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Eclimo scooter
June 17, 2011
US-company KLD Energy Technologies has sold its motor system for use in a new line of electric scooters for the Malaysian market.
June 17, 2011
China's BYD Company Limited has inked a deal to supply the city of Frankfurt, Germany, with its all-electric, long-range, eBUS.
June 15, 2011
Ho Tong Yen, Singapore's top official in charge of the Tianjin Eco-City, will be one of the first residents to move in and test its eco-friendly features when it starts to become populated early next year.
June 13, 2011
Singapore looks set to be the first country to have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), that promotes the green technology sector. In 2010 bilateral trade between the two hit SGD76.9 billion (USD62.5 billion).
June 10, 2011
Youbisheng Green Paper, the German holding company of a Chinese clean-tech linerboard maker, aims to list in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the third quarter of the year, Reuters reported today.
June 09, 2011
A Sino-Japanese home appliance recycling project is being set up in Tonglu county, Zhengjiang province.
BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu contemplates the company's share price
June 09, 2011
BYD - the world's largest maker of rechargeable batteries and former darling of China's automotive industry - plans to float its shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in addition to the Hong Hong market where it has been listed since 2002.
Home solar panel roofing
June 08, 2011
Malaysia's Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water is currently in talks with Bank Negara Malaysia on the possibility of providing soft loans for consumers to purchase solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. It estimates that solar panels with one kilowatt peak capacity would cost about RM15,000 (USD5,000).
Fair Winds Charter for Hong Kong
June 08, 2011
On January 1 2011, 18 shipping companies voluntarily, and without a subsidy, began using cleaner fuel while at berth in Hong Kong. Shipping companies estimate that this switch costs from USD500,000-2 million annually. What is behind this commitment?
June 08, 2011
SMRT Corporation - Singapore's multi-modal public transport service provider - has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's BYD.
Aircraft emissions look pretty sometimes
June 07, 2011
  The war of words over the European Union's (EU) threat to tax airlines on emissions escalated over the weekend when the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that the plan may result in an international trade dispute.
June 07, 2011
Chemical giant BASF launched the Compost Asia Pledge Facebook app on World Environment Day, with the aim to keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators.
CSIRO sustainable 'bio-derived' jet fuel development
June 06, 2011
Establishing an economically and environmentally beneficial, 'bio-derived' Australian and New Zealand aviation fuels industry is a viable proposition, according to a report compiled by The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in collaboration with the region's major aviation industry players.
China has mounting environmental problems says Li Ganjie
June 05, 2011
In a wide ranging and unusually frank press conference on Friday China's Vice Minister of Environmental Protection, Li Ganjie, told journalists that while the country had met pollution reduction targets set for the 11th Five-Year Plan between 2006 and 2010, three decades of fast-paced economic growth has nonetheless left its environment in very poor shape.
UNEP's Achiem Steiner plants one more tree for India
June 05, 2011
Stand at the traffic signal waiting to cross and you are overwhelmed by a belch of black smoke pumped out of the exhaust of the bus accelerating by, bringing gasps and chokes pedestrians. Ancient trees are being cut down in Bangalore in the name of development and we can see man-made destruction of our environment all around us.
June 04, 2011
Aleenta Phuket-Phang Nga has scooped the Asia Pacific Hotel Awards 2011 for Best Small Hotel and Best Sustainable Hotel in both the Thailand and Asia Pacific categories.
A slum in Quito
June 04, 2011
Growing urbanisation does not have to spell disaster for either human health or the environment, and both research and underused technologies can help mitigate its negative effects, a conference has heard.
June 03, 2011
The worst drought in half a century in China will not push up grain prices drastically, but paddy rice growth will be affected, experts say.
June 03, 2011
Singapore public transport provider SMRT International announced today a new agreement with Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD to explore a joint venture that would bring electric vehicles, including e-buses and electric taxis, to Singapore.
June 02, 2011
China has achieved its five-year goal of cleaning up the polluted Songhua River, which flows into the Heilong River (known in Russia as the Amur) that flows along the border, an environmental official said on Tuesday.