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Can a giant seawall save Indonesia's disappearing coast?
The encroaching ocean laps against a road in Karminah's village, threatening her home on Indonesia's Java island, where the government says it has a plan to hold back the tide. For residents who have seen the tide come more than a kilometre inland in parts of Java, the plan sounds like salvation.
Charting the global economy: Fed Goes for rate cut as central banks show varied response to economic pressures
Central banks globally are showing varied responses to economic pressures, with regional impacts in Asia and emerging markets like Argentina and Africa facing unique challenges.
Indonesia says Elon Musk's Starlink granted licences to operate
Starlink's network of low Earth orbit satellites can provide internet to remote locations or areas that have had normal communications infrastructure disabled. Indonesia is a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and Jakarta is seeking to connect millions more of its population who are not hooked up to reliable internet services.
Asian coastal cities sinking fast: Study
Rapid urbanisation has seen these cities draw heavily on groundwater to service their burgeoning populations, according to research by Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), published in the journal Nature Sustainability last week.
The world’s highest, and most reckless, user of groundwater
The South Asia Ground Water Forum says the region is the largest user of groundwater, accounting for nearly 50% of the total groundwater pumped for irrigation globally.
