Events such as the US-China trade war, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have accelerated this shift, leading to a marked deterioration in the global trade environment. Geopolitical competition …
An operational review of the Safeguard Policy Statement by the ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department found substantial gaps in safeguard delivery and safeguard failures at the project level due to lack …
First is cross-cultural collaboration. When Lee co-founded Musicus Society – an organisation that focuses on bringing together Hong Kong and international artists – with his sister Lee Chui-inn in 2010, …
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, routinely reports some of the highest mortality rates among the millions of foreigners who embark on the haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Indonesian …
The scale of the pile may be shocking, but the director of Redress’ circular fashion programme, Aurianne Ricquier, says it represents just a fraction of the volume of waste textiles …
A reporter from the Thai newspaper Matichon, who said they were on the Boeing 777, reported that the air conditioning malfunctioned. Over the next three hours, passengers began sweating and …
As It Happens6:45Vermont is going to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate change damage It’s high time the companies most responsible for climate change pay for the damage it …
Hosted by UC Berkeley’s California-China Climate Institute, the two-day event was joined by Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong officials as a joint delegation to promote the Greater Bay Area to …
“We believe that the dugongs represent abundance,” Ismaann, also the president of the Koh Libong tourism cooperative, told This Week in Asia. “But we also believe that the day they …
Historic flooding in southern Brazil may take a month to subside with more than half a million people out of their homes and warned not to return. “I have never …