Melaka

Anant Bhan, a public health researcher at Melaka Manipal Medical College in southern India, said the advantage of health workers living within the community has helped India deal with enormous gaps in delivering health services in the remotest corners of the country.

The ramp-up includes four new centres to the North Indian town of Zirakpur, and three new flexible workspaces in the coastal city of Melaka in Malaysia, as employees explore the mix of working at home or nearby and commuting.

Dark and floral, with notes of butterscotch and smoke, palm sugar, or gula melaka, is the choice sweetener in most, if not all, of Malaysia's desserts.

Local classics like cendol, shaved ice with pandan jelly, glutinous rice pastries called ondeh-ondeh, and the pearled tapioca pudding known as sago gula melaka use this sugar to great effect.

The results this week could alleviate some of those concerns, said Dr. Anant Bhan, a health researcher at Melaka Manipal Medical College in southern India.