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VIENTIANE, Oct 19 (Vientiane Times/ANN): A Lao-Chinese project that will encourage people in Phongsaly province to grow agricultural crops instead of opium poppies has been launched, at an estimated cost of 161 million yuan.

The Chinese government is funding the initiative to help improve the lives of people living in Phongsaly as well as bolster economic development.

The aim is to reduce poverty levels by weaning people off the cultivation of opium poppies and encouraging them to grow other crops that have more overall benefit.

An agreement on the project was signed last week in Seo Chai village, Yot Ou district, between Huaphan province and a Chinese company.

The project will run for 30 years from the date of signing, with the Chinese company to work with local residents to grow crops.

The company will provide funding, technical advice and a market for the crops grown, which will be farmed by local residents.

The government has allocated 140 hectares for crop production in Seo Chai and other villages where opium poppies have been traditionally cultivated. The crops harvested will be sold in Laos and to other countries.

Under the project, a secondary school will be built in Seo Chai village, as well as a village office, a police office, health centre, a Lao-Chinese Cultural Friendship centre, and an agricultural training centre.

A market will also be built along with a warehouse to store agricultural produce, a park, housing and dormitories for workers, a crop processing plant, and a place to demonstrate economic development.

The Chinese company will undertake construction of the secondary school in Seo Chai village at a cost of 1.3 million yuan. - Vientiane Times/ANN

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Long before Squid Game was ranked Netflix's top-ranking show in 90 countries, Korean culture was already creating waves. Be it the famous boy band BTS or the 10-step skin care routine, various facets of Korean culture have gained popularity across the world.

In fact, the term Hallyu or The Korean wave was coined to explain the global popularity of Korean culture. Swiri, an inspiring movie about North-South Korea espionage that was released in 1999, was one of the first works to put 'Hallyu' on the map. Autumn in My Heart (2000), My Sassy Girl (2001) followed Swiri to contribute to the Korean wave. Since then, 'Hallyu' has become one of the biggest cultural phenomena.

And now, Korean thriller series Squid Game is making global headlines. The nine-episode series recently crossed 111 million views worldwide and became the most watched original show after its launch last month. The series is all about a contest between 456 debt-ridden individuals who play kids' games for a hefty prize money. Little do they know that losing a game will cost their life. Squid Game is estimated to be worth almost $900 million according to a report by Bloomberg. The show that was produced at an approximate cost of $21 million is cheaper than many other Netflix series.

The streaming giant estimated that 89 per cent of people who streamed Squid Game watched at least 75 minutes and s 66 per cent of viewers (87 million people) finished the series in the first 23 days of it being online.

If you are are a fan of Squid Game, here are some of Netflixs popular Korean dramas that would make you squeal, cry, and laugh with their intense, funny, romantic and suspenseful plots.

1. My Name:

The story revolves around Yoon Jiwoo, a revenge-driven woman who puts her trust in a powerful crime boss and goes undercover as a cop. The series, directed by Kim Jin-min, features Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon and Ahn Bo-hyun. Three episodes out of eight were screened at 26th Busan International Film Festival in the newly created 'On Screen' section, on October 7.

2. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha:

This rom-com series is about Yoon Hye-jin (Shin Min-a), a dentist who loses her job after righteously accusing the clinic's head doctor of overdoing patients' treatment for profit. She embarks on a trip to the idyllic seaside village of Gongjin, where she meets jack-of-all-trades Hong Du-sik (Kim Seon-ho). He is held in high esteem in the village as he takes care of the elders and does not shy away from any odd jobs. By chance, the paths of the two people cross several times and they take a liking to each other.

3. Vincenzo:

This crime drama is about Park Joo-hyung (Song Joong-ki) who joins the mafia and is adopted by Don Fabio, head of the Cassano Family. After his adopted fathers death, he flees to Seoul as attempts are made to kill him by his dads biological son. On his journey to recover 1.5 tons of gold, he meets the female lead Hong Cha-young (Jeon Yeo-been). Later, both of them join forces with the other tenants to fight the Babel Group.

