Ebbing away: Hong Kong's ivory trade
As Hong Kong moves towards the final step of a landmark ivory ban, TRAFFIC has released a report that acknowledges progress, but urges tighter regulation on privately owned ivory stocks, antique ivory
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Japan and Korea are tops in ESG
Japanese and South Korean companies have won the highest marks in Asia for “responsible” investing, which remains in its infancy in these countries, in a new survey by Eiris, an environmental research
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CM to participate in World Economic Forum at China
Bhopal : The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be on a nine day visit to Republic of China from September 12 to 20, 2011 in order to participate in the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting being
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2 tons of elephant ivory seized in Hong Kong
Hong Kong customs officers have seized a large shipment of African ivory hidden in a container that arrived by sea from Malaysia. Hong Kong government officials said Tuesday that officers found 794 pieces
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Sewage treatment works in Hong Kong
Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works is first tertiary sewage treatment plant in Hong Kong. It has been in operation since late 2005.
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Mumbai among worst cities to live in: Survey
Australia's second-largest city Melbourne has been rated the world's best city to live in, and Mumbai one of the worst, according to a new survey. In the survey of 140 cities around the globe, Melbourne
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Japanese Rice To Be Tested For Radioactive Cesium
More than a dozen regional governments in Japan will conduct tests to determine whether locally grown rice contains too much radioactive cesium, farm ministry officials said on Monday, as food safety worries
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Threat To Bears From Illegal Bile Trade Unabated: Report
Poaching and illegal trade of bears, whose bile is used in traditional medicine and folk remedies, remains robust across Asia, putting wild bear populations under unrelenting pressure, according to a report by a wildlife trade monitoring network. Products made from bile extracted from bears' gall bladders were found on sale in traditional medicine outlets in all but one of the 13 nations and te
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Pills, powders, vials & flakes: The bear bile trade in Asia
<p>Poaching and illegal trade of bears, driven largely by the demand for bile, used in traditional medicine and folk remedies continues unabated across Asia on a large scale, a report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has found.</p>
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Planning & design of sewage treatment works
<p>Ngong Ping is located on Lantau Island, the most important outlaying island of Hong Kong that is home to the famous Hong Kong Internatonal Airport and Asia's longest cable car system. Sewage discharge on Ngong Pong relied on distributed septic tanks and soakway systems that imposed severe limitations on the sewage flow that could be handled.
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Sun shines through for clean technology outsourcing
Leonora Walet HONG KONG THE $39-billion global solar energy market is growing fast, but cut-throat competition means producers must shave costs