| BANGLADESH: Dhaka’s shrinking wetlands raise disaster risks |
 | DHAKA، 18/6/2012 (IRIN) - Rapid urbanization and the demise of wetlands around Dhaka, the mushrooming capital of Bangladesh, has made the city more vulnerable to flooding and other natural disasters. full report |
| How to move floodwater through Bangkok |
 | BANGKOK، 19/6/2012 (IRIN) - As flood season revisits Thailand, experts and policymakers look to 2011, which brought the worst floods in half a century, to glean lessons about how they might safely move floodwater through Bangkok, the Thai capital, should they need to. full report |
| NEPAL: Caterpillar fungus harvest impacts environment |
 | DHO TARAP، 20/6/2012 (IRIN) - The seasonal influx of migrant harvesters into Nepal’s Himalaya Mountains seeking a caterpillar fungus used as a traditional medicine and believed to have aphrodisiac properties is causing environmental damage along the rural border with Tibet. full report |
| MYANMAR: Bleak prospects for Chin refugees in India |
 | NEW DELHI، 21/6/2012 (IRIN) - In a slum in New Delhi, the Indian capital, Chhery Lem, 37, from the Chin ethnic minority group in Myanmar, recoils at the stench from a broken sewage pipe in the rundown apartment block where she and her three young children live with numerous other refugee families. full report |
| NEPAL: Got any fertilizer? |
 | SALYAN، 22/6/2012 (IRIN) - Until a few years ago, Nepal’s porous border with India was a fertilizer pipeline - and lifeline - for farmers who faced stock-outs at home. But now the supply and quality are unreliable, leaving Nepali farmers to coax crops from soil that is growing steadily poorer by using organic compost or sub-standard chemical fertilizers. full report |
| INDONESIA: Asylum seekers take to boats out of frustration |
 | PUCAK، 22/6/2012 (IRIN) - Refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia, many of whom fled persecution and conflict in their home countries, say they are being driven to get on boats for Australia out of frustration with the resettlement process. full report |