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Indonesia arrests hundreds linked to forest fires
Associated Press, Published on 19/09/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesian police said Thursday that they have arrested 230 people suspected of starting fires that are spreading health-damaging haze across a large part of Southeast Asia.
Anupong: Boys may have to dive from cave
Associated Press, Published on 03/07/2018
» MAE SAI: Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda said Tuesday that heavy rains forecast for the coming days could worsen floods in the cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were located after an exhaustive search, and could force authorities to speed up their extraction by having them dive their way out.
Why cave search is so tricky
News, Associated Press, Published on 29/06/2018
» A team of Thai football players --12 boys aged 11-16 and their coach -- have been missing inside a flooded cave in the country's far north since Saturday. Rescuers led by elite navy divers have found signs of the boys inside but have been unable to locate them. Here's a look at what's complicating the search:
Anupong: Rescue success hinges on drainage
Associated Press, Published on 26/06/2018
» MAE SAI, Chiang Rai: Intensive efforts to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand for three days hinge on pumping out water so that navy divers have headroom to operate, Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda said on Tuesday.
Orangutan forest being logged despite Indonesian govt vow
Associated Press, Published on 05/06/2018
» JAKARTA: Environmentalists say a tropical forest that's home to critically endangered orangutans on Borneo island is being logged more than a year after Indonesia's forestry and environment ministry ordered a halt to the forest's exploitation.
New dam in Cambodia 'would destroy Mekong'
Associated Press, Published on 18/05/2018
» A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River's biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government.
Greenpeace: Paper giant cut forests during conservation pact
Associated Press, Published on 16/05/2018
» Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world's largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.
Fukushima 'must do more' to reduce radioactive water
Associated Press, Published on 08/03/2018
» TOKYO: A government-commissioned group of experts concluded Wednesday that a costly underground ice wall is only partially effective in reducing the ever-growing amount of contaminated water at Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, and said other measures are needed as well.
Indonesia pulp giant tied to firms accused of fires
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» JAKARTA: Despite its denials, one of the world's biggest paper producers has extensive behind-the-scenes ties and significant influence over wood suppliers linked to fires and deforestation that have degraded Indonesia's stunning natural environment, The Associated Press has found.
1.25m South Sudanese one step from famine, says UN
Associated Press, Published on 08/12/2017
» UNITED NATIONS: Over 1.2 million people in war-torn South Sudan are one step away from famine -- twice as many as at the same time last year -- and in early 2018 half the country's population will be reliant on emergency food aid, the UN humanitarian chief said Thursday.