November 6, 2025
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a ban on petrol-powered motorbikes in Hanoi, effective July 1, 2026 (AP). Pursuant to the adoption of the Paris Agreement and Vitenam’s pledge of net-zero emissions by 2050, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are tackling air emissions and the worsening pollution of fossil-fuel motorbikes (MAE II). Major […]
August 19, 2022
This article was published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. Too big to fail is an expression principally associated with unstable financial institutions. During the 2008 financial crisis, the Bush Administration […]
April 22, 2020
New research shows that China’s Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a damaging drought in Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (NY Times). The findings by Eyes on Earth Inc, a research and consulting company specializing in, were published in a US-government funded study (Bangkok Post). The drought, which saw the […]
