Yunnan Province, located in far southwest China, has a population of about 50 million, concentrated in about eight large cities, and borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Yunnan Investment Holdings Group and BYD intend to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, expanding BYD’s EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries. MORE

If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. MORE

The ethanolysis of fatty acids derived from seed oils could provide a renewable source of LAOs. olefins (LAOs) and other terminal-olefin products. Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. In many cases, catalyst turnover numbers (TONs) of more than 100?,000 000 were achieved, at a catalyst loading of only 3 ppm. MORE

Ketsana has since strengthened into a typhoon, and is expected to intensify further as it approaches Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, according to a government weather forecaster. Tropical Storm Ketsana, locally referred to as Ondoy, deluged Manila and surrounding areas with 455mm (18 inches) of rain in 24 hours Saturday, killing 240 people and displacing 609,548 according to SitRep 12 (29 September) from the Philippines National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC). MORE

—Lao et al. Jeemeng Lao, Manoj Sharma, Rita Sharma, Susana M. Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have used advanced proteomic techniques to identify 1,750 unique proteins in shoots of switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), a North American native prairie grass that is viewed as a promising biofuel crop candidate. The results of this study are reported in the journal Proteomics. MORE

Lianyi Shao, Jie Shu, Mengmeng Lao, Xiaoting Lin, Kaiqiang Wu, Miao Shui, Peng Li, Nengbing Long, Yuanlong Ren (2014) “Hydroxylamine hydrochloride: A novel anode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 272, Pages 39-44 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.08.065. MORE

The overall study area covered East-Southeast Asia and included 17 countries: China (including Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR); Taiwan; Japan; Mongolia; North Korea; South Korea; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Vietnam. MORE

The ASEAN member states are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Thailand Board of Investment announced that Thailand has received more foreign direct investment supporting the country’s growing electric vehicle production ecosystem. MORE

Canada Rare Earth Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase 60% of the issued and outstanding shares of a company based in Laos. The Laos company owns a full capability rare earth refinery that is designed to process monazite rare earth concentrate and separate the concentrate into the entire spectrum of commercially traded rare earths including light and heavy elements. MORE

The August 2016 testing by commercial vehicle magazine Lastauto Omnibus (LaO) compared the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz Actros long-distance truck compared to the basic model of 1996—a Mercedes-Benz from the SK model series and therefore one of the last representatives of the pre-Actros era. The test was structured according to the principles which LaO test manager Frank Zeitzen has defined for all on-road fuel consumption and vehicle mileage measurements. MORE

Typhoon Ketsana became 2009’s second-deadliest tropical cyclone so far, claiming nearly 500 lives across the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides. MORE

The model could also work successfully for other countries, however, and researchers are already considering how to assemble data for developing countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Thailand and Laos. Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO 2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to a new open-access study published in S cience Advances by an international team of researchers from Europe and China. MORE