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Smarter AI design, paired with green data infrastructure, can help Southeast Asia meet its digital ambitions without compromising energy transition goals. The region doesn’t just need more green data ...

9 Sep 2025

Leading carbon market experts have criticised a proposed standard for carbon projects under the United Nations’ climate change body, which they say could exclude nature-based solutions from being reco...

8 Agu 2025

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, is being investigated for its investments in a commercial bank that is financing the construction of two new co...

17 Jul 2024

As global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) face mounting financial shortfalls, universities across Asia are emerging as key players in sustainable finance. The Times Higher ...

25 Jul 2025

Record military spending threatens global peace and development, UN warns

Following a decade-long military build-up, global military spending hit a record high in 2024, soaring by more than nine per cent from 2023 and signalling a dangerous move away from the principles of ...

15 Sep 2025

The world is at a crossroads. The year 2024 was the first in which the global average surface temperature rose over 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This signals we have very probably entered the 20...

26 Nov 2025

In May 2009, Cyclone Aila devastated Bangladesh and India, killing at least 200 people and ruining the lives and livelihoods of millions. A decade later, Lamia Mohsin visited a village in Satkhira, Ba...

1 Apr 2025

Innovation and inclusion drive impactful, record year for IFC in Asia Pacific

IFC’s projects delivered significant impact across Asia Pacific in the last fiscal year, addressing pressing development challenges including climate change, gender inequality, food insecurity, ...

18 Nov 2024

Difficult-to-tackle issues like racial, religious and disability-oriented discrimination that are unique to Malaysian workplaces might complicate efforts to improve diversity and inclusion policies. H...

29 Mei 2024

As an Afro-Latina woman with degrees in computer and electrical engineering, Maya De Los Santos hopes to buck a trend by forging a career in AI, a field dominated by white men. AI needs her, experts ...

14 Jul 2025

'Engines of opportunity, centres of vulnerability': The growing challenges of Asia Pacific's cities

As Asia and the Pacific faces an unprecedented urban transformation, with cities preparing to absorb 1.2 billion more people by 2050 – roughly twice the population of Asean – government le...

27 Apr 2025

Typhoon Emong hits La Union in the Philippines, July 2025

Investors need to prepare for an "increasing likelihood of disorderly transitions and elevated physical risks" amid rising emissions and the current socioeconomic and geopolitical backdrop, warned Sin...

1 Agu 2025

...equities exposed by Covid-19. They are concerned about the lack of clarity on how PABS will work and say there is little to ensure states compel the pharmaceutical industry to share know-how. The acco...

5 Jun 2025

On December 26, 2004, a massive undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami that left 230,000 people across Southeast Asia dead. Almost everyone, both human and animal, was caught off guard, with a notab...

25 Jul 2025

The satellite internet service Starlink is entering South Asian countries in its latest expansion, offering fast internet connections to people left offline but raising concerns about the dominance o...

18 Mar 2025

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the United States has taken an everything-everywhere-all-at-once approach to disrupting the domestic and global status quo, and sustainability and cli...

17 Jun 2025

Overcoming the past: Cambodia's push for universal civil registration

During the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia’s civil registration and identification system was completely destroyed. Dr Top Neth, who was among those personally affected, recalls &ldquo...

15 Apr 2025

...equities, instead perpetuating exploitative colonial systems. Corruption across administrations has eroded public trust and hindered development. “Imperial Manila”, a metonym for the Philippine govern...

11 Des 2024

AIA Singapore launches inaugural sustainability report detailing ESG progress, championing of mental health and holistic wellness in 2024

SINGAPORE, 8 July 2025 — Leading health insurance provider AIA Singapore today announced the launch of the inaugural AIA Sustainability Report 2024, titled "Sustaining Healthier, ...

8 Jul 2025

Temasek-backed impact investment firm ABC Impact, DBS and UOB partner on sustainability-linked subscription loan facility

Singapore, 13 October 2025 – ABC Impact, an impact investing firm backed by Temasek and a member of Temasek Trust Asset Management, has partnered with DBS and UOB on a sustainability-linked...

14 Okt 2025

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