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Twenty years ago, former paramount leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, visited the country's Southeast coast.
“Busong” was named one of the top 10 Asian films by the Asian Wall Street Journal – where it was described as film “small in scale, but big in impact.”
The remote 200,000-hectares of Prey Lang Forest is arguably the Amazon of Cambodia.
China has often been criticized by the international community for putting profit before environmental protection.
The Burmese government is spending 4 percent of this year’s budget on education, a two-fold increase from last year.
Indonesia is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases and lags far behind its Asian neighbors when it comes to garbage disposal and recycling.
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The victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy are urging the Indian government to boycott the 2012 Olympic Games.
One of the Games’ sponsors is the US-based Dow Chemicals – the company that now ow...
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The remote province of Aurora is a promising tourism destination in the Philippines – blessed with natural attractions and historical sights.
But activists and locals are worried about its futu...
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Cambodia’s Amazon under threat: The remote 200,000-hectares of Prey Lang Forest is arguably the Amazon of Cambodia. Home to the indigenous Kouy people, “Prey Lang” means “our forest”. Last year, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen approved a 9,000-hectare rubber plantation, despite its status as a protected area The deal is part of a joint business initiative between the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments, which say will improve local welfare. But a recent investigation has revealed the dirty deals made between companies and villagers, and the extent of illegal logging in the forest. Borin Noun joins the investigation team in the largest intact forest on the Indochina peninsula.
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