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iPerformance: Electric Feel Now!
Published on 11/07/2016
» Nothing defines the iconic BMW Roundel like the spinning propeller of innovation at BMW. Leading the way into the future of the automotive world, BMW has developed the concept of ‘iPerformance’, the model designation symbolising a bold new era of sustainable mobility.
South China Seas case lights up world's oldest tribunal
AFP, Published on 10/07/2016
» THE HAGUE - The little-known Permanent Court of Arbitration on Tuesday rules on a bitter dispute over the South China Sea which could have huge international ramifications amid growing tensions in the key waterway.
Scores of environmental activists murdered in 2015: report
AFP, Published on 20/06/2016
» PARIS - At least 185 activists and indigenous people fighting environmental pillaging were murdered in 2015, the watchdog group Global Witness said on Monday.
Four arrested over activist's murder in Honduras
AFP, Published on 03/05/2016
» TEGUCIGALPA - Four people have been arrested in Honduras over the murder of a high-profile indigenous activist earlier this year, officials said.
Power on
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 04/04/2016
» Electronic sensors, cloud computing and data storage have never been cheaper, thanks to plummeting technology costs. That is helping the power industry to capitalise on scarce energy supplies and broaden access to affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity at a much lower cost.
Taking solar more seriously
News, Published on 01/02/2016
» One of the downsides to an authoritarian military government is the public has little influence on politically important issues, such as energy policy. This becomes a problem when a government decides to support building large, centralised, coal-fired power stations in the face of sustained public opposition, such as the regular protests against the proposed plants in Songhkla and Krabi.
As fuel crisis grips Nepal, solar industry eyes growth
AFP, Published on 31/01/2016
» KATHMANDU - After enduring endless blackouts in Nepal's months-long and ongoing national fuel crisis, management consultant Pankaj Shrestha finally splurged on a set of solar panels for his home in Kathmandu.
Only hope lies in ending emissions
News, Published on 03/12/2015
» In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. Many observers are asking whether these reductions are deep enough. But there is an even more important question: Will the chosen path to 2030 provide the basis for ending greenhouse-gas emissions later in the century?
Judge knocks back villagers on Laos dam
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/12/2015
» A Central Administrative Court judge has given a preliminary opinion dismissing villagers' demands to have a say in the Xayaburi hydropower dam project, on the grounds that it is not a state-owned project.
Isan villagers say gas drilling sickens them, ruins crops
Associated Press, Published on 14/09/2015
» More than 100 students and villagers crowded into a Northeast college forum to hear about American gas companies conducting drilling operations in their region. A lieutenant colonel and dozens of soldiers and police officers followed them in.