APEC Senior Officials: Ensure more inclusive growth
AT THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Informal Senior Officials’ Meeting in Langkawi, senior officials deliberated the forum’s policy agenda for the incoming year, marked by strategies that emphasize inclusion as much as growth. “APEC 2020 will focus on redefining the role of trade and investment from one that is solely for wealth creation to one […]
TNB: 26.5km submarine cable to strengthen electricity supply in Pulau Langkawi
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): Langkawi’s electric system, now fully automated, will be further enhanced through the installation of a 26.5km submarine cable that will deliver energy from the National Grid to the resort island. Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) chief grid officer Datuk Ir Husaini Husin said the effort to expand the 132 kilovolt (kV) submarine […]
Look to palm oil for electricity, says MPOB
PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has suggested tapping the potential of using “waste” from oil palm to generate electricity as a cleaner alternative to fuels like coal. MPOB director-general Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir said oil palm biomass, including empty fruit bunches, mesocarps fibres and kernel shells which are by-products from the oil extraction […]
Fossil fuel firms ‘could be sued’ for climate change
The world’s most polluting companies could be sued for their contributions to global warming, a major human rights inquiry has found in what has been described as a “landmark victory for climate justice”. The head of a Philippines Commission on Human Rights panel, which has been investigating climate change for three years, revealed its conclusions […]
Investors focusing on real estate, power generation in Myanmar
Real estate and power became the sectors most focused on by investors in the months of October of November, the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) has revealed. In the first two months of the 2019-20 fiscal year that began on October 1, the Myanmar Investment Commission approved 41 investments totalling US$1.3 billion (K1.9 […]
Ayala and Yoma team up to close Myanmar’s infrastructure gap
YANGON — If there is one thing Myanmar needs, it is infrastructure. Now, Yoma Group, one of the country’s biggest conglomerates, is looking to build it with a partner that knows a thing or two about power grids and water supplies — the Philippines’ Ayala. Yoma and Ayala have many overlapping businesses, from property and […]
Singapore to update climate pledge it made under Paris Agreement: Masagos
SINGAPORE – The Republic will soon be updating its climate pledge to guide its policies over the longer term, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said on Tuesday (Dec 10). This comes some five years after Singapore made its first climate pledge – which outlined its plans to limit its planet-warming greenhouse […]
DOE to hold a promotional run of Advanced Technology Vehicles in Quezon City
TAGUIG CITY – The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Energy Utilization Management Bureau (EUMB), will be conducting a Promotional Run of Advanced Technology Vehicles on Saturday, 14 December at the Quezon Memorial Grounds. Co-organized by the local government of Quezon City, the event is part of the DOE’s Alternative Fuels and Energy Technology Program. […]
