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Follow the science
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2024
» Re: "Don't fault African nations for producing more oil", (Opinion, Feb 2).
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Beijing bank may finance megaproject
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/02/2024
» The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is interested in financing Thailand's Land Bridge megaproject, says Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
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AIIB serves China's Communist Party: Canadian former executive
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» TOKYO - China's ruling Communist Party dominates the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and uses it to further its interests, a former executive has alleged in claims that prompted Canada to suspend participation in the institution.
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IES agrees loan for Laos’s first wind project
Published on 01/03/2023
» IES has inked a USD692 million loan agreement for the iconic 600MW "Monsoon Wind Power Project" in Lao PDR, the largest renewable energy plant in Southeast Asia positioned as a key platform for regional connectivity and decarbonization
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How the West should engage China
News, Published on 06/06/2022
» The world order is at risk of a lasting split, with the United States and its allies on one side, and China and its partners on the other. As US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted at an Atlantic Council event last month, this outcome is far from desirable, and the US must work with China to prevent it. But, practically in her next breath, Yellen advocated actions that could thwart such an effort.
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Govt told to balance superpower relations
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/03/2022
» The president of the Council for Peace and Asian Reconciliation is urging the government to balance its relations with China and the United States for the good of the kingdom.
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China's path to net zero
Asia focus, Published on 07/12/2020
» China is aiming to halt the rise in its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world's largest CO2 emitter to bringing its emissions into balance.
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The AIIB's transparency deficit
Asia focus, Published on 02/11/2020
» The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened for business in 2016 and rapidly established itself as a major multilateral development institution. It aims to become the world's leading financier of large-scale infrastructure by 2021. But the bank first needs to raise its game regarding timely public disclosure of its projects' environmental and social risks.
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China is committed to multilateralism
Asia focus, Published on 23/09/2019
» In recent years, China's lead role in establishing new multilateral institutions -- including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank -- has raised fears that the government aims to topple the existing world order. This interpretation misses a crucial point: China has benefited immensely from and continues to participate actively in -- and even ardently defend -- that very order.
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Connecting Asia
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 08/07/2019
» Infrastructure is one of the major catalysts for sustainable economic and social development in rapidly growing Asia. But financing the region's massive power, water, transport and telecommunications needs is becoming a growing challenge.
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