Seven months after a wave of suicide bombs sucked the life out of Sri Lanka’s tourism sector, winter holidaymakers have returned to reclaim the empty shores along the southern coast of the South…
Sri Lanka sets 5-year economic development target to achieve prosperity
Sri Lanka’s new government headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has set a five-year economic development target to guide the country towards a prosperous future. The target includes achieving …
Boom in manufacturing and e-commerce boosts Vietnam warehousing
Demand from Vietnam’s booming manufacturing and e-commerce sectors has created a spike in warehousing rents and occupancy across the country. John Campbell, national head of industrial at Savills Viet…
Vietnam’s Auction Plan for Solar Energy
Vietnam’s electricity demand has been the second-largest in Southeast Asia since 2015 and is expected to retain this position in 2020. However, only 0.5 percent of excess capacity in the electric syst…
Saving the Mekong With Floating Solar Power
For two decades or more, alarms have been sounding for the Mekong Delta. It is being hammered by climate change, by a proliferation of upstream dams, by unsustainable and inappropriate farming practic…
Laos, FAO review climate change adaptability project
The Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have reviewed the Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) project, …
Why sustainable tourism makes sense
Many struggle to understand why Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat chose to make sustainable tourism the centerpiece agenda of the Department of Tourism (DOT). They argue that our visitor count is stil…
GRI introduces eco-friendly solid rubber tires
Specialty tire maker GRI’s R&D team has developed an eco-friendly version of its high-performance Ultimate XT solid tire. Working in collaboration with a team of scientists from the Department of…
Cambodia joins Vietnamese programme for agri cooperation
Cambodia has sent representatives to attend a Vietnamese programme that seeks to strengthen the relationship between them and the agricultural sectors of Vietnam and Laos, Vietnamese media reported. F…
Bangladesh a promising destination for FDI
Bangladesh is one of the promising economies with a large domestic market, labour at competitive prices, low utility charges, seaports, long-term tax holiday and easy access to largest regional market…