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Single-use plastic bags are stuffed into a grate door in Little India, Singapore. Only 6 per cent of the city-state's plastic waste was recycled last year. Image: Michael Coghlan/Flickr

News / Waste

Singapore’s battle with disposable plastic addiction

...Malaysia), biodegradable plastic “may not be better for the environment”, the National Environment Agency (NEA) concluded in a lifecycle study of carrier bags and packaging released in March. RedMart ...

17 Jul 2018

Singapore’s battle with disposable plastic addiction

News / Carbon & Climate

Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?

...Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam, is home to some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. But forest fires and land conversion for logging, plantations and infrastructure development have reduced the i...

4 Dec 2017

Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?

Press Releases / Asia Plantation Capital Pte Ltd

Asia Plantation Capital Berhad launches Gaharu plantation

...Malaysia (SSM) - the Companies Commission of Malaysia - for its agarwood plantations. This enables Asia Plantation Capital Berhad to market its agarwood plantation investment programme in Malaysia, th...

3 Feb 2017

Asia Plantation Capital Berhad launches Gaharu plantation

Press Releases / ENGIE

ENGIE invests S$80 million in Centre of Expertise to drive digital and energy efficiency initiatives in Singapore

...Malaysia, The Philippines and New-Zealand. Singapore will become one of ENGIE’s main regional development platforms, besides existing operations in the Middle East, Western Europe and North Ame...

28 Mar 2018

ENGIE invests S$80 million in Centre of Expertise to drive digital and energy efficiency initiatives in Singapore

Press Releases / Asia Plantation Capital Pte Ltd

Asia Plantation Capital Berhad confirms regulatory approval

...Malaysia (SSM) - the Companies Commission of Malaysia - has officially confirmed the final approval for the company to market its agarwood plantation investment programme both in Malaysia and on the i...

3 Feb 2017

Asia Plantation Capital Berhad confirms regulatory approval

News / Corporate Responsibility

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands

...Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. The palm oil produced from these plantations winds up in some of the most well-known products on the market, including Kit Kat chocolate bars, Colgate toothpaste, Johnso...

27 Sep 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands

News / Food & Agriculture

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

...Malaysia, is famed for the British colonial era architecture that won its capital, Georgetown, an inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list. These days, though, soaring land prices mean most of th...

24 Apr 2017

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

Opinion / Waste

Four ways to manage healthcare waste sustainably

...Malaysia and Palau still have no functioning waste management systems specifically for healthcare waste. Meanwhile the rest of the waste is dumped or burned through waste-to-energy incineration facili...

20 Apr 2018

Four ways to manage healthcare waste sustainably

Singapore's only landfill, the purpose-built trash island of Semakau

News / Waste

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

...Malaysia and Thailand, closing their doors to waste imports, the future of recycling seems to be to do it locally. Is Singapore’s long-term ambition to be a regional hub for recycling innovation? If s...

25 May 2019

How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

...Malaysia). In many villages within the province of South Sumatra, a priority province for peatland restoration, purun has traditionally been utilised as raw materials for homemade crafts, mostly mats,...

3 Jul 2018

Restoring peat, improving welfare and empowering women: can we have it all?

News / Energy

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

...Malaysia, that infringed on local people’s land rights and was linked to the intimidation and detention of indigenous people, and a dam in Laos that was built without adequate consultation with local ...

3 May 2017

Renewable energy faces growing human rights concerns

News / Transport

Chinese bike-sharing company ofo arrives in Oxford

...Malaysia and the United States. Its major rival Mobike has begun operations in Italy, Singapore and Britain. This story was published with permission from China.org.cn

23 Aug 2017

Chinese bike-sharing company ofo arrives in Oxford

Kesara Manchusree, president, Stock Exchange of Thailand

News / Corporate Responsibility

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

...Malaysia just one,” she says. Since she was appointed president of SET three years ago, moving up from a role as the bourse's chief marketer in June 2014, Kesara has been on a mission to push for mor...

17 Oct 2017

How Thailand built Southeast Asia's most sustainable stock exchange

News / Corporate Responsibility

Major Islamic financier singled out for forest clearing in Indonesia

In a recent report by climate coalition Chain Reaction Research, Lembaga Tabung Haji, whose publicly traded palm oil firm TH Plantations controls 32 estates in Indonesia and Malaysia spanning 1,600 sq...

3 May 2018

Major Islamic financier singled out for forest clearing in Indonesia

A waterway runs through a palm oil estate owned by Golden Agri Resources. Water is critical to restoring peat forests burned in the fires of 2015

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

...Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby has had a spot in the rankings since 2013, and is listed in the industrial conglomerates category—it is the first pure play palm oil firm to be included. GAR joins a ...

21 Sep 2017

Palm oil giant makes debut in global sustainability index

Students from the International School of Kuala Lumpur learning how to turn used cartons into decorative trees at Sunway Pyramid on 11 November 2016.

News / Manufacturing

Picking the pack that grows back

...Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines told Eco-Business in a recent interview that about 41 per cent of Tetra Pak cartons in Malaysia now carry the FSC label, a steady increase from 14 per cent in 2015 ...

15 Feb 2017

Picking the pack that grows back

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia to get first payment from Norway for cutting forest emissions

...Malaysia, sparking a diplomatic spat. In Indonesia alone, the smoke sickened half a million people, according to government figures. The 2015 fires razed 26,000 square kilometers (10,038 square miles)...

21 Feb 2019

Indonesia to get first payment from Norway for cutting forest emissions

Plastic monster for Earth Hour 2018, Singapore

News / Lifestyle

'Mindset overhaul' on plastics due as Earth Hour switches focus in Singapore

...Malaysia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Citizens also see the need to curb the excessive usage of plastic. A public survey conducted by WWF around the Earth Hour event revealed strong support for m...

21 Mar 2018

'Mindset overhaul' on plastics due as Earth Hour switches focus in Singapore

News / Food & Agriculture

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

...Malaysia, Australia and Thailand. Fifteen of them were added in 2019 alone. The company says it’s taking on new suppliers to mitigate fluctuations in demand and local supply and to ensure future suppl...

23 Apr 2019

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

News / Energy

Small hydropower: a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

...Malaysia, Philippines, Brazil, Colombia and Peru,” Couto said. “Some regions like the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau and the Andes are of high interest for hydropower development, but these regions al...

15 Mar 2018

Small hydropower: a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

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