The Indonesian government inaugurated a waste-to-energy power plant in Cilacap, Central Java, worth USD 6 million. The refuse-derived fuel (RDF) facility is a pilot project to improve Indonesia’s waste management and smoothen the country’s transition from coal to...
Hong Kong’s The One Smart City Development Ltd (TOSC) via its subsidiary Wide Plus Smart City Sdn Bhd (WP), has signed a joint venture agreement with Malaysia’s leading water engineering company Salcon Bhd through its wholly-owned subsidiary Salcon Engineering Bhd to...
The Indonesian government is preparing a regulation on domestic carbon trading as part of the country’s commitment to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. During last year, the government has been deliberating on an emission-trading system for a domestic carbon...
The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) in Malaysia plans to issue an open tender for local and foreign companies to have at least six waste-to-energy (WTE) plants by 2021. The exercise will begin in September this year in the states of Melaka, Johor (two...
The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) are collaborating to strengthen Pasay City’s household waste management and improve Pasig River’s water quality. The three-year project is estimated to cost PHP 35.5...
Four industry leading companies, Keppel Data Centres, Chevron, Pan-United, And Surbana Jurong signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing to work together and develop the first end-to-end decarbonization process in Singapore. The main focus of the...
Farmers in central Thailand have been adopting a new farming method under a pilot “sustainable rice platform” sponsored by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), the German government aid agency, in partnership with Thailand’s government....
HSBC Vietnam is extending a loan of USD 60 million to Duy Tan Plastics Corporation (Duy Tan), which will help the company develop the first stage of its plastics recycling factory, according to an agreement signed between the two in Ho Chi Minh City. The green loan...
The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, will ban single-use plastics starting on 1 July 2020. Based on the new regulation, shopping centers, supermarkets and traditional market must offer environmentally friendly shopping bag as an alternative. Besides offline stores, the...
Sunway Group, one of the biggest conglomerates in Malaysia, announced that it will build a 50,000-square-feet urban farming innovation hub named Sunway FutureX. The hub will be completed in the third quarter of 2020. The first of its kind in Malaysia, Sunway FutureX...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 126 million loan to the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to support the construction of a 15-kilometer (km) water transmission pipeline aimed at helping secure water supply for Metro Manila’s nearly...
Singapore-headquartered energy, marine and urban development group Sembcorp Industries announced in May 2020 that it has secured a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the city state’s national water agency, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), for a 60 MW...
