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 …
Hundreds of Vietnamese villagers ransacked a proposed titanium mining site on December 28, which they fear will pollute the soil and the ground water. Over 300 protesters destroyed machinery and pipelines at the site near the seaside of Tam Tien commune in central province of Quang Nam, say local media …
The European Commission on October 15 approved a one-year extension of anti-dumping duties on imports of energy-saving light bulbs from China, despite protests from environmentalists, leading bulb manufacturers and several member nations. Many of these European bulb manufacturers, such as Italian lighting company Targetti and the Dutch-based Philips, have their …
Dao Duy Dang remembers the night in 1963 when the lights came on in Uong Bi. "People were so excited," the 70-year-old tea-shop owner says, recalling the cheers that rang through the northern Vietnamese town after one of the country's first coal-fired power plants began operating. "Their whole lives they …
India's retail sector's estimated worth is US $350-380 billion. About US $15 billion of this is in organised retail chains. Although the retail boom in India started quite late, the growth rate in the past two years has been very high
This publication provides policy-makers and project personnel with tools to assess present energy flows and future energy scenarios. It uses a geographic information system to generate and manage data independently of political boundaries, integrating and analysing relationships among socio-economic and environmental variable and facilitates the identification of priority areas and …
As an animal high on popularity charts, the tiger has fascinated and awed generations for centuries. However, with its range confined to 14 Asian countries today, its distribution has more than halved and so have its numbers. With the tiger facing a serious challenge in its entire distribution range, the …
This study considers some aspects of the recent droughts in the Mekong region and tries to discover what could be the reasons behind them and how best they could be mitigated. The study has yielded valuable information about how communities perceive drought and climate change, and how local governments and …
As a part of major reforms for the fishery sector, 14 countries agreed to cut trawling and push net fishing to reverse the growing production of low-value
The Association of South-East Asian Nations (asean) recently signed a trade agreement with the us, which experts say will lead to more trade and investment alliances between the two regions . The agreement was signed between the us trade representative Susan Schwab and ministers of the 10 asean countries (Brunei, …
At least 104 shrimp exporters from six countries (Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand, and Vietnam) reached an agreement with the us shrimp producers to bypass the country's annual tax review. The move came after Thailand, one of the world's largest shrimp exporters, failed to persuade the us to scrap a …
A Vietnamese company recently announced that it has produced a non-toxic and environment-friendly bio-diesel from catfish oil, which can be used as an industrial fuel. It is biodegradable and has lower emission rates than diesel. An Giang Fisheries Import and Export Joint Stock Company, a seafood processing company in Mekong …
The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia. The small-scale water works, purely an outcome of local initiative which survived for many centuries and outlived the state, were developed in the dry zone of Irrawaddy …
the three million Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (ao) have received a severe judicial defeat. us district judge Jack B Weinstein dismissed their case in Brooklyn, New York, on March 10, 2005 saying that ao and similar herbicides cannot be considered poisons banned under international rules of war. Weinstein also …
No remorse: Counsel for major US chemical companies have demanded the dismissal of a civil lawsuit which claims that nearly four million Vietnamese people suffered dioxin poisoning due to the use of the defoliant Agent Orange by USsoldiers. The demand was tabled before a USdistrict court judge in Brooklyn. The …
bird flu deaths: The number of human deaths from bird flu is soaring in Asia. The recent deaths of a 35-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy in Vietnam took to nine the total number of human victims of the virus in the country since late December 2004. With this, at …
Amid news of bird flu killing 20 people in Vietnam and 12 in Thailand, Japan reported its first human infection of bird flu on December 22, 2004. The Japanese health ministry said the victim caught the infection while disinfecting a contaminated poultry farm earlier this year. Blood samples of 86 …
after more than three decades of denial, a high-level parliamentary committee of New Zealand has acknowledged that Vietnam war veterans were exposed to Agent Orange, the powerful herbicide, defoliant and chemical used by the us military. New Zealand's soldiers aided us troops in the Vietnam war. This is the first …
