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Opinion / Singapore

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Policy & Finance

Responsible investment’s AI trilemma – emissions, job losses and inequality

Investors who fail to assess and mitigate the potential harms of adopting Artificial Intelligence cannot credibly call themselves "responsible".
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Energy

Energy trade in Southeast Asia: The need to address resource nationalism

Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. Asean can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it.
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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power

If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans.
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Cities

Rights on demand: Asia’s gig economy gets a legal upgrade

The initiatives in Singapore and Malaysia to protect gig workers could act as a model for emerging economies to regulate platform labour.

All Singapore Opinion

17 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, philanthropy can unlock climate finance

9 September 2025

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Energy

Beyond green data centres: Leaner, smarter AI for Southeast Asia’s sustainable digital future

15 August 2025

Siti Khadijah Market in Malaysia

Food & Agriculture

A food security imperative for the Johor-Singapore SEZ blueprint

30 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

A new trade agenda for climate-resilient development

17 June 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Article 6: Climate tool or trap?

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Cities

Hot in the city. But it doesn't have to be – we have answers

26 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

An intelligent trade-off: AI as a double-edged sword in Southeast Asia’s climate battle

15 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Asia rising: why the future of climate leadership belongs here

14 May 2025

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Carbon & Climate

From Kuala Lumpur to Belém: can Asean lead its people and the planet?

8 April 2025

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Transport

Autonomous driving and Southeast Asia: Will it hit the road?

27 February 2025

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Carbon & Climate

DeepSeek’s AI disruption: Implications for global climate policy

27 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance

13 December 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Making carbon trading work: Exploring collaboration between Japan and Asean countries

7 November 2024

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Policy & Finance

What Trump’s re-election means for ESG in Southeast Asia

14 October 2024

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Cities

Asbestos: Singapore's toxic past is catching up with it

4 October 2024

Solar power plant, Central Thailand, energy transition

Carbon & Climate

The people's vision for regional decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

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