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New AWS Region to Launch In Malaysia by 2024 With RM25.5 Billion Investment
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its presence in Malaysia by going live with the new AWS Region in Kuala Lumpur in 2024. AWS will invest RM …
Inside India’s new oil palm playbook
Nearly two decades back, M. V. Ramoji Rao, a farmer and dentist from Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, replaced a part of his sugarcane field with o…
Indonesia says 200,000 hectares of palm plantations to be made forests
Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the sta…
Southeast Asia’s rubber producers brace for new EU rules
The European Union (EU)’s rules aimed at stopping deforestation threaten widespread disruption for Southeast Asia’s rubber sector, from Ca…
‘Inflection point’: Google banks on clean energy, AI amid urgent need for global climate action
Big tech firms have emerged as the largest corporate buyers of renewable energy in the United States, driving up demand for clean energy in the world’…
Singapore’s City Energy eyes hydrogen imports from Malaysia by 2027
Singapore’s City Energy said on Tuesday it will conduct a feasibility study with Gentari, Petronas’ renewables unit, on a proposed pipelin…
Vietnam automaker sends EVs to Laos for electric taxi service
Vietnamese automaker VinFast on Friday sent 150 cars to neighboring Laos for the launch of an electric taxi service, months after starting a similar s…
Indonesia makes history, becomes first country to use palm oil-blended jet fuel for commercial flight
As a big player in palm oil production, Indonesia has set a global record with its first commercial flight using palm oil-blended jet fuel. This break…
Why the green, circular economy is key to beating the triple planetary crisis
We’re experiencing a triple planetary crisis: climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution. It is critical to quickly transitionto a gre…