The Obtain: Expanded provider screening, and the way Southeast Asia plans to get to house

It’s a scorching October day in Bangkok and I’m wandering by way of the reveals on the Thai Area Expo, held in one of many metropolis’s busiest procuring malls, after I do a double take. Amid the flashy house fits and mannequin rockets on show, there’s a plain-looking bundle of Thai basil hen. I’m advised the identical form of vacuum-­sealed bundle has simply been launched to the Worldwide Area Station.

It’s an surprising sight, one which displays the rising pleasure inside the Southeast Asian house sector. And whereas there’s some uncertainty about how precisely the area’s house sector might evolve, there’s loads of optimism, too. Learn the total story.

—Jonathan O’Callaghan

This story is from the subsequent print problem of MIT Know-how Evaluate journal. In case you haven’t already, subscribe now to obtain future points as soon as they land.

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