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A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule and a Japanese ophthalmologist who led an effort to treat thousands of Vietnamese villagers were among those selected for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other…
JAKARTA The Citarum River that skirts the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, is infamous as the most polluted river on Earth. The rivers inside Jakarta aren’t in much better state, either, with a new study showing that most of the waste collected from the city’s rivers is plastic. Plastic accounted for 74% and 87% of the […]
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A Southeast Asia environment agency is finding ways to help manage plastic waste entering the world’s rivers as it celebrated Earth Day 2022 on April 22. The Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (Pemsea) released a set of five studies under Project Aseano, a three-year initiative…