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Michael Taylor (Thomson Reuters Foundation) (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Kuala Lumpur   ●   Mon, January 23 2023 To help Malaysia head off frequent floods and choking air pollution caused by forest fires, new Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should tap more global green funding to protect nature and tackle the effects of warming, climate change […]

On 18 December 2022, the Council and the European Parliament of the EU reached a provisional political agreement on reforming the EU’s emissions trading system (EU ETS). The deal is pending formal adoption by both institutions and the full text is still awaited. Why is this important? • It is significant that in spite of […]

On the eve of China’s next generation of leaders formally taking office for President Xi Jinping’s third term, set to start in early March, the Joe Biden administration has stepped up its efforts to engage the new leaders. The latest among these was US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He […]

Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Laos and Cambodia are included in a study about the development of the transport sector. In terms of railroads, Indonesia and Myanmar have the largest rail mileage among Southeast Asian countries with a total rail mileage of over 6,000 km in 2020. As of 2022, Laos has a total rail mileage of over 400 km. The development of the transport sector in Southeast […]

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT — The joint Kuwaiti-Saudi Standing Committee holds a meeting at the Al-Khafji Joint Operations Area to review reports on onshore oil operations in the Partitioned Zone and the adjacent submerged Partitioned Zone. BAGHDAD — Five suspected terrorists were killed in a Saturday air raid in a town in Salah […]

Last week saw delegates from across the world make the pilgrimage to the snowy heights of Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. The hosting of this January ritual is another sign of a gradual return to a pre-pandemic normal for global diplomacy – and kicked-off a calendar that is shaping up to […]

Skift Take A big shift is about to happen in global tourism. Listen in for a conversation about India’s potential to change the industry. Rafat Ali India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country later this year, as China begins to decline and India’s population growth shows no sign of slowing […]

Archaeologists have uncovered rare, printed fabrics dating back around 1,300 years. While the fabrics had originated in the East, they were found in an Israeli dump! It is the first evidence of a previously unknown ancient ‘Israeli Silk Road’. The valuable fabrics were discovered by an interdisciplinary team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Ben-Gurion […]

A UN delegation recently visited Afghanistan and issued a warning to the country’s de facto rulers that isolating women will also lead to isolation of the country as a whole. The delegation urged the international community to support Afghan women, particularly in light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country, as per a report from […]

163,091 complaints were filed on the police website, totaling nearly 27.3 billion baht in damages from March 1 to December 31 of last year while 51% of these complaints are about overseas contact center gangs, 40.5% concerning domestic online scams, and 8.5% regarding other cybercrimes. The government has disclosed that nearly 60,000 bank accounts were […]