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Despite having the world’s third-largest economy, Japan ranked among the most unequal countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2020, coming in at 121 out of 153 countries. It w...

4 Mar 2021

Blue Planet receives investment of US$10 million from Sysma Holdings

Singapore-headquartered Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte Ltd (Blue Planet) announced today an investment of US$10 million from Sysma Holdings Limited, a Singapore-listed investment holdings com...

18 Nov 2020

What was once considered the path to prosperity for Pakistan is now a fraught subject. In the past three years, there has been little progress on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), touted by...

6 Oct 2020

IFC and Collectius launch the first distressed asset recovery platform to address the impacts of Covid-19 on the banking sector

Thanks to this new regional platform, more than 100,000 businesses and households in East Asia Pacific are expected to regain access to formal credit by 2026. Launched by IFC, a member of the World Ba...

16 Sep 2020

Villagers in North Sumatra, Indonesia, are waiting to hear if the World Bank will support their struggle against a zinc mine owner’s plans to build a tailings dam on unstable volcanic soils near their...

24 Mar 2021

Carbon neutrality may now be a buzzword in China but many will have heard it for the first time only last September, when Xi Jinping announced the country’s aim to be carbon neutral by 2060. Half a ye...

14 Apr 2021

TMB Bank PLC backs Southeast Asian solar power producer Constant Energy with up to US$50 million loan facility

TMB Bank Public Company Limited is further expanding its financing activities in the commercial and industrial (C&I) solar sector by providing Thailand-based Constant Energy Group with a 1.5 billi...

6 Jan 2021

The Blue Circle utilises largest wind turbines in Asia to power Vietnam

The Blue Circle and AC Energy have ordered the first GE 5MW-158 from General Electric (GE) for the second phase of the Mui Ne project in South Vietnam The Blue Circle and its partner AC Energy, the p...

30 Mar 2020

The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened for business in 2016 and rapidly established itself as a major multilateral development institution. It now aims to become the wor...

26 Oct 2020

As the impacts of Covid-19 have expanded from immediate healthcare needs to our societies and economies, the resiliency and inefficiencies of global, regional and local food systems have the potential...

24 Sep 2020

Impossible Foods’ chief executive and founder Pat Brown fired a salvo at cell-based meat makers on Tuesday as the plant-based burger start-up debuted its Impossible Beef slabs at grocery stores and su...

21 Oct 2020

Global hunger has been on an indefensible rise for many years, and Asia—home to nearly half a billion of the world’s hungry and more than half of the world’s malnourished children—has not been spared....

15 Oct 2020

Health-care delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against Covid-19. As the pandemic’s caselo...

14 Oct 2020

Mobile health team giving vaccines to a rural community in Ethiopia

The world was unprepared for Covid-19 — but it has responded remarkably to the challenge of a pandemic. Nearly one year into the outbreak, 172 countries are involved in researching vaccine candidates ...

23 Nov 2020

Acquittal of Indonesian villagers win against SLAPP

A court in Indonesia has acquitted six villagers in a dispute against a tapioca factory, ruling that the criminal charges, allegedly brought at the behest of the company, were frivolous and could not ...

4 Aug 2021

Southeast Asia’s canneries have improved in their sourcing of traceable and sustainably fished tuna, but need to urgently eliminate forced labour at sea, said environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, ...

26 Aug 2020

Indonesia, coal mine, coronavirus bailout

A new analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), an energy think-tank, urges the Indonesian government not to provide a coronavirus bailout to the country’s ailing ...

16 Sep 2020

Deutsche Bank and Olam International close Asia’s first FX Forward using ESG performance targets

...equities, where market standards are becoming standardized. This sustainability-linked derivative transaction leverages Deutsche Bank’s world-class execution expertise and commitment to ESG to o...

26 Jun 2020

For the first time, Quezon City, Philippines among 88 cities recognised for climate leadership by CDP

Global environmental non-profit CDP announces the 88 global cities*[1] that continue to lead on environmental action and transparency during 2020, despite the pressures of tackling Covid-19. 14 cities...

8 Jan 2021

Corteva Agriscience announces award to galvanise food resilience and promote agricultural sustainability

ID Capital announces the Corteva Agriscience Prize for Future Food Asia 2020, set to take place in September The global food supply chain has in recent months seen some of the most extraordinary chal...

29 Jun 2020

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