SOUTH-EAST Asia’s cumulative solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is expected to triple within the next 5 years, with large-scale solar projects dominating installation capacity before distributed s…
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Tech to upgrade financial instruments in Malaysia
Blockchain technology has been around for over ten years. However, business leaders across the world still struggle to understand it. As a result, the seemingly limitless potential of the technology h…
Singapore Sees Greener Future in Trading Power With Neighbors
Singapore’s state-owned power grid operator wants to build more connections to neighboring countries to tap their greater potential for renewable energy. Nations like Malaysia and Indonesia have ample…
Commodity Market Report – 4 Nov 2019
Gold prices traded in sideways last week while trapped within the large range of USD1475 – USD1525 /oz. This week, we aim for no change in this market sentiment as the market is caught in mixed activi…
Weekly RUBBER Report – 4 Nov 2019
Market Fundamentals: Rubber prices edged marginally higher last week due to the softening of Dollar Index. The positive news of trade agreement in November between U.S. and China resolving the dispute…
China-India Plus: Is it in Nepal’s interest?
“The two leaders also agreed to expand ‘China-India Plus’ cooperation, push forward facilitation of regional inter-connectivity, and work with other related parties to strike the Regional Compre…
Sit down, shut up and hang on – The Asian century is here
In the nineteenth century, the world was ‘Europeanised’. In the twentieth century, it was ‘Americanised’. This century it is all about being ‘Asianised’. With more than half of the world’s population,…
India’s Act East policy to get fresh impetus
India’s Act East policy is set to get fresh impetus, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi articulating the government’s plans to transform India’s northeast region into a gateway to southeast…
Wind energy in Vietnam: targeting 6 GW of installed wind power capacity by 2030
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has launched a Policy Pulse report on Vietnam, which provides qualitative analysis of the political and macroeconomic headwinds steering the wind power sector and…
Bangladesh Booms in a Sluggish World Economy
Ongoing trade disputes between the United States and China have stymied global markets and shaken the established order. Projected economic growth in South Asia has fallen 1.1 percentage points in jus…