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US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze foreign aid programmes and effectively shut down USAID – the US government agency responsible for international development – has rattled countries across Asia. In Thailand, home to some 90,000 refugees from Myanmar, medical care for the displaced people has already been paralysed.
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It's called the silent killer: air pollution is killing over 100 children under the age of five every day across East Asia and the Pacific, according to a new report by UNICEF. The UN agency's policy specialist Nicholas Rees tells FRANCE 24 that air pollution not only affects children's health, it also deprives them of basic rights including education.
Plus, as the US president begins a trade war with China, a Trump-inspired opera has been a smash hit in Hong Kong, where people packed the iconic Sunbeam Theatre to see an unlikely mix of geopolitics, time travel and Cantonese singing laced with black humour.