Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been missing for nearly three days and the already massive search and rescue operation is being intensified all the time. It will be expanded even further in […]
No trace of the Malaysian Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 48 hours has been found and the search and rescue operation has been intensified. Radar readings suggest that […]
Updated article A new scorecard that ranks the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors shows that 24 of them have […]
The US-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has analysed the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors and found that 24 […]
Residents of the last remaining urban village in central Kuala Lumpur want their 115-year-old heritage protected. Kampong Bharu is the last bastion against high-rise development in the centre of the Malaysian capital, […]
The palm oil sector was the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia between 2009 and 2011, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s forest loss, Greenpeace International has revealed in […]
Melaka – or Malacca as it was previously known – is one of Malaysia’s jewels, a small town on the western side of the peninsula that, in 2008, was declared a UNESCO […]
Sea cucumbers are a popular delicacy throughout Asia. On the international market, they sell for hundreds of US dollars a kilo, but Indonesian divers who supply them earn as little as 20 […]
The slash-and-burn haze that blanketed areas of Sumatra and also shrouded Singapore and western Malaysia last month is spreading again. Singapore is being spared for the moment, but, in Malaysia, areas of […]
Greenpeace International today released new photographic and satellite evidence of peatland fires in and around the palm oil concession areas of Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) members operating in the Indonesian […]
The haze from slash-and-burn fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has now spread to southern Thailand. Several districts in Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun provinces were blanketed in smog this morning (Tuesday). […]
As fires rage on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the resulting haze continues to blanket large areas of Malaysia, Greenpeace International has called on palm oil and pulp and paper companies […]
Western Malaysia is shrouded in a dangerous haze caused by illegal slash-and-burn fires on timber and oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia. There is a state of emergency in the worst affected […]
