In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Ramky International (Singapore) Private Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CITENCO, State-owned environmental and sanitation company of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam to work together on a waste management project. CITENCO and Ramky will jointly own and develop …
West Bengal has completed culling of chicken after a spate of unnatural bird deaths reported in some poultry farms in Nadia district's Tehatta block. While it has been confirmed that the organism infecting the birds is the H5 strain of influenza, it is still not known if it is the …
India is being pulled into a complex and increasingly tense territorial dispute in the South China Sea, with China repeatedly warning ONGC, the Indian state oil company, that its joint exploration plans with Vietnam amount to a violation of Chinese sovereignty. The Indian government responded to the latest Chinese warnings …
As External Affairs Minister SM Krishna headed to Hanoi, India and China appeared on a collision course over Beijing’s objection to ONGC Videsh Limited’s (OVL) plans to undertake oil exploration in two Vietnamese blocks in the South China Sea. “Our cooperation with Vietnam or any other country is always as …
Heavy rains and flooding since the weekend killed six people, destroyed thousands of hectares of crops and damaged homes in Vietnam’s north and central regions, the government said Wednesday. Among the dead was a child buried in a landslide in Lao Cai province bordering China, it said. More than 72,000 …
Scientists have discovered three previously unknown bat species in southern Indochina, reports Fauna & Flora International. Researchers from Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI) described the new species, which belong to a group known as tube-nosed bats. One of the species, found in Vietnam and …
With the UN body FAO issuing warning on possible resurgence of bird flu in Asia, the Government today said it is fully prepared to deal with any eventuality arising out of the outbreak of avian influenza. “A few reports have come out in the press mentioning an FAO alert against …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the deadly bird flu, which first appeared in 2003, is rearing its head again in Asia and other countries. The organisation has said that there are signs of a mutant strain of H5NI spreading and urged heightened readiness and surveillance against …
The United Nations warned of a possible major resurgence of bird flu and said a mutant strain of the H5N1 virus was spreading in Asia and elsewhere. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday urged increased surveillance and preparation for a potential outbreak of the virus, which it …
The United Nations has warned of a possible major resurgence of bird flu and said a mutant strain of the H5N1 virus is spreading in Asia and elsewhere. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation on Monday said countries that could face the biggest problems were Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Indonesia and …
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic and on the occasion of the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (10th ICAAP), being held at Busan, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released a new report on the HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region. The report …
A Greenpeace investigation has discovered the toxic chemical nonylphenol ethoxylate (NPE) in clothing made by 14 major brands, including Adidas, H&M;, Converse and Abercrombie and Fitch. NPE breaks down to form nonylphenol in water, which disrupts hormone levels and has been known to cause fish to change gender. Due to …
Injecting a bacteria into mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries, scientists have found. In two papers published in the journal Nature, researchers in Australia showed how female mosquitoes infected with …
Hand, foot and mouth disease, a dangerous intestinal virus, has killed 81 children in Vietnam this year, prompting the prime minister to order ministries and agencies to redouble efforts to stop its spread. The country recorded 32,588 cases of the disease this year, and the deaths happened in 17 provinces …
Vietnam is battling to control an unusually severe outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 81 children this year and infected tens of thousands more, health officials said yesterday. About three-quarters of the more than 30,000 reported HFMD cases so far this year have occurred in children …
What inspired your journey? Teruel: I discovered electric bicycles while living in Beijing. For two-and-a-half years I used it to commute to work. In 2009, I woke up with a mind to go around the world on an electric bicycle. It was the mix of my passions—travelling and electric bicycles. …
This report provides an overview on indigenous peoples in five REDD+ countries in Asia, namely, Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand and the status of REDD+ implementation in these five countries. It also elaborates on the concerns of indigenous peoples in the current readiness phase and on national REDD+ strategies …
Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United Nations spokesman said Friday. The decision was taken at a meeting of states that have ratified the Rotterdam Convention despite the treaty's scientific …
Four men died in flash floods while fishing and two people were crushed to death in northern Vietnam as a weakening storm approached from the Gulf of Tonkin, state media said on Friday, while 11 fishermen were missing after storms in the Philippines. Rescuers in Vietnam located one body after …
Agreement may be worked out before closure of conference India maintained silence on listing of endosufan under the Rotterdam Convention at the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, which opened in Geneva on Monday. The Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous …
