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Higher sugar prices pose new threat to food inflation
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/03/2023
» Sugar, consumed in everything from chocolate to fizzy drinks and baked products, is becoming ever more expensive, raising costs for the industry and keeping up pressure on global food inflation.
Working from home recommended in smoggy Bangkok
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/01/2023
» Authorities have urged Bangkok residents to work from home and wear respirator masks outdoors as air pollution level worsens in the capital.
Govt targets 30% electric-car production to tackle pollution
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/02/2021
» Thailand will target having electric vehicles account for 30% of car production by the end of the decade, as part of efforts to tackle toxic air pollution.
Space data maps China’s business recovery from virus
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/03/2020
» TOKYO: Rising Chinese pollution levels measured from space are showing a gradual but uneven industrial pickup after the economic slowdown caused by the nation’s fight to contain the deadly novel coronavirus.
Malaysia to return 42 containers of waste to UK
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/11/2019
» Malaysia will return 42 containers of illegal plastic waste to the UK, which has agreed to take them back, as the Southeast Asian nation continues its fight against becoming the world’s dumping ground for trash.
Tear gas, 'live rounds' fired as tens of thousands protest in Hong Kong
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/10/2019
» HONG KONG: Police shot tear gas volleys at protesters as simultaneous rallies raged across Hong Kong, including a march through the city centre, hours after celebrations for a holiday marking 70 years of Communist rule in China began in Beijing.
Haze leaves Indonesians, Malaysians gasping for air
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/09/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesia opened temporary clinics to treat thousands of people suffering from acute respiratory illness in the haze struck regions as authorities stepped up efforts to douse forest and peatland fires threatening air quality in parts of Southeast Asia.
Malaysia to fight smog with cloud seeding
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/09/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to carry out cloud seeding in central Selangor state and parts of the peninsular to fight the haze sweeping the region, the Star newspaper reported, citing government deputy minister Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis.
Electricity billionaire building Tesla of Thailand
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/06/2019
» It’s the epitome of a closed circuit: the utility helping power one of Southeast Asia’s biggest cities is building electric cars, batteries and charging stations for the nascent market, and then supplying the juice to keep them all running.
Energy mogul becomes billionaire as IPOs revive
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/11/2017
» A well-timed decision more than a decade ago to abandon coal in time for the natural-gas boom is poised to make Sarath Ratanavadi the country’s newest billionaire.