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This aerial view on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, shows the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines, which has never produced a single watt of energy. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
ElectricityNewsNuclear Power

Southeast Asia looks to nuclear power to supercharge its energy transition

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asia’s only nuclear power plant, completed four decades ago in Bataan, about 40 miles from the Philippine capital...

Boats of fisherfolk are anchored by a floating village, by the Tonle Sap in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
BiodiversityEnvironmentNews

Tonle Sap: Cambodian fishermen turn to raising eels as lake fish stocks decline

Climate change and deforestation impacting Tonle Sap lake have led Cambodian fishermen to raise eels.

FILE- Boats cruise near barges fully loaded with coal on the Mahakam river in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)
AnalysisBusinessEconomyElectricitySolarWind

Are Indonesia and Vietnam’s multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet

Indonesia and Vietnam's energy deals to shift from coal to renewables face delays, but policy progress is underway.

Electric Vehicle charging stations are seen a residential building parking area in Mumbai, India, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

Indians who paid a deposit for Tesla EVs ask for it back as cars fail to arrive

In the eight years since Tesla’s initial promise to sell cars in India, the automaker has failed to follow through.

This photo shows power lines in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Vietnam will let electricity-guzzling factories buy electricity from wind and solar power producers, helping big companies like Samsung Electronics meet their climate targets and relieving pressure on the country's overstrained grid. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
BusinessEconomyElectricityIndustryManufacturingNewsTransmission

Vietnam allows big companies to buy clean energy to hit climate targets

Factory owners such as Samsung look forward to using Vietnam DPPAs to circumvent country's strained grid and harness green energy instead.

This photo released by Vinfast shows Vinfast electric car VF3 at an event in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2024. Vietnamese automaker VinFast just can’t sell enough cars, so it's hoping its tiniest and cheapest car yet — a roughly 10-foot-long mini-SUV priced at $9,200 and called the VF3 — will become Vietnam's “national car" and win over consumers in Asian markets. (Vinfast Handout)
AnalysisElectric Vehicles (EVs)

Vietnam’s VinFast looks to tiny EV, priced at less than $10,000, to change its fortunes

Vinfast is hoping to win over consumers in Asian markets with its tiniest and cheapest car yet.

A worker sweeps the floor beneath rice processors in a warehouse at Hoang Minh Nhat, a rice export company in Can Tho, Vietnam, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The Mekong Delta, where 90% of Vietnam's exported rice is farmed, is one of the world's regions most vulnerable to climate change. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
AgricultureAnalysisClimateEmissionsIn-Depth

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

There is a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn’t just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely...

ClimateHydropowerNewsWeather

Water guns mark Thai New Year festivities despite heat wave worries

El Nino and climate change conspire to create record-high temperatures for three days of festivities meant to herald the rainy season, while hydropower...

AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)News

Vietnamese automaker VinFast to enter Thai EV market

BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand and said it had tied...

AgricultureAnalysisBiodiversityEnvironmentIn-Depth

‘Winners and losers’: The world of coffee is being reordered by EU laws to stop cutting of forests

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam (AP) — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes...

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