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Financial transformation
Asia focus, Pattama Kuentak, Published on 04/07/2022
» The financial sector is on the cusp of yet another transformation. Customers emerging from Covid-19 are demanding new and better sets of services to meet their new consumption patterns, be it how they shop, eat, work or transfer money. It's a dramatic shift that is compelling banks to transform or risk being left behind.
Indonesia's green ambitions
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 01/11/2021
» Construction of the country's first floating solar power plant, along with other renewable energy installations, mark a new phase in Indonesia's green quest to phase out dependence on fossil fuel and achieve its goals of net zero emissions by 2060.
Women's work
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/10/2021
» Amid wave after wave of Covid-19 in Japan, Mariko, a college lecturer and mother, has been working and raising her four-year-old daughter in an apartment shared by a family of four in Tokyo.
Connecting with Laos
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 20/09/2021
» Landlocked but rich in natural resources and geographically diverse, Laos has a lot to offer. Significant investments from neighbours including China have helped the country achieve economic growth of 6-7% a year over the past decade. Yet, inadequate infrastructure and the absence of a skilled workforce are among the reasons Laos has yet to fulfil its potential.
Asean matters to America
Asia focus, W Audi Pattarapatumthong, Published on 30/08/2021
» The pandemic has been causing many parts of the world to drift away from each other amid distancing and lockdowns, but the US-Asean relationship is bucking the trend.
Battery boost
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 11/01/2021
» With a US$9.8-billion investment deal to develop an integrated electric vehicle (EV) battery industry, and the world's largest nickel reserves, Indonesia is taking another step toward its goal to become a major hub for the EV industry.
In the driver's seat
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 14/12/2020
» Ramesh Narasimhan has loved cars since he was young. The holder of an MBA from Australia's Monash University has turned his passion for cars into a successful career, and two decades on he still finds it fun to come to work every day.
A better alternative to Trump's WeChat ban
Asia focus, Shang-Jin Wei, Published on 24/08/2020
» Shortly after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order effectively banning the Chinese-owned social-media app TikTok, he issued a second order prohibiting "any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person … as identified by the Secretary of Commerce".
China's electric vehicle showdown
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 27/07/2020
» Nissan recently unveiled the Ariya, a new all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), the first of a new generation of electric vehicles intended to improve the performance of the struggling Japanese carmaker.
The Covid-19 debt deluge
Asia focus, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 06/04/2020
» Pandemics like Covid-19, alarming and destructive as they are, can serve a useful purpose if they remind everyone of the critical importance of public health. When a contagious disease strikes, even a society's most protected elites must worry about the health of neglected populations.