When questions were raised in the European Union regarding workers’ rights in Cambodia, the country responded by promising laborers in the garment industry a 4.4% raise to the legal minimum wage by January 2020.
The United Nations plans to plant half a million hectares of urban forests to improve air temperatures and other climate issues in Africa and Asia's fast-growing cities.
More and more Asian cities are turning to electric vehicles in hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while also developing their transportation system.