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A massive wind turbine that stands on Singapore’s Pulau Semakau, about 8km south of the mainland, can generate enough wind energy to power around 35 Housing Board flats annually.
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Dyson, the global tech firm best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, on Friday pledged to invest GBP 2.75 billion (USD 3.67 billion) in Singapore, the Philippines, and its home country UK through 2025. Although Dyson did not reveal an exact breakdown of the investment, it plans to build a manufacturing hub and expand its research facilities and labs in Singapore, together with a university research program.
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The British James Dyson Foundation presented the first Sustainability Award to Carvey Ehren Maigue, an electrical engineering student in the Philippines. He was awarded for creating new material from recycled crop waste that has the ability to transform ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun into electrical energy. The technology could soon be turning the windows and walls of buildings into a rich new source of electricity.
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More than 20 years ago, when two Chiang Rai-based environmentalists, Niwat Roikaew and Somkiat Kuenwongsa, learned that the Chinese government were blasting rapids in the upper Mekong River from Yunnan to Myanmar and Laos to clear the way for large commercial vessels, they started worrying.
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Vietnam, a typical destination for South Korean gasoline, could look towards Southeast Asia as a gasoline supply source in 2021 as Vietnam adjusts its import tax structure, said market participants.
ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) is an intergovernmental organisation within ASEAN structure that represents the 10 ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) interests in the energy sector.
