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As international UN trade restrictions on endangered Siam rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) came into effect (June 12, 2013), the London-based Environmental Investigation Age...

September 29 has proved to be a major day for forests as 183 countries at the CITES 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) agreed to boost protection for dalbergia rosewoods. Th...

At the seventeenth session the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC), member countries requested FAO to implement a study of the efficacy of removing natural forests from timb...

According to the U.N. FAO, 48.3% or about 31,773,000 ha of Myanmar is forested, according to FAO. Of this 10.0% ( 3,192,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodivers...

The article quotes some extracts from a report of Mr. Truong Duc Tri, Deputy Director of Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change - Ministry of Natural Resources ...

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert ...

Deputy General Director of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Center said that comparing with the suburbs, the temperature in the urban Hanoi is 0.5-3 degrees Celsius ...

This website lists the existing IPP Hydropower Projects MOU's and the 20 Project Development Agreements issued by the Laos Ministry of Energy and Mines.

This press release is about the US $25 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Lao PDR strengthen its road maintenance systems and improve ro...

International business transactions have increased dramatically over the years. Investment has increasingly expanded at an unprecedented rate in many countries. These internati...

This is the third in a series of reports on illegal logging in Burma. It is based on field research carried out between 2005 and 2009 in Kachin State, along the Burma-China bord...

This web page provides information about UNICEF's Water and Sanitation Program in Laos. UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme supports Lao PDR to achieve Mille...

Forestry in Thailand is constrained by several factors. Coincident with Thailand's rapid economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s, its forest resources became severely depleted. L...

This is a country case study for Thailand from a publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific “What does i...

National Geographic Piece under the Planet or Plastic series. Article summary: Eighty shopping bags and other plastic debris clogged the animal’s stomach, making it unable to eat.

Brief summary of SDG 6 by UNDP Thailand.

This media article discusses about the Lao PDR's government that has agreed in principle to a plan to build a 14-km expressway linking Vientiane city centre to the outskirts in ...

Laos is a pilot country of the Forest Investment Program (FIP), a targeted programme of the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF), which is one of two funds within the framework of the W...

The media article discusses the contract that Giant Rail Company Limited signed a with a Lao company to install railway route corridor posts for a planned line linking Laos’ c...

Official development assistance (ODA) has helped Vietnam to build the foundation to attract other resources in the country's construction over the past 20 years. But the situati...