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...Chiang Rai is among Thailand's most glorious provinces, with its rolling hills, forests, elephant camps, sparkling waters and top-quality farm produce....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...For that reason Mr Ibach says the tough-on-trade message of candidates like Mr Trump is appealing to many in farm country....
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...The rest of the slides – including a very rudimentary floor plan for a plant in a desert location next to solar and wind farms – look like they might have been thrown together by a junior Tesla analyst racing...
...This mainly involved consumption-stimulating strategies such as the farm loan waiver scheme or the much-heralded rural employment guarantee scheme....
...Visa Inc is bringing cashless banking to Rwanda as it begins, a little belatedly, to target Africa’s largely unbanked emerging markets....
...The non-farm payroll data are noisy and prone to revision, but many pay attention, and it is not surprising that figures such as these have sparked optimism. Where next?...
...Investors feared the worst ahead of September’s US non-farm payrolls report. But the 263,000 jobs lost and 9.8% unemployment rate surpassed even the worst expectations....
...It appears that we have our “V”. The start of the month on Thursday brought with it the usual slew of updates on the health of the world economy, and they appeared to be in agreement....
...This could lead to higher interest rates, which would undermine the whole V-shaped recovery.” But Burt White, chief investment officer for LPL Financial, disagreed....
...(In a classic British instance of nimby-ism, wind farms are fine so long as they are not in our back yard.)...
...Winning Channel 4’s Road To V contest last year gave them the opportunity to open at the 2007 V Festival. That, in turn, led to the first single release last autumn....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...Each camp could take some comfort from Friday’s non-farm payroll numbers....
...One leading religious conservative questions Mr Bush’s views on Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to abortion....
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