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Singapore otters' lockdown antics spark backlash
SINGAPORE: Singapore's otters, long adored by the city-state's nature lovers, are popping up in unexpected places during the coronavirus lockdown but their antics have angered some and even sparked calls for a cull.
Sungai Selisek Water Treatment Plant resumes operations
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sungai Selisek Water Treatment Plant resumed operations at 2pm Friday (May 29).
Sg Selisik water treatment plant remains shut, affected areas still experiencing unscheduled water cut (updated)
KUALA LUMPUR: EIGHT areas in Hulu Selangor will continue to experience unscheduled water supply disruption due to diesel contamination at the Sungai Selisik Water Treatment Plant.
Invisible enemy at home
From Dr PRAMEELA KANNAN KUTTY Professor of Paediatrics, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia.
Indonesia starts cloud seeding to keep forest fires at bay
JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia has started cloud seeding to induce rain as the archipelago moves to head off annual forest fires blamed for blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze.
Vietnam should enhance productivity to grow, advises Word Bank
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam should focus on a productivity-driven development model to become a high-income economy by 2045, according to the latest report from the World Bank (WB).
Sg Selisik water treatment plant polluted, over 700 accounts affected
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Sungai Selisik water treatment plant was forced to stop operations at 11.45pm yesterday (May 27) due to raw water pollution following a crash involving a tanker lorry that caused diesel spill at KM389.5 of the North-South Highway near Behrang, Selangor.
Covid-19 presents Indonesia with new challenges in forest fire control
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Experts have said that Indonesia, which has struggled to curb land and forest fires in the past, might face a new challenge in mitigating fires: the Covid-19 epidemic.
China can lead green recovery, says environmental economist
LONDON (China Daily/ANN): As the nation navigates its way beyond Covid-19 at the annual two sessions, China has the opportunity to accelerate the world's response to climate change after the pandemic, according to a leading environmental economist.
The advent of face masks
As our understanding of how diseases and the germs that cause them evolved, so did the use of face coverings or masks to prevent them.