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  • OPINION

    Saving the planet, making profit: a 'nexus' approach

    News, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Asean has put together an ambitious sustainable development agenda with its 2025 community vision. It has also played an important role in shaping the United Nations 2020 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda. If the 17 SDGs, especially SDG2 on food security, SDG 6 on water security, SF7 on energy security, SDG 12 responsible consumption and production and SDG 13 on combating climate change, are achieved, this will combine with the impact of global trends such as climate change to intensify the competition for resources -- energy, water, raw materials and land. There is a need for large scale investment and significant improvement in services in order to address supply shortages, increase general welfare and make profit. After all, there are 65 million people across the region with no access to modern energy sources, 48 million people Asean-wide with no access to clean drinking water, and another 78 million without adequate sanitation facilities.

  • OPINION

    When children go hungry

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Few things are sadder than the sight of a hungry child. My sadness turned to anger when I learned that corrupt adults were stealing food from the mouths of children in my own country.

  • THAILAND

    Brick-and-mortar comeback

    Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Digital disruption has clearly affected traditional retail business formats, but this doesn't mean brick-and-mortar is over in Thailand.

  • LIFE

    Starving kids of a future

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 11/06/2018

    » The public felt rage when they saw a video clip on social media wherein small students at Ban Tha Mai school in Surat Thani province were served khanom jeen with sprinkles of fish sauce as a school lunch. Nutrition-wise, it was a sad choice.

  • BUSINESS

    Visa predicts payment avenue boom by 2022

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 11/06/2018

    » The rise of new forms of Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), empowered by big data analytics, will lead to new methods of payment, with Visa Inc predicting 30 billion ways to pay and 400 million ways to be paid by 2022.

  • BUSINESS

    'Modicare' to the rescue

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Sunita Devi, 45, has been losing hope for her niece, 13-year-old Soni Kumari. The housewife from Bihar state has been camped on the pavement outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India's premier healthcare institute in New Delhi, since May 16.

  • BUSINESS

    Turned off in Asia

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Uruguay became the first country to legalise marijuana entirely in July last year. Residents over age 18 can smoke cannabis in public and purchase it either from a pharmacy or harvest a crop of