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6 days ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Pamela Ephraim |Biswash Chepang
In Africa, pioneering media outlets play a key role in combating environmental degradation and climate change. Environmental protection is everyone’s responsibility. As such, politicians, civil society actors, experts, scientists, climate activists, young people, and various leading figures all fight for climate justice on the African continent. Media outlets rarely take part.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. In October 2024, a sudden explosion rocked a steel factory at Morowali in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. When Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before African leaders at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in September and promised a greener, more sustainable future, the applause was loud.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Biswash Chepang |Amrit Sufi |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu
A controversial cable car project has been proposed in the sacred site of Pathibhara (Mukkumlung) in eastern Nepal, home to the Indigenous Yakthung (Limbu) community. Local residents from the Limbu community are opposing the project, arguing that it will harm their historical and cultural heritage. The Pathibhara cable car project, spearheaded by IME Group, a Nepali conglomerate, has become a flashpoint in the ongoing tension between “development” advocates and local Indigenous groups in Nepal.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Pamela Ephraim |Zita Zage |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu
In Nigeria, where women make up half the 237.5 million population, an estimated 23 million female entrepreneurs account for 41 percent of the nation’s micro-businesses. This places the West African nation among the countries with the highest female entrepreneurship rates globally. Women-owned businesses also contribute 37 percent to the nation’s GDP, highlighting women's critical role in driving Nigeria’s economic growth.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Zita Zage |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Arzu Geybullayeva
As the world observed World Water Day on March 22 this year, Kenya’s lakes are facing a pollution crisis that threatens fishing communities and public health. In late 2024, over 50 tons of fish died in Lake Victoria due to worsening water quality, while studies have detected toxic pollutants in fish from Lake Nakuru. Weak enforcement of environmental laws has allowed unchecked industrial waste dumping, escalating the crisis.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Brian Hioe
Following the discovery of significant oil reserves at the Agadem site in northeastern Niger, Niger and Benin agreed to build a pipeline to facilitate the transport of crude oil from the Agadem oil site to the port of Seme Kpodji in southern Benin in early 2020. By the end of 2023, the 1,980-kilometer pipeline, with nine reservoir stations along the route, was completed.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Vivian Wu
一、輸入資料 ．pd.Series()：透過傳入一個 list 來建立自己的 Series。 s_data = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) ．pd.DataFrame()：用帶有標籤的 list 來建立自己的資料集。 classmate ={'Name':['王小明','吳小欣','盧小玲','許小惠','鄭小宇','張小婷'], 'Sex':['M', 'M', 'F', 'F', 'M', 'F'], 'Score':[48, 85, 62, 74, 81, 76],} pd.DataFrame(classmate) 不過，DateFrame在使用上較常讀取外部資料來進行後續的分析。Pandas提供了以下幾種語法讓使用者可以快速載入資料： ．pd.read_table(filename)：從限定分隔符號的文件內輸入資料。 ．pd.read_csv(filename)：輸入.csv文件的資料。 ．pd.read_excel(filename)：輸入.xlsx文件的數據。 ．pd.read_sql(query,...
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com | Kerry Contini |Sunny Mann |Vivian Wu
Please join Baker McKenzie and ACC Minnesota at Hewing Hotel on Wednesday, May 1st to hear from the international speakers, bringing perspective from the US, EMEA, Asia and LATAM. Focusing on the evolving global geopolitical landscape, they will discuss the legal and compliance considerations that play an increasingly central role in mitigating against geopolitical risks and informing critical business decisions.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
globalcompliancenews.com | Vivian Wu |Yiwei Sun
In briefOn 27 February 2024, China published the amended Law on Guarding State Secrets (“Amended SSL“), which will take effect on 1 May 2024. The Amended SSL enhances state secrets protection from multiple aspects, together with the Counterespionage Law amended in 2023, the National Security Law, and other national security related laws and regulations. The highlights of the Amended SSL are summarized as follows:a.
