Startups from Singapore and Canada claimed the top prizes in a record-breaking year for entries at the global sustainability innovation competition. Ideas to passively cool cities as well as store and ...

As Malaysia takes on the Asean chairmanship in 2025 under the theme of ‘Inclusivity and Sustainability’, it does so amid rising global polarisation – marked by rising trade tensions and deepening ...

Lebanon has been in the grips of unyielding crises since its economy imploded in 2019. The war between Israel and armed group ...

Indigenous Aeta protesters blockaded the trail to the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, a popular tourist attraction in an area ...

The number of dangerously hot days for pregnant women doubled between 2020 and 2024 in 90 per cent of countries studied.

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty marks a turning point in transboundary water diplomacy with Pakistan – and ...

A right-to-care programme in Quezon City, the Philippines’ most populous city, could be a litmus test for the success of the ...

Overfishing in Southeast Asia’s coastal waters is a long-standing concern, but recent research suggests a more optimistic ...

For the first time, the G20 group of the world’s biggest economies has reached a multilateral agreement on principles to ...

The Japanese megabank still expects growing domestic demand for the gas to decarbonise transport and industrial sectors, ...

The “wealthiest 10 per cent” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65 per cent of the 0.61°C increase in global ...

TMC is using a loophole in the US 1980 Deep Seabed Act to bypass United Nation rules on navigational rights, marine research ...