Amazon’s Jeff Bezos net worth increases by $13B in one day Aug 5, 2020 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos added a record $13 billion to his fortune on Monday amid a coronavirus-fueled boom for his e-commerce empire.A 7.9 percent jump in Amazon’s stock price helped the world’s riches... Read more
How COVID-19 Could Impact the Clean Energy Transition Aug 3, 2020 IISD experts Peter Wooders and Ivetta Gerasimchuk met virtually to discuss the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic could have on the clean energy transition, including renewable energy and consumer and ... Read more
Climate and Clean Energy Opportunities for Southeast Asia Webinar Jul 30, 2020 Hosted by: PFAN (Private Financing Advisory Network) and REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Who are they? PFAN : P rivate F inancing A dvisory N etwork (PFAN) is a global network of climate... Read more
Malaysians express relief, concerns over Aug 10 reopening of border with Singapore Jul 29, 2020 JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - News about the reopening of the Malaysia and Singapore border beginning Aug 10 has been received with sighs of relief from citizens of both countries. Howeve... Read more
The World Is Drinking Less Coffee Jul 28, 2020 IN A work-from-home world, hitting the local cafe for a daily caffeine fix has become a ritual of the now-forgotten past. And no matter how much kitchen brewing consumers take up, that just can't seem... Read more
Resorts World Sentosa to retrench staff amid 'devastating impact' of Covid-19 pandemic Jul 23, 2020 SINGAPORE - Integrated resort operator Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) is laying off a significant number of employees as it grapples with the “devastating impact” the coronavirus pandemic has had on the ... Read more
Where Are The Jobs? Jul 20, 2020 AT Resorts World Singapore, one of the country's largest employers, the axe fell hard and fast this week.The integrated resort operator announced a retrenchment exercise said to number in the thousand... Read more
Business Takes Off as Travel Restrictions Come Down Jul 13, 2020 Business travellers took to the skies in numbers after the Government loosened travel restrictions this month, early indications suggest. Data from a number of Travel Management Companies last week r... Read more
Solar Tariffs May Plunge Further: Analysts Jul 8, 2020 Solar tariffs set a new record of Rs 2.36 per unit in a 2000 MW auction conducted by the Solar Energy Coporation of India, the ministry of new and renewable energy's nodal agency responsible for condu... Read more
Coronavirus: Why Singapore turned to wearable contact-tracing tech Jul 6, 2020 Singapore's TraceTogether Tokens are the latest effort to tackle Covid-19 with tech. But they have also reignited a privacy debate. The wearable devices complement the island's existing contact-tracin... Read more
Driving CO2 Emissions to Zero (And Beyond) With Carbon Capture, Use, And Storage Jul 1, 2020 Growing concerns about climate change are intensifying interest in advanced technologies to reduce emissions in hard-to-abate sectors, such as cement, and also to draw down CO2 levels in the atmospher... Read more
Amazon's $3B Embrace of Cleantech Jun 29, 2020 On the first day of this summer, temperatures reached 100 degrees in the Arctic Circle. It's an easy thing to forget about these days, what with a pandemic going on, a presidential election looming, a... Read more