Electric scooters hit the streets in HCMC, but just 30,000 in the first year from a factory whose capacity is one million units annually.
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Human Rights Watch Condemns Lao Government for Continued Detention of Elderly Landowner Over Property Dispute
“Wherever land grabbing takes place in Laos, villagers owning land who resist face being jailed, showing yet again how the Lao government abuses the human rights of villagers on lands the government requires.”
Burma’s Indigenous Karen communities move to protect rivers and forests
“In the past, it was cooler because we had many big trees,” said Kyaw Blar, a villager from Ta Deh Koh village. “It’s all plain area now… it is hotter now.”
Chinese Mega-Project in Myanmar’s Kayin State Sparks Resentment And Worry
“It’s because this (US$ 15 billion) city is being built against the wishes of the local people — the Karen people. There are other indigenous people as well in this region.”
UN Urges Southeast Asian Countries to Get Tough on Plastic Pollution
Southeast Asia—home to more than 655 million people across 11 countries—needs to introduce region-wide policies to regulate plastic packaging says new UN report.
Thailand joins EU in bid to tackle marine litter
The project will be implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Expertise France (EF), with a budget of 10 million euros.
Fishing nets killing dolphins in the Mekong
Illegal fishing practices along the Mekong River in Cambodia were the main reason behind the unusually high number of Irrawaddy dolphin deaths in the area.
Fishermen’s friends: Irrawaddy dolphins under threat in Myanmar
A social business runs 1-3 day trips from Mandalay into the heart of rural Myanmar – profits ploughed back into seven cooperative fishing communities the company works with, and towards protecting the dolphins.