Climate security in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional
Myanmar
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Pipped to the post
India loses Myanmar s natural gas to China, well almost
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Bad investment
A recent environment impact report has called upon all foreign investors to stop plans to build dams on the Salween river in Myanmar. The report
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Trading deforestation
How China’s growing wood imports are affecting its neighbours
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The salutary influence of irrigation on human settlement, economy and political power in pre-modern southeast Asia
The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia.
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Conservation corridors
Asia to have its first cross country linkages of fragmented habitats
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Common heritage
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a global biodiversity hotspot and contains a number of "Global 200 ecoregions' identified globally by WWF. Much of the area, especially along the Greater Annamite Mountains, is biologically unexplored. The climate, geology and ecology of the six GMS countries are very similar. The countries share three large rivers
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South Asia
tsunami Answerability: Sri Lanka's president Chandrika Kumaratunga has got an inquiry initiated into the government's failings in averting the destruction caused by the tsunami waves on December 26,
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Vietnam
Safe Shrimps Antibiotics are good in medicines but not in shrimps. The government insists "there is no trace of the antibiotic nitrofuran in its shrimp exports to the European Union (eu).'
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Logjam
Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work hard to defeat every good intention. The apex court imposed an interim ban on felling in forests on December 1
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The accused
Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats