The World Air Quality Report released early last month concluded that Hanoi had the second worst air quality in Southeast Asia.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Thailand prepares masks for ASEAN meeting due to air pollution
Thailand is preparing face masks for an upcoming regional finance minister and central bank summit after pollution shot air quality to alarming levels, an official said on Tuesday.
Questions remain as Vietnam reaches major REDD+ milestone
echnically this means results-based payments for forest-related carbon reductions can be rolled out, but there is no framework for such a system yet.
Plastic No More! Supermarket Adopts Banana Leaves for Packaging
A supermarket in Thailand has replaced its plastic packaging with banana leaf wrapping.
Islands in Vietnam struggle to deal with ‘mountains’ of waste
Many islands in Vietnam suffer from serious pollution, but no solution has been found to solve the problem.