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...Malaysia. “Considerable efforts will be made by the Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia, as well as other members of the ACSR to build up the capabilities in Malaysia.” About 130 large listed com...

24 Sep 2024

Filling the first and last-mile gap: Asean's electric bus push

...Malaysia is also on the move. State-owned transport operator Prasarana plans to roll out 250 electric buses in 2025, with a further 1,100 units by 2028. In Indonesia, TransJakarta, ...

19 Jan 2026

Former Perak state park director Shah Redza Hussein has been appointed chief executive officer of the Malaysia Forest Fund (MFF), a federal government agency working to channel financing towards fores...

6 Jan 2025

Inclusive and sustainable: Celebrating 58 years of Asean

...Malaysia and Chair of Asean 2025, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, H.E. Sugiono, also offered remarks before the ceremonial cutting of the Asean Day cake. As part of the day's activ...

18 Aug 2025

Vivian Balakrishnan and Lawrence Wong_Singapore_S Rajaratnam Lecture

...Malaysia-Singapore electricity import pilot was launched; subsequently, in August 2023, the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines power integration project was announced. The renewed momentum has seen...

22 Apr 2025

Singapore central business district on a stormy day

...Malaysia in mandatory sustainability reporting requirements. Listed and large non-listed firms in the neighbouring Southeast Asian nation are expected to start ISSB-aligned reporting, including on Sco...

30 Aug 2025

...Malaysia (palm oil and tropical fruits). Ongoing discussions indicate that the situation remains fluid, and Asean leaders have wisely avoided kneejerk reactions, opting for negotiation over reprisal. ...

24 Apr 2025

Government-installed solar panels on Sumba Island Indonesia

...Malaysia have introduced similar power wheeling systems, enhancing their international competitiveness and driving renewables growth. Like Indonesia, both countries have state-owned utilities which ar...

8 May 2025

Asean strengthens climate action commitment through new cycle of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

...Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Singapore shared insights into their countries’ progress and the evolving challenges in fulfilling the global climate goals. Malaysia’s path to...

20 Nov 2024

...Malaysia drafted an open letter to the Malaysia's Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation and the Sabah state government, calling for a halt to prospecting activities, which "could harm...

25 Sep 2024

...Malaysia’s first data centre and Google Cloud region – a physical location equipped with infrastructure that enables faster, more efficient access to high-performance cloud services; Microsoft’s US$1...

26 May 2025

...Malaysia said. Bursa Malaysia's SBTi-validated targets include a near-term target to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 50 per cent by 2030, from a base year of 2022. By 2050, it aims to re...

11 Sep 2024

...Malaysia project director for Internews, a non-profit news group that has been affected by funding budget cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Journalists in Malays...

19 Mar 2025

...Malaysia is also preparing carbon policies expected to come into force by 2026 while Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar engage primarily in voluntary markets without full regulatory frameworks yet.

17 Oct 2025

A biogas plant, which captures methane and other greenhouse gasses from open wastewater treatment systems at a palm oil mill, will feed into Malaysia’s first technology-based carbon credits to be auct...

20 May 2025

...Malaysia. Image: Fulcrum If women farmers were provided with the same access to productive resources, such as land, credit, social protection programmes and pragmatic technology, as men, they could i...

10 Mar 2026

...Malaysia and Vietnam have announced intentions to launch their own carbon pricing schemes, their coverages have yet to be determined. Earlier this year, Malaysia's Sarawak also pushed for a unified As...

6 Jun 2025

...Malaysia takes on the Asean Chairmanship in 2025, it has a unique opportunity to champion a bold, legally binding Asean Environmental Rights (AER) Framework. Such a framework would do more than protec...

14 May 2025

...Malaysia, and Singapore. “Even after the floods recede or temperatures normalise, the damage to population health continues to accumulate,” noted the study's lead author Yanbin Xu from NTU’s Nanyang ...

9 Jan 2026

Ahead of the annual meeting of Asean's energy ministers next month, host country Malaysia has said that it would prioritise advancing the Asean Power Grid, a project that has been about 30 years in th...

26 Sep 2025

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