Environmental degradation in Asia could impose an onerous burden on its people

Asian policymakers need to invest in

• The Asian continent suffers from serious problems in the areas of urban environmental degradation, industrial pollution, atmospheric emissions and loss of habitat among others •

Occupationally linked health problems plague Thai workers

An entire gamut of environmental

Statistics is only one part of the story. The grime combined with apathetic governments and poverty in certain parts of Asia and the craze to rapidly industrialise makes for an epic by itself. Environment mostly figures way down the list of official pri