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World must step in to help
Oped, Ian Martin & Charles Petrie, Published on 24/04/2021
» Today, Asean is to deliberate on possible courses of action regarding Myanmar. Across the country, brave people, many of them children, are being murdered daily; health services are ceasing to function in the middle of a pandemic; the economy is collapsing and every well-informed analyst predicts only a future of deepening civil war, chaos and further outflows of refugees.
Technology can end waste woes
Oped, IAN CHRISTESEN, Published on 19/11/2020
» World Toilet Day might not sound like the most exciting of international commemorations. But, given that around 780 million Asians are forced to defecate in the open, and that approximately 80% of wastewater across the region is returned to the environment untreated, the annual marker does highlight one of the more immediate and pressing concerns faced by the region, and the planet.
Is Asia a rising star or a poster child for disaster?
News, Janice Ian Manlutac, Published on 07/07/2018
» Emerging Asia, which covers India, China, and Southeast Asia, will be revelling in an economic growth rate of 6.3% annually from 2018 to 2022, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). But there's a hitch: Asia is also waist-deep in alarming projections of deaths, damage to livelihoods and property, and worsening inequality because of disasters and climate change. Asia's robust economic growth is not underwritten.