健康与医疗系统
应对未来疫情，中国建“自给自足”型城市
北京附近的一座以木制公寓楼、屋顶农场和可再生能源为特点的新城正处于设计阶段，其总建筑师说，该城区计划配备可以使用无人机的露台以及宽敞的居家办公空间，以防未来疫情爆发。
Rina Chandran focuses on land and property rights for place, and other humanitarian issues at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Mumbai. She has worked as an editor and reporter for about 15 years in Singapore, New York and India for some of the world’s leading outlets, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Reuters and Business Line.
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健康与医疗系统
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深度产业
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健康与医疗系统
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城市转型
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健康与医疗系统
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健康与医疗系统
Here’s how Asia is using tech to tackle COVID-19
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城市转型
To stop the spread of diseases like the coronavirus, we need to reinvent our cities
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自然与生物多样性
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自然与生物多样性
This is Asia's largest urban rooftop farm
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公平、多样性和包容性
Afghan women brave rockets for rights
While growing numbers of women now complete education and work in previously male bastions, they continue to face harassment and hurdles.
公平、多样性和包容性
In war-ravaged Kabul, women find peace in park picnics
In recent years, more than half a dozen of Kabul's gardens and parks have been restored or are being upgraded, with a focus on making them safer and more accessible to women.
公平、多样性和包容性
Facial recognition technology is stopping women from voting - this is how
The first female founder of an Afghan political party has urged the country to rethink the use of facial recognition technology in elections amid concerns it stopped large numbers of wome...
城市转型
Asian cities are facing a threat you might not have thought about
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气候行动
Tokyo’s plan to make 2020 the ‘green Olympics’
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