An oil tanker hit the edge of a shoal off Singapore waters, spilling 400 tonnes of oil into the sea. The mishap occured on

Dried banana stems can mop up raioactive nuclear wastes, according to scientists from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai. The inner portion of banana stems (called pith) can absorb

General agreement between the Nepal government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been recently renewed for five years. Following the first agreement between the government and WWF in May 1993,

Chinese President Jiang Zemin, touring flood-stricken Hunan province, urged vigilance along the Yangtze River and prompt housing measures for flood victims before the approach of winter, state media

The Thai-Singapore 21 Industrial Estate (TS21) will be built in an area classified as a "watershed and agricultural zone not suitable for industrial plants." The Office of Environmental Policy and

Villagers of Pluak Daeng district in Thailand recently won fame by winning a fight against the siting of a toxic waste treatment plant in their area. They put up so fierce a fight that Genco, the

The Malaysian Government is satisfied with the efforts of state governments and local authorities to minimise the effects of La Nina next month. Among the ministry's directive to all local

Officials at the Uttar Pradesh agriculture department are a harried lot today tring to work out crop losses due to the unprecedented rains that caused floods in the eastern part of the state last

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged members of her cabinet to rush to the country's villages to supervise relief and rescue operations as the worst floods in its history intensified.

There is likely to be a quantum jump in external assistance to Indian environmental protection projects in the current fiscal. As a result, the outlay for schemes to be covered under external aid