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...Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, UK and Vietnam. Initial opposition to plastic currency came from the growers of abaca, or Manila hemp, which is used to strengthen the existin...

25 May 2022

...Malaysia. The author declared no conflicts of interest. Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info™.

29 Jul 2022

...Malaysia and Brunei said “For the past two years, we were unable to have a full-scale in-person event. The Covid-19 pandemic brought new circumstances and the usual set-up had to change. Safety ...

23 Jun 2022

Singapore-based organisation tops action towards decarbonisation rankings in transport benchmark from WBA, CDP

...Malaysia-based MISC Berhad, ranked number 15 and J&T Express from Indonesia.

21 Oct 2022

Dau Tieng Solar Power Project in Vietnam

...Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Apart from success with renewable energy tenders, these countries also have better power grid infrastructure to deal with the intermittent output of solar and w...

4 Apr 2023

...Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

10 Nov 2021

...Malaysia, where labour is provided by migrant workers or local villagers. A 2020 investigation by the Associated Press that examined the practices of two dozen palm oil companies found child labour, “...

6 Dec 2022

...Malaysia is one of the biggest palm oil growers in the region, and the creation of RSPO – a group of palm oil growers, buyers, investors and non-governmental organisations – was so that deforestation ...

6 Dec 2022

An ukay-ukay stall in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

...Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam for one week in the month of June 2021. In the survey, 95 per cent of millennials in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong felt that purchasing pre-owned items...

3 Dec 2021

Harjeet Singh_UNClimateChange_LossandDamage

...Malaysia and Indonesia only mention this issue in passing. Other Southeast Asian countries’ NDCs, however, do not use the term L&D when discussing the destructive impacts of climate change. Climat...

9 Nov 2022

Schneider Electric launches SME kickstarter decarbonisation programme supported by Enterprise Singapore

...Malaysia and Brunei, Schneider Electric, said, “Schneider Electric is excited to be partnering with Enterprise Singapore to enable our SMEs to kickstart their sustainability journeys, in support...

10 Oct 2022

Joseph D'Cruz, chief executive, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Joseph D'Cruz, the recently appointed chief executive of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), grew up in Kuantan on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, at a time when oil palm plantations...

20 Jun 2022

...Malaysia. Despite high demand for palm oil, there is little demand in China for the sustainably produced, premium-priced stuff. Only about 1 per cent of China’s palm oil imports are certified as susta...

13 Jun 2023

...Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and India, and hopefully even more countries in the future. Every single day, the issues we cover continue to fascinate me. This complex relationship between the ...

23 Sep 2023

Artist and activist Shaq Koyok (left) with members of the indigenous Temuan community

In a rare victory for environmental activism in Southeast Asia, a peat forest in Malaysia has been spared the bulldozers after a public outcry forced legislators to reconsider its fate. A decision to ...

9 Sep 2021

GIC invests RM750 million in Sunway Healthcare

...Malaysia’s healthcare industry. Sunway Berhad (“Sunway”) has finalised a deal where an affiliate of GIC Pte Ltd (“GIC”), Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, wi...

1 Jul 2021

...Malaysia. Authorities in these countries and United Nations officials have said they are run by Chinese gangsters who control gambling across southeast Asia and are making up for losses during the pan...

2 Nov 2022

Employees work on their laptops at the Start-up Village, India

...Malaysia set up skilling programmes and offered tax incentives and cash subsidies to boost learning in sectors such as information technology, healthcare and the so-called green economy. Technology fi...

8 Mar 2022

Coal power plant, Indonesia, Korean-backed

...Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, and culminates in a two-day hybrid event held in Singapore. The next dialogue on the Philippines will be held on Thursday (8 Sep).

7 Sep 2022

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

...Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, while Chinese cities were prompted to open air raid shelters to offer its people respite from the searing heat. The heat wave is the latest test of the prepared...

16 Aug 2023

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