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Interview with Ragnar Lyng, Director Aqualyng

Q: You have developed a new technology for transforming salt water into fresh water. Could you tell us how it all started? In the mid-1990s, the founder of the Lyng Group and Aqualyng –– the now late Bjorn Lyng –– started work on the spectacular Anfi Del Mar resort hotel in the Canary Islands. He was happy with neither the quality nor the price of the water supplied by the local municipality and, in his typical entrepreneur spirit, thought:…

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Interview with Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Q. Dr Supachai, you have a long and impressive career in both the national and international sphere. Which do you consider as being the most challenging? I think that both my national and international careers have been highly challenging in different ways. When I was working for the government in Thailand, we were faced with more immediate challenges: how to engage in agricultural development; how to achieve agricultural price stability; regional integration; and trying to deal with the financial…

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