Viet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City is creating favourable conditions for investors to reuse and recycle garbage to produce electricity, according to Nguyễn Thành Phong, Chairman of the city People’s Committee. The official made his announcement last week while visiting a plant that recycles garbage to produce electricity Read more…
WE, Filipinos, never really learn that the garbage we throw carelessly into the streets eventually retard the flow of rainwater along creeks and rivers, through pumping stations, and into the Manila Bay or Laguna de Bay. The consequence is flooding, particularly in Metro Manila, that results in damage to property Read more…
Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies. Illustrating the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural industry to spikes in temperature, the Read more…
India is the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. A new campaign seeks to make new housing developments sustainable by 2022 to help the country meet its ambitious climate goals. India’s top builders have pledged to make at least a fifth of their new housing developments Read more…
TAIPEI: The bearded deity Guan Yu, flanked by other deities who represent righteousness, brotherhood and victory in war, presides over worshippers who kneel before his altar at the Xingtian Temple. But devotees at the prayer grounds in the heart of Taipei’s Zhongshan district do not pay respects to the Taoist Read more…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) issued an advance notification Tuesday for a draft amendment to the Marine Pollution Control Act that will increase the maximum fine for marine pollution from NT$1.5 million (US$50,100) to NT$300 million. The EPA is drafting the amendment after it carried out reviews Read more…
It is easy to spot a foreigner in Hanoi. Cowering at intersections, staring in awe as the traffic hurtles past, tourists wait for a break in the flow of motorcycles, bicycles, carts, cars and buses – or for a kind driver to stop and bestow them the right of way Read more…
MUI NE, Vietnam — An afternoon swim in the South China Sea along the southeast coast of Vietnam is not the pleasant experience a visitor might expect. Amid rainbow-colored fishing boats, plastics, of all sizes and forms, bob in emerald waters. Hotel resort beaches are cleaned meticulously, but it is an Read more…
SINGAPORE – From next month (Aug 1), the National Environment Agency (NEA) will begin licensing general waste-disposal facilities. This comes as the number of such facilities has steadily increased over the years, due to a rise in the volume of waste. There are now more than 300 general waste-disposal facilities Read more…
India’s holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge on its journey through burgeoning cities, industrial hubs and past millions of devotees. Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, “Mother Read more…