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Press Releases / LYS Energy Group

LYS Energy Group acquired by Leader Energy to boost renewable energy in Southeast Asia

...Malaysia, allowing for the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of LYS Energy. KPMG in Singapore acted as the financial advisor to LYS Energy, a pan ASEAN renewable energy corporate power purchas...

28 Sep 2021

LYS Energy Group acquired by Leader Energy to boost renewable energy in Southeast Asia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Using fruity flavours and Pikachus to hook Pinoy youths on nicotine

...Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam – is expected to increase from US$631 million in 2020 to US$757 million in 2023. Amid this rapidly booming business scenario, protecting youths from nicotine addictio...

17 Feb 2022

Using fruity flavours and Pikachus to hook Pinoy youths on nicotine

Solar farm, Thailand, intermittency challenges

News / Energy

When the wind drops and the sun goes down: how can Southeast Asia handle fluctuating clean power supply?

...Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project, too, has moved ahead. Under the scheme, participating countries have committed to sending electricity from Laos to Singapore and Malaysia, with Thailand a...

27 Aug 2021

When the wind drops and the sun goes down: how can Southeast Asia handle fluctuating clean power supply?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What to expect from Asia Pacific's burgeoning ESG market

...Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, have made recent strides in improving companies’ management and disclosure of climate-related ESG issues, China is poised to become the region’s next tr...

28 Jan 2022

What to expect from Asia Pacific's burgeoning ESG market

A farmer walks within a regenerative agriculture project in the Brazilian Amazon

News / Food & Agriculture

Can regenerative agriculture transform palm oil?

On a 100-hectare plot of land nestled in Malaysia, farmers will soon begin an experiment that will turn the idea of a palm oil plantation on its head. Instead of establishing a monocrop, they will pla...

28 Mar 2022

Can regenerative agriculture transform palm oil?

Forests in an island in Langkawi in northern Malaysia

News / Policy & Finance

Groups call for US$60 billion increase in annual biodiversity funding

...Malaysia. “Ultimately, these chicken may end up as meat in supermarkets and restaurants in Europe,” Lenzen said. “Biodiversity loss is disproportionally driven by resource consumption in developed cou...

14 Mar 2022

Groups call for US$60 billion increase in annual biodiversity funding

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil: Import bans pressure sustainability standards

...Malaysian operations. However, a complaint to the Malaysian Securities Commission alleging that SDP had made wrongful disclosures in its 2019 sustainability report now pits the planter in legal action...

17 Mar 2021

Palm oil: Import bans pressure sustainability standards

News / Corporate Responsibility

Push for Asean to tighten human rights due diligence for cross-border financing of agribusiness

...Malaysia's CIMB Group – scored 2 out of 10 for gender equality, human rights, labour rights, as well as transparency and accountability. This was measured using the Fair Finance Guide International (F...

30 Nov 2022

Push for Asean to tighten human rights due diligence for cross-border financing of agribusiness

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

...Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. “The efforts will be stronger if conducted together. Indonesia invites Malaysia to have the same commitment regarding the issue of palm oil.” Yassin said Mal...

4 Mar 2021

Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil

News / Policy & Finance

Conferences highlight forests as a vital solution to converging crises

...Malaysia’s Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities, explained his country’s policy approach to stopping unsustainable commodity production practices, including a commitment to limit the plan...

12 Jul 2022

Conferences highlight forests as a vital solution to converging crises

News / Food & Agriculture

More Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters as clampdowns ease

...Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and China. “The IUUF done by Vietnam-flagged vessels in the official waters of Natuna is a problem that has dragged on and that hasn’t been resolved by either the ...

23 May 2022

More Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters as clampdowns ease

News / Policy & Finance

Greenwash scrutiny in Asia a great boost to climate intelligence business: MioTech chief

...Malaysia’s exchange Bursa. It also wants to expand its commercial bank clientele. To complement its increased presence in the region, the start-up has launched its Singapore and Southeast Asia ESG da...

20 Jul 2022

Greenwash scrutiny in Asia a great boost to climate intelligence business: MioTech chief

News / Waste

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

...Malaysia sent in February were possibly illegal. In January, the US sent 25.2 million kg (27,800 tonnes) abroad, but in March, Malaysia declined to accept a shipment. While these shipments may not vio...

18 May 2021

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

Floods in Bandung in West Java, Indonesia.

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Investing in climate adaptation and resilience this Earth Day

...Malaysia resulted in a number of deaths, and over 30,000 citizens evacuating their homes. Tropical storm Megi recently devastated Philippines, leaving scores dead and almost 20,000 displaced in what i...

22 Apr 2022

Investing in climate adaptation and resilience this Earth Day

A palm oil mill in Southern Papua, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Will China produce its own palm oil?

...Malaysia, which together produce 80 per cent of the world’s palm oil. China relies entirely on imports – about 7 million tonnes annually in recent years, at a cost of over US$4 billion. It is the worl...

9 Feb 2022

Will China produce its own palm oil?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

...Malaysia’ followed up on this request in October 2020. This complaint was sent to the concession auditors SIRIM, and the Malaysia Timber Certification Council. Communities welcome advice from Samling ...

25 Jun 2021

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

News / Energy

The more coal dominates the energy mix, the more positively Southeast Asia's media will cover it—except in the Philippines

...Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Evaluating the positivity of coal press coverage versus the coal capacity of the country, researchers calculated that 44 per cent of the Philippines’ elect...

16 Feb 2021

The more coal dominates the energy mix, the more positively Southeast Asia's media will cover it—except in the Philippines

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How Covid-19 can be the impetus for growth in renewable energy

...Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam – found a robust pipeline of over 800 projects with a total investment potential of over US$316b. Particularly, countries like Malaysia...

6 May 2021

How Covid-19 can be the impetus for growth in renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

Details emerge surrounding closed-door carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

Leaders in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo have begun to share more about a murky arrangement in which the rights to carbon and other ecosystem services from the state’s forests w...

25 Nov 2021

Details emerge surrounding closed-door carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo