VIENTIANE: More than 221,000 disadvantaged children in remote areas of Laos will directly benefit from a new nutrition programme run by Unicef Laos with support from the government of China worth about US$1.5 million.
More than 221,000 disadvantaged children in remote areas of Laos will directly benefit from a new nutrition programme run by UNICEF Laos with support from the government of China worth about US$1.5 million.
HANOI: Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish - one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world - were caught and released recently in Cambodia, reviving hopes for the survival of the species.
Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish – one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world – were caught and released here recently, reviving hopes for the species’ survival.
A huge fish in the Mekong River thought to be extinct has been spotted three times in recent years.
Many hope that raising eels – a delicacy in Asian markets like China, Japan and South Korea – will provide a way forward.
A Georgia homebuyer opened a fake email from her “attorney” – then lost more than US$155,000 (RM679,210) in a scam, officials said.
Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood.
PETALING JAYA: Title contenders U. Thanusaa and Goh Zhi Xuan stormed into the quarter-finals as other Malaysians also did well in their respective events of the Asian Junior Championships in Aabpara, Islamabad, yesterday.
SWITZERLAND-based eCommerce services provider DG1 has launched its subscription-based software in Malaysia, offering small and medium enterprises (SMEs) a platform to grow their business via the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
BANGKOK: Unsustainable development threatens the health and diverse fish populations of the Mekong river, with one-fifth of fish species in South-East Asia's main artery facing extinction, a report by conservation groups said on Monday (March 4).
For longtime fans of 'Star Wars Rebels', this is the sequel, or rather, ‘Season Five’ of the show we have been pining for.
PHNOM PENH (AFP): A fisherman on the Mekong river in Cambodia has hooked the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists said -- a 300-kilogram stingray.
THE world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the South-East Asian nation and the United States.
PETALING JAYA: Syafiq Kamal received a boost ahead of a crucial role for Malaysia in the Asian Team Championships when he reached the Jansher Khan Canberra Open quarter-finals in Canberra yesterday.
AN international team of scientists and fisheries experts was set to release more than 1,000 sizeable fish into a Tonle Sap Lake fish reserve in Siem Reap. The operation aims to save some of the world’s largest species of fish that are regarded as iconic symbols of Cambodia.
Fishermen on the Mekong River got a shock when they inadvertently hooked an endangered giant freshwater stingray four metres long and weighing 180kg, scientists said.
A COVID-19 reactive patient, identified only as D, 22, has given birth on her own, reportedly without the help of medical personnel at FL Tobing Sibolga Hospital in North Sumatra.
LONDON: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to online banking in Europe, but it has also given some suburban branches an unexpected new purpose – as alternative office space for staff reluctant to commute to big headquarters in city centres.