Environment ministers of Korea, Japan and China yesterday agreed to boost cooperation among the three countries to prevent further environmental pollution in Far East Asia. "We shared the view that

India and Brazil have proposed limiting the scope of the environmental panel of the World bank to see whether bank guidelines are being followed by the Bank-aided countries.Both the coutnries, led by

The litigation involving polluting mills in the capital has turned into a bitter struggle for real estate between some textile mills, the governemnt and the workers. The Supreme Court had ordered the

A judge was urged not to impose a heavy fine on a port authority that earlier admitted responsibility for the pollution caused by the grounding of the tanker Sea Empress off the coast of south Wales.

Krabi people seeking an emergency order to stop filming of The Beach in Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi Lei left court defeated again yesterday. The Civil Court threw out their second request in as many

Officials and specialists from regional scientific and technological urban construction administrations met in Guanghan, China yesterday to study advanced garbage treatment and utilization

The Chandigarh Administration today banned use of polythene carry bags in the market complex of Sector 17 with a view to protecting the health of people and animals and improve the environment of the

The United States and three Lain American countries have signalled they will resist the speedy creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel on their banana row with the European Union,

Anhui Province in east China is set to improve the water quality of Chaohu Lake, around which are 109 enterprises, each of them producing more than 100 tons of waste water every day. All the

China has used overseas funds of close to 4.7 billion US dollars for environmental protection projects over the past three years. The 4.7 billion dollars actually used by the end of last year