Early night, the tide rises out of the sea like an elongated tongue and lashes a part of the shores of Kho Phi Phi island, located in Southern Thailand, throwing up an assortment of garbage, including plastic, wood, cigarette boxes, water bottles, metal, glass, paper, rope, cardboard, etc. A stone throw away from a part […]
Top 5 Dream Vacation Spots
What would you do if you had full financial freedom, what would you do? How different would your life be? Private jets, someone to accompany and assist you wherever you go, and whatever you do. How would you treat the people in your life? How different would birthdays be? Holidays? If you could buy anything, […]
Island community seeks alternative power sources
In my mother’s hometown, a tropical island surrounded by crystal-clear blue waters, delivery of the basic services to the people is not much a necessity. And most of the local folks are used to it. Except for one: Electricity. For many decades, the coastal towns that ringed the island didn’t have much choice but to […]
RP island’s sweet water dev’t needs international help
It may not be known as the place where one can find the Fountain of Youth in mythology. But it can surely be dubbed as a tourism paradise and is the biggest and reliable source of sweet water in the Philippines, if not the world over. If you try to look at the map of […]
Boom time in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
White sands, palm trees, breathtakingly blue waters and coral reefs, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have got it all. “Tourism is booming; business hasn’t been this good in a while,” says the manager of a luxury resort on an absolutely perfect day in Port Blair. White sands, palm trees, breathtakingly blue waters and coral reefs, […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh, on its way to clean water but with a long road to go
Water is flowing plentifully into Bangladesh, but all is not hydraulically well in the 8th largest country in the world. With nearly half of its population exposed to unsafe water and slow water-poisoning, Bangladesh is firmly tackling one of its most endemic problems. But it will be no easy task, and providing safe water to […]
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