While the world’s attention is focused on China’s losing battle to clean up its air pollution, Vietnam’s own turmoil is also coming into view.
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Wildlife crime becomes more serious in Vietnam
Measures to combat wildlife trafficking fail in Vietnam as many people still believe consuming endangered wildlife products is good for their health.
China’s ban on trash imports shifts waste crisis to Southeast Asia
Across Southeast Asia, recyclers operating in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia have been overwhelmed by the sheer volume that China once easily absorbed.
Collapsed Lao dam ‘was built on a sinkhole’
Laos has kept the true scale of the disaster under wraps because it would jeopardize dozens of other dams envisaged under its plan to be the “Battery of Southeast Asia.”
EEC threat to water resources
Even without rapid investment in the EEC, Thailand’s flagship development project, core provinces such as Chon Buri and Rayong are already suffering chronic water shortages.
Flippers to freedom: Myanmar’s baby sea turtles face danger on all fronts in their struggle to live
Trawler nets, illegal dynamite fishing, sand dredging and marine pollution have had a devastating effect on turtle populations
PM mulls canal plan but army brooks no delay
According to Gen Thawatchai, a group of Chinese investors have reached a deal with the Thai Canal Authority to support the project.
Wind, Sun to Strand $60 Billion of Coal Assets in Southeast Asia
As more of that cheaper solar and wind generation is added in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, coal plants will go idle more often and struggle to generate revenue needed to repay their loans.
Laos: China is Building, West is Destroying and Spreading Nihilism
(Opinion) It is one of those complex stories that are so difficult to tell, and yet they should, they have to be shared.
“I feel helpless and useless” – struggles since Lao dam collapse
Three months since the dam failure cut a path of destruction through 13 villages, many communities are finally able to move into government-built temporary housing.