Cambodians flock to mine-infested border
Western Cambodia is peppered with anti-personnel mines. Source: Wikimedia
Landmine clearance teams in Cambodia say their task to make development sustainable is becoming more urgent...
NGO fears Lao hydropower impact
The Theun-Hinboun dam in Laos. Vientiane is waking up to the reality of the nation’s hydropower potential. Source: Wikimedia
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has...
S’pore drivers’ loans on rise
Car ownership remains popular among Singaporeans. Source: Flickr
Singaporean car buyers are taking out bigger financing loans following an easing of vehicle-loan curbs since May...
Asean’s plastic shame
Multilateral firms are polluting oceans by selling goods packaged in plastic to the Philippines, Indonesia and their neighbours, Greenpeace argues. It singled out Nestle,...
Singapore faces plastic crisis
Singaporeans use on average 1.6 plastic bags a day and their production uses enough petrol in a year to drive 8,555 cars around the...
Indonesia orangutan faces extinction as court rejects dam challenge
Indonesian environmentalists have lost a court challenge to a Chinese-backed dam project on Sumatra that could destroy the Batang Toru forest habitat of the...
The Philippine transportation system is unimaginably awful
THE Philippines has long been left out when it comes to modernizing its public transport system as compared with its neighboring Asian countries Malaysia...
Activist to join Duterte cabinet
Environmentalist Gina Lopez. Source: Flickr
The Philippines’ president-elect, Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened to cancel mining projects that cause environmental damage after an anti-mining activist accepted...
Jakarta’s religious card
The future of one of the world's largest cities, Jakarta, lies in the balance. As ethnicity and religion have been increasingly exploited, the colossal...
Jakarta to buy out mine
The Indonesian government plans to acquire Rio Tinto’s 40-per-cent participating interest in the huge Grasberg copper mine in the unstable province of Papua.
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