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On the morning of July 7, 2026, a shipping container declared to contain tin ore caught fire shortly after offloading at Port Klang, Malaysia. After firefighters doused the flames, they pried open the...

24 Jul 2026

In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste. The country has rules to control e-wa...

18 Jun 2026

On 15 July 1926, the coastal city of Bombay received a new, convenient means of public transport: a big, bright red motor bus. A century later, these buses throng the congested streets of what is now ...

25 Aug 2026

First Gen’s EDC geothermal unit recognised at 2026 Asean RE Project Awards for contribution to national renewable energy priority

Pasay City – First Gen Corporation subsidiary Bac-Man Geothermal, Inc. (BGI), the owner and operator of the 197.27-megawatt (MW) Bac-Man geothermal power plant in Bicol, received a special...

13 Oct 2026

Chinese shipyards are dominating global orders for greener vessels, but uncertainty over global regulations and cost premiums of low-carbon fuels could leave new ships without enough clean fuel to run...

29 Sep 2026

Malaysia said it has intercepted a massive shipment of illegal electronic waste (e-waste) at Port Klang just weeks after imposing a nationwide ban on such imports. The country has in recent ye...

23 Feb 2026

Malaysia's anti-corruption body have detained the country's top environment officials to assist in investigations into alleged irregularities involving electronic waste (e-waste). Among those detained...

3 Feb 2026

Malaysia has imposed an absolute ban on the import of electronic waste (e-waste), effective 4 February, as part of stricter measures to prevent the entry of hazardous waste into the country. The count...

5 Feb 2026

At a traffic signal in New Delhi, an electric SUV can wait beside an e-rickshaw and a delivery worker on an electric scooter. All three may be counted as evidence of the same green transition, althoug...

14 Aug 2026

Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has made significant progress in electric vehicle (EV) adoption, with a growing number of sales and charging stations. However, the gap between early movers and sl...

3 Aug 2026

“The rising fuel cost keeps eating into my income,” says 60-year-old Ramsurat, an app-based cab driver in New Delhi. Ramsurat first felt the pinch back in the 90s, when he was a young truck driver in ...

17 Jun 2026

UN-backed initiative puts Bangkok youth at the center of city’s electric mobility shift

Bangkok youth brought their ideas on inclusive electric mobility to the United Nations this week, as 17 student finalists of the Empower E-Mobility Challenge, a&nbs...

11 Mar 2026

South Korea’s Chungnam province said it will move ahead with a demonstration project to produce synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) from captured carbon dioxide, after the scheme cleared a nat...

3 Dec 2025

South Korean tech giants are among the top firms globally that generated the most revenue growth from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom last year, found a new report. Tech giant Samsung Electronic...

6 May 2026

In a dim room off a crowded alley in northeast Delhi, Shahjahan sits on the floor peeling wires with a knife. Her two children sort copper beside her, taking care to avoid tripping on scrap when they...

3 Dec 2025

India is the world's third-largest producer of electronic waste like computer chips and batteries, known as e-waste, according to UN figures released last year. Now the country wants to use its growi...

22 Oct 2025

At years old, Yeasmin Begum has lived near the Amin Bazar landfill on the outskirts of Dhaka her whole life. She says the stench often triggers allergies, including colds and coughing. “Sometimes it i...

23 Sep 2026

A new investigation by waste advocacy group Basel Action Network (BAN) has uncovered what it calls a “hidden tsunami” of electronic waste exports from the United States to Asia, raising serious concer...

27 Oct 2025

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