Bloomberg Time is running out for the 70 acres of sugar cane and fruit that Balasaheb Pandharinath Shende farms in India’s Maharashtra state. After two years of drought, his fields are parched and his wells have dried up. Monsoon rains that usually arrive this time of year should help, but the government says they will be at least a ...

  Jakarta / AFP When HeniKarmila sought to find a doctor for her ailing mother using Indonesia’s new healthcare system, she faced a nine-hour wait in a line outside a crowded public hospital in Jakarta. “The queue at the hospital is always very long, packed with young and old people, pregnant women, people who have had accidents, those in need ...

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