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  • Bangkok incinerator to fire up next year
    Apr 22 2013

    Hong Kong-based C&G Environmental Protection Holdings Co has said its 900-million-baht incinerator in Thailand will be operational in mid-2014.

    Located in Nong Khaem district, west of Bangkok, the incinerator is near the landfill area of 30 rai.

    It has a daily capacity to handle 500 tonnes of waste, or 5% of Bangkok's daily volume of 9,400 tonnes.

    C&G was rewarded a 20-year build-operate-transfer concession from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in July...

  • Thailand: PCD finalises plan on Mae Sot clean-up
    Apr 12 2013

    The Pollution Control Department (PCD) has finished drafting a plan to clean up several tracts of land in Tak's Mae Sot district contaminated with cadmium.

    The plan will be submitted to the National Environment Board (NEB) for approval next month, PCD chief Wichien Jungrungruang said.

    Cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, was detected in three tambons in early 2004 by foreign scientists from the International Water Management Institute.

    They found that several hundred villagers...

  • UK in court on air pollution levels
    Mar 7 2013

    The government admits air quality laws will be breached in 15 regions until 2020.

    Londoners will have to wait until 2025 for pollution to enter legal limits.

    Pollution levels in affected areas are a health risk to people on many of Britain’s busiest streets, especially those with heart or lung problems.

    The government says the laws are unrealistically strict.

    The BBC understands that it also believes the European Commission is partly to blame because it did not...

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Fight on to keep Cambodian dam from turning pristine paradise into 'death valley'
Apr 22 2013

Recognised internationally as a natural treasure of biodiversity, Cambodia's Central Cardamom Protected Forest faces mounting pressure from agricultural clearance and infrastructure projects. Now an unlikely alliance of Buddhist monks, students and farmers has started to speak out against the...

Thailand water diversion project under fire
Apr 21 2013

Activists have voiced their opposition to Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi's plan to divert water from the Salween and Mekong rivers to feed the water-starved Northeast. The proposed projects are not the right solution to the drought problem in the region, they said.

Mr...

Pipeline EIA approval broke law, says Thai judge
Mar 27 2013

he approval of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the Thai-Malaysian gas pipeline in Songkhla 12 years ago was illegal, a Supreme Administrative Court judge said Tuesday.

However, judge Panuphan Chairat stopped short of ordering the revocation of the pipeline's permit, as...

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  • Thailand: PCD seeks measures to combat toxic waste
    Apr 30 2013

    The Pollution Control Department (PCD) will propose measures to Cabinet to strictly control the movement of hazardous industrial waste - after discovering the illegal transfer of 30 million tonnes of waste from manufacturers to unknown destinations.

    PCD director-general Wichien Jungrungruang said the agency was drafting strict proposals to control hazardous industrial waste management and trans-boundary movement to try to stop illegal dumping of toxic waste.

    Under these...

  • Greening Governance in Asia-Pacific
    Aug 6 2012

    Once every two years, IGES releases a white paper focusing on key policy agendas in the Asia-Pacific region. The Fourth IGES White Paper, entitled "Greening Governance in Asia-Pacific" examines innovative approaches to governance and institutions that have emerged from the region and recommends governance arrangements and policy solutions to accelerate the transition to a green economy, and argues that, without significant governance reform in Asia-Pacific, global sustainable development...

  • AECEN support Indonesia efforts to prepare new guidelines on public participation and the environment
    Jul 20 2012

    On July 10-11, 2012, the Indonesia Ministry of Environment (MOE) conducted a workshop on Strengthening Public Participation on Environmental Management in Indonesia. Co-organized with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), about 100 participants from government agencies, NGOs, academia and the private sector shared ideas on the Public Participation Guide developed by USEPA and the application of public participation principles in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA...

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Malaysia

Established in 1975, the Department of Environment (DOE) of Malaysia is responsible for the prevention, control and abatement of pollution in the country through the enforcement of the Environmental Quality Act of 1974 and its subsidiary legislation.

The agency is guided by the vision to conserve the uniqueness, diversity and quality of the environment with the objective of maintaining health, prosperity, security and well-being for present and future generations. It defines its mission as promoting,...

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Featured Good Practice

Use of Effluent Charges in Malaysia's Palm Oil Industry
Dec 12 2009

Malaysia is one of the countries to first introduce effluent charge system, specifically for palm oil and rubber mills. In 1977, the country’s Department of Environment (DOE) announced discharge standards for BOD on palm oil effluent. Prior to the introduction of the regulation, crude palm oil was the single worst pollution source in the country. Daily discharge alone increased by more than 300% from 1965 to 1977. The aim of the regulation was to reduce pollution created by the sector without hampering its growth.

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