In recent years, the international community has accelerated efforts to crack down on the global waste trade – a harmful business that allows the rich to prey on the poor – but a lack of enforcement and a number of loopholes keep the trade afloat.
Southeast Asian foreign ministers pressed their Myanmar regime's counterpart for "concrete" progress on a stagnant ASEAN peace plan for the country during a meeting in Bangkok on Sunday, top Thai and Philippine diplomats said.
BY AFP