway answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug ...
In a new memoir, Al Pacino promises to reveal the person behind the actor. But is he holding something back? In his new novel, the present isn’t much better than the past—and it’s a lot less ...