An new art exhibition in Phnom Penh featuring works by Cambodian and foreign artists will raise questions about plastic use and recycling, through woodcarvings, illustrations and even a motorbike
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How indigenous ‘vigilante’ grandfathers protect forest life
A group of elders, frustrated with state response, protect forest from looting against backdrop of rising deforestation.
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Lao think tank tackles plan to maximize value of Laos-China railway
The Lao government’s top economic research agency has suggested that investment focus in areas that would make use of and maximize the benefits of the Laos-China railway.
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Offshore waste disposal laws need improving: experts
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Seminar talks marine planning, coastal ecosystems in Mekong Delta
The Delta’s marine economic activities have not yet been harmoniously associated with social development and environmental protection.
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Is the race to the bottom over?
Everybody speaks about a ‘race to the bottom’ in the world of work. For brick workers enduring debt-bondage in Cambodia the race might already be over.
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Meet the ‘vigilante’ grandfathers protecting indigenous forest life in Cambodia
At the edge of a forest on the northern plains of Cambodia, an indigenous community is building its own security system.
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New forest monitoring system to help fight climate change
Wants to measure its success at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and carbon stocks preservation (REDD+).
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China helps Myanmar top LDC investment chart
Myanmar attracted the most foreign direct investment of any of the world’s LDCs in 2017, even though it was forcing the expulsion of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
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Don’t Buy into China’s Belt and Road Rhetoric
But the danger of over-worrying is to make it the top concern, and thus give BRI a status it hasn’t earned.