4. Crash Landing on You

A South Korean heiress (Son Ye-jin) goes paragliding and accidentally ends up on the wrong side of the DMZ (the Demilitarised Zone that separates the two Koreas). She is rescued by a captain in the North Korean Special Police Force, Ri Jeong-hyeok (Hyun-bin). Predictably, they fall in love, and he must keep her identity a secret and get her back home before anyone finds out who she is.

5. It's Okay to Not be Okay

Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun) who lives with his older autistic brother Moon Sang-tae (Oh Jung-se) works as a caretaker in a psychiatric ward. There he meets a famous children's book writer, Ko Moon-young (Seo Yea-ji), who is rumored to have antisocial personality disorder.

Circumstances lead Gang-tae to work at the OK Psychiatric Hospital in Seongjin City, the same city where they all lived when they were young. Meanwhile, Moon-young forms a romantic obsession for Gang-tae after finding out that their pasts overlap. On their journey of life they unravel many secrets, seek comfort from each other and move forward in their lives.

6. The King: Eternal Monarch

Lee Gon (Lee Min-ho), a modern-day Emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, attempts to cross the barrier into an alternate reality where the Republic of Korea exists in the Kingdom's stead. He comes across detective Jung Tae-eul (Kim Go-eun), whom he recognises from an identity card he obtained during the turning point of his childhood i.e his father's assassination. Lee Gon's half-uncle, Lee Lim (Lee Jung-jin), who assassinated the previous king, Lee Ho (Lee Gon's father), is in hiding and assembling armies whilst traversing back and forth between the two parallel worlds.

7. Strong Girl Bong-soon

The story revolves around Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) who is born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a delicate and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Guk-doo (Ji Soo), a police officer. Thanks to her strength, she gets a job as bodyguard to rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik), the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. A series of kidnapping cases happen in her district of which she is determined to catch the culprit who targeted her best friend. With the help and training from Min-hyuk, she manages to control her strength and uses it for good causes. Later, Min-hyuk and Bong-soon find their relationship growing. In the pursuit of chasing the kidnapper, viewers are served with a perfect mix of love, action and drama.

8. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, is framed as a traitor and killed by the young king. Years after his death, he is cursed by the Almighty to stay immortal forever, enduring the pain of seeing his loved ones die as punishment for the soldiers he killed to protect his country. The only one who can put an end to this is the goblins bride, by pulling out the sword. Ji Eun-tak (Kim Go-eun) is a bubbly high school student who remains cheerful and hopeful despite her tragic life. She summons the Goblin by chance and their fates begin to entwine. The Goblin's nephew, Yoo Deok-hwa (Yook Sung-jae), leases the Goblin's house to a Grim Reaper (Lee Dong-wook) and the two end up living under the same roof. Ji Eun-tak starts working a part-time job at a chicken store run by a charismatic young woman, Sunny (Yoo In-na). As the lives of Kim Shin, Grim Reaper, Ji Eun-tak and Sunny interweave, a deeper story unfolds, as they are not just strangers who met by chance, but people with deep-rooted relations.

9. Start-up

As the title suggests the drama is all about a few individuals in the world of startup companies which is set in South Korea's fictional Silicon Valley called Sandbox. Seo Dal-mi (Bae Suzy) is a bright and ambitious young woman who dreams of becoming Korea's Steve Jobs. Dal-mi doesn't have a fancy background but she's passionate about her work. She has bright energy and is a person of great vitality, having experience in a wide range of part-time jobs. Nam Do-san (Nam Joo-hyuk), is the founder of Samsan Tech. A math genius as a young boy, he was once the pride of his family but became their shame now, as his business sees a decline in the past two years. He finds out that Dal-mi mistakenly remembers him as her first love, so he decides to work his way up in hopes of turning that misunderstanding into reality.

10. Whats wrong with Secretary Kim?

Lee Young-joon (Park Seo-joon) is the vice-chairman of a major corporation. His world is shaken when, one day, his highly-capable secretary, Kim Mi-so (Park Min-young), announces that she will resign from her position after working for nine years. Young-joon then decided to do whatever he can after talking to his best friend, who happens to be a board director in his company, to make sure Mi-so stays by his side. Throughout the journey, Lee Young-joon planned plenty of things while she decides to find the elusive man from a past traumatic experience of her childhood. Kim Mi-so falls in love with Lee Young-joon as they heal each other of their past traumatic experience of being kidnapped.

