Vietnam’s $9.3 billion Can Gio Tourist City was recently approved for construction within the buffer zone of a UNESCO Mangrove Biosphere Reserve in Ho Chi Minh City.
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US And Mekong Cooperation For Sustainability
The Chinese seek to exert influence that would undermine best practices and principles while the US emphasizes sovereignty, transparency and good governance.
The unseen human cost of cheap power
Thai consumers should think about the victims and survivors of the devastating 2018 Lao dam collapse when looking at their electricity bills.
Victory for determination
Recently announced that 3,148 kilometres of coastline in Thailand would be a “coastal erosion protection zone” and seawall constructions would be largely forbidden.
The next steps for Vietnam’s booming solar sector
Despite the challenges caused by COVID-19, Vietnam’s tentative target of increasing solar PV capacity to 12 gigawatts by 2030 remains highly achievable.
Enhancing Vietnam’s environmentally-friendly production and consumption
80 percent of cities and provinces and 70 percent of industrial parks and traditional craft villages will have their awareness raised about sustainable production and consumption.
Kind words not enough
It is now time for China to back its kind words about enduring friendship with action and enable a mechanism for co-management of the river.
Thailand tiger footage offers renewed hope for big cat population (video)
Renewed hope for Asia’s wild tiger population with images from camera traps recording tiger cubs in Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai (DPKY) forest.
To dig or not to dig: The controversy surrounding Thailand’s mega canal
Mega-development, mega-devastation or both? A massive canal proposed through Southern Thailand’s biodiversity hotspots has many questioning Thailand’s commitment to sustainability.
Nature takes back seat in push for toilets
Well, how can I complain? I live in a city where policymakers see trees, nature, and even people, as obstacles to infrastructure development. Most of the time, they simply place form over function.