VIETNAM

People refuse to give in to POSCO

The multiple dangers of privately owning tigers and other big cats

Any presence of a big cat in private ownership is scientifically and morally wrong and poses challenges to human health, safety and security

How is Southeast Asia’s charge to EVs going?

Who’s leading the race to develop electric vehicles in Southeast Asia? The answer is complicated.  

Bolivia losing forest cover at alarming rate

The Philippines, Indonesia, and Peru also witness increase in deforestation, suggests NASA data

Avian flu flitting from birds to humans

Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen's human-to-human …

Vietnam targets poverty with tourism

An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages

Environmentalists petition Obama to impose sanctions on Mozambique

African country is facing allegations of colluding with poachers, resulting in killing of thousands of elephants and rhinos

The black list

India fares the worst in a survey of Asia's polluted countries

The wealth of tradition

Vietnam has taken a keen interest in tradional medicine since its independence in 1954. In the war against colonial France and later the …

New avian influenza strain in Southeast Asia ‘travelling fast’, warns FAO

In less than six months after first reported in China, the H5N6 virus has been detected in poultries in Lao and Vietnam

Vietnam

Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert

Two-thirds people in cities are not even connected to sewerage and use onsite sanitation systems or defecate in the open

High-flying disease

From now onwards we have to battle with another mysterious enemy. Since February 2003, a disease similar to influenza has 'officially' killed 48 …

On the Edge

In Vietnam, an astonishing array of species, some never before encountered by humans, are being threatened by deforestation and an illegal trade …

five to go

Peep into the past

A female Sao La belonging to a rare bovid species has been captured for scientific study in Laos's Annamite mountain range. Her discovery has …

The fish barrier

Threat to fish due to dams quantified in Mekong basin

UPDATE: Food crunch

Environment is one of wars’ greatest victims

Illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between …

A window for forest people

NTFPS-EP is a network working with adivasis on ecosystem conservation, advocacy and livelihoods

Good news stories from Vietnam’s second wave — from dragon fruit burgers to mask ATMs

Throughout the first and second waves, Vietnamese business people and ordinary citizens have been coming up with innovative ways to respond to …

Africa fights hunger with football, Vietnam aims at ‘zero hunger’ by 2025

Millions of people in Asia and Africa are undernourished and malnourished

Manganese assault

Manning the groves

Studies conducted on the Vietnamese coast reveal that mangroves are among the best defences one could put up against the ravages of the sea