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The damage to China's aquaculture sector caused by coronavirus could be far-reaching as customers from the US and elsewhere hold off on orders. Companies that specialise in sustainable aquaculture products [...]

I sat alongside the Ou river listening to the waves lap against the half-submerged Lat Tha Hae temple in Luang Prabang province, northern Laos. Grandpa Un paused from sweeping his [...]

Many people around the world are in partial or complete isolation to slow the spread of Covid-19. Some traditionalists rushed to local libraries to stock up before lockdowns came into [...]

Sandwiched between Argentina, Brazil and the Atlantic ocean, Uruguay is one of the most politically and socially stable countries in Latin America. Environmental protection has become a key concern for [...]

Editor's note: Since this article was published, the Kunming biodiversity COP15 has been postponed in response to Covid-19. In October this year, governments from around the world are due to adopt [...]

The ongoing spread of Covid-19, which is thought to have originated from a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, is focusing increased attention on human interactions with wildlife. [...]

Editor's note: Article updated on 2 April.This year's packed agenda of negotiations on climate change, biodiversity and the global ocean was supposed to address the fortunes of a living world [...]

In the next five years, China will overhaul its environmental governance to deliver a system that is “clear in its direction”, “scientific in decision making”, “strong in enforcement”, “effective in [...]

The circular economy – a model based on recycling, reusing and repairing raw materials and products – is a domestic political priority in China, written into law in 2008. It is [...]

Vietnam is the world's second largest destination for the illegal trade in pangolins after China. The Southeast Asian country is also a major transit hub for trafficking the endangered mammal [...]

In response to questions from netizens regarding the source of the funding for their recent donations of medical aid to other countries, the Jack Ma Foundation has issued a statement [...]

A report published yesterday by 公益资本论 analyses the performance of China's Charity Federation (慈善会) since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. The report concludes that the Charity Federation's network has [...]

The Shenzhen Mammoth Public Welfare Foundation (深圳市猛犸公益基金会) has donated a batch of 1000 Coronavirus Detection Kits to Serbia, with the cooperation of the Chinese Embassy in Serbia and the Serbian [...]

Last week, the Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs for Chengdu issued an official notice (通知) entitled “eight measures to promote the normal operations of social organizations in order to respond [...]

The Jack Ma Foundation has published a handbook for medical staff worldwide, summarizing some of the lessons from China's experience of dealing with the new COVID-19 outbreak. The philanthropic foundation [...]

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has recently issued a “Notice on Further Active Social Organizations in Coordinated Promotion of Epidemic Prevention and Control and Economic and Social Development”. The notice requires [...]

Statistics from China's Ministry of Public Security show that the registration of new representative office for overseas NGOs in Mainland China, as mandated by China's Overseas NGO Law, has not [...]

The Beijing Social Organization Development Service Center, in conjunction with the Beijing Social Organization Incubation Center and the Social Organization Innovation Acceleration Project, has conducted an investigation on the city's [...]

At a press conference held yesterday in Beijing, Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs Zhan Chengfu publicly addressed some of the concerns regarding the confused and unsatisfactory deployment of donated material [...]

According to a post published yesterday by 中国社会组织动态, the official WeChat account of the Social Organizations' Management Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, fake social organizations have been sending [...]