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HORLIVKA, Ukraine/KYIV, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian-backed separatists on Monday ended their blockade of a hotel housing international conflict monitors in eastern Ukraine, an incident sparked by the capture of an officer by Ukrainian armed forces last week.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Sunday its monitors were unable to leave their patrol base in a hotel in the separatist-controlled town of Horlivka while the separatists demanded the officer's release.

The OSCE, Europe's main security watchdog, said the base's vehicle entrance had been locked with a chain and padlock and that they had seen tents pitched outside the hotel.

It was one of several incidents reported by the OSCE of its monitors being prevented from carrying out their work since the officer's capture.

On Monday afternoon a Reuters reporter witnessed several protesters who had stood outside the hotel in Horlivka leaving after what they said were talks with the OSCE monitors.

"We agreed today that the protesters unlock the building and give the OSCE members a chance to continue their duties," said one of the negotiators, Natalya Kruzhilina.

Protesters opened the gate of a parking lot where two OSCE cars were parked and dismantled their tents.

However, the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) said in an emailed statement that its monitors were still not able to deploy from their hotel in the city of Donetsk.

The OSCE had suspended the monitoring mission by its team in Donetsk after protesters gathered and pitched tents over the issue of the captured officer. read more

"As a result of a protest in front of the hotel where Mission members live in Donetsk city, and in line with its safety and security procedures, the SMM does not deploy patrols from the Donetsk Team and its Hub in the same city," it said.

"The patrolling from the other SMM locations continues as normal. We call upon the sides to remove all impediments to the SMM's freedom of movement."

The SMM has been deployed in eastern Ukraine since 2014 with the aim of arranging dialogue between Kyiv's forces and the separatists amid a conflict that Ukraine says has so far claimed about 14,000 lives.

"HOSTAGES"

The Ukrainian government had described the OSCE monitors as "hostages" and in a statement called on the international community to investigate what it said was another attempt to undermine the monitoring mission's ability to operate.

"The detention of international observers by armed individuals is a sign of international terrorism," the Ukrainian delegation to the peace talks said.

The foreign minister of the Russia-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Natalya Nikonorova, said the OSCE mission in Donetsk was safe and its monitors had not asked to leave the building so far.

The people outside the hotel were unarmed, Nikonorova said. "There are no acts of violence... People express their resentment and, by the way, we understand them."

The separatists say the officer, Andrei Kosyak, was captured by the Ukrainian military near the front line last Wednesday while he was helping to oversee the ceasefire.

The Ukrainian defence ministry said Kosyak was a Russian citizen and belonged to a group of Russian servicemen who had carried out an undercover reconnaissance mission.

On Sunday, the SMM also said three of its patrol vehicles were prevented from travelling from government to separatist-controlled areas until Kosyak was freed.

The conflict dates back to 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine after mass street protests that ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, a Kremlin ally.

Fighting then erupted in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv's forces and Russian-backed separatists. Moscow rejects Kyiv's accusations that it has deliberately fomented the conflict and that it has forces in eastern Ukraine.

Reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Margaryta Chornokondratenko in Kyiv, Alexander Ermochenko in Horlivka and Maria Tsvetkova in Moscow;Editing by Gareth Jones, Matthias Williams, William Maclean

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Vaccinating citizens against COVID-19 is the only alternative to the introduction of lockdown in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the ICTV channel.

"There are two ways at this crossroads: vaccination or lockdown. Every day we face this challenge and this choice. I am against lockdown - because of the economy. Because if there is no lockdown, we see numbers, we [see economic] growth. Our GDP is growing, the budget is growing, the filling of the budget this year is more than planned," Zelensky said.

According to him, in general, the health care system is prepared for an increase in COVID-19 cases, but despite the supply of oxygen to hospitals, medical institutions will not be able to withstand a large number of patients.

"When the number of [infected] people grows, no system can withstand that. Today we have one of the largest systems in Europe in terms of the number of beds, in terms of oxygen supply. But no one will be able to withstand 300,000 or 500,000 [patients]," Zelensky said.

The head of state called on citizens to get vaccinated to avoid tighter quarantine restrictions in the country.

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