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

It’s a scorching October day in Bangkok and I’m wandering by means of the reveals on the Thai Area Expo, held in one of many metropolis’s busiest purchasing 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 instructed the identical form of vacuum-­sealed bundle has simply been launched to the Worldwide Area Station.

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

—Jonathan O’Callaghan

This story is from the following print concern of MIT Expertise Overview journal. Should you haven’t already, subscribe now to obtain future points as soon as they land.

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