Eco-Business

Convenience vs environment: Southeast Asia's single-use plastic bottled water consumption persists

...Malaysia, and Vietnam, the inaccessibility of recycling bins/chutes was the primary reason for not recycling single-use plastic bottles. The inconvenient truth When asked what would make them ...

5 Jun 2023

...Malaysia, and Myanmar made efforts to ban and/or impose taxes on the use of plastic bags. Moreover, Thailand has drafted its action plan, which banned single-use plastics in 2022, and single-use plast...

3 Mei 2024

...Malaysian labour laws. Each report, however, stated: "There is no forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour hired in this facility." The presence of forced labour in the Malaysian medical glove indu...

18 Nov 2022

...Malaysia, US, Sweden, Netherlands and UK find that downpours of this intensity have already become 17 per cent heavier in the last 45 years. In a world where average global temperatures are 2°C above...

23 Agu 2024

...Malaysia also recently granted third-party access to the electricity grid by large companies looking to buy renewable energy directly from producers, although industry players say more needs to be don...

1 Okt 2024

World Economic Forum convenes special meeting on global collaboration, growth and energy for development

...Malaysia; Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of Nigeria; Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Oman; Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Mahmoud A...

29 Apr 2024

...Malaysia and Indonesia, but rapid urban development and agricultural expansion continues to eat away at pristine land. In Singapore, species extinction rates in the past 200 years had been revised dow...

29 Apr 2024

...Malaysia. These countries supplied 67 per cent of China’s LNG imports in 2023, compared to just 4 per cent from the US, and are likely to continue being the dominant suppliers to Asian markets. For ex...

6 Feb 2024

...Malaysia, which could contribute to the realisation of a pan-Southeast Asian power grid. First mooted nearly three decades ago, utilities, investors and multilateral banks have long-called for an Asea...

11 Jun 2024

...Malaysia's Petronas, which said it needed regulatory support to mandate emissions reporting across its value chain. “It’s not that we’re ignoring Scope 3 because we do understand that it is important,...

19 Des 2023

...Malaysia's Old Town White Coffee, Thailand's Minor International and Lotus, Super Indo and Potato Head Family of Indonesia, China's Zoo Group and Singapore-based SaladStop. Cage-free options are now a...

5 Jun 2023

An independent palm oil farmer in Indonesia.

A new law designed to uproot deforestation from European supply chains has been bitterly opposed by palm oil producer countries Malaysia and Indonesia who say it will marginalise smallholder farmers u...

25 Jan 2023

...Malaysia, 28 per cent in Thailand, and 9 per cent in Vietnam last year. El Niño conditions delaying the onset of the rainy season and its mitigating impact on PM2.5 levels were cited as among the main...

20 Mar 2024

...Malaysia. It also provides mapping, data processing, and weather prediction software for local groups to better protect nature and livelihoods. While useful, AI is seen as a double-edged sword within ...

21 Jun 2024

...Malaysia and Indonesia, when an oil spill occurs in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. MPA has informed the authorities of both nations. Shoreline near Berlayer Creek, currently one of two remaini...

19 Jun 2024

...Malaysia and Singapore began importing LNG in the 2010s, and Myanmar did so in 2020. Cambodia is preparing to start taking shipments, with a three-phase plan to promote the fuel's adoption at home. “S...

6 Nov 2023

East Asia and Pacific: Sustained growth, momentum slowing

...Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The diffusion of digital technologies and services reforms are improving economic performance. In the Philippines, the adoption of software and data an...

2 Okt 2023

Asean, dialogue partners scale up collaboration for sustainable development

...Malaysia in 2025.

29 Agu 2023

...Malaysia Bank Rakyat was established in 1954 with the aim of helping low-income earners in Malaysia gain access to capital. In addition to providing financial services for the general public, Bank Ra...

30 Jun 2023

...Malaysia floods – a visual story, which was produced by Liang Lei, Firdaus Firlany, Ruba Nackeeran and Ng Wai Mun. The piece told the story of Malaysia's once-in-a-century innundation using creative p...

4 Nov 2022

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