InAsia: Vietnam Navigates Pandemic with Success; Podcast—Leather Industry’s Tough Road to Get Green; Luce Scholar Interrupted

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May 27, 2020
By Sadat S. Shibli and Taherul Islam

Dangerous storage of toxic leather tanning chemicals at the Tannery Industrial Estate in Bangladesh
NEW AUDIO: Bangladesh's big bid to reform its leather tanning industry was supposed to clean up pollution and end worker exploitation. So far, it hasn't worked out as planned.
Empty streets during lockdown in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Photo: Quoc Huy Duong / Pixabay
By Tran Chung Chau, Michael D. Gregorio, and Nicola Nixon 
 
How has a country of 96 million that can barely get its citizens to obey the traffic laws managed the Covid-19 pandemic with less than 300 cases and no deaths? Read more.
Bridge provides a shorter route to get water from communal wells
By Bakhytgul Titov, Mark Koenig, Khaliungoo Ganbat   

A mobile app lets residents of Ulaanbaatar vote for their priorities for new infrastructure projects. The latest round of voting shows that Mongolia may be a good fit for digital democracy. Read more.
2019-20 Luce Scholar Davis Butner, Toshogu Shrine in Japan
By Davis S. Butner 
 
When Luce Scholar Davis Butner fled Shanghai ahead Covid-19 travel restrictions, he brought only a dufflebag, and a set of indelible impressions of a city he calls "a boiling hotpot of overlapping daily routines and paradoxical interactions." Read more.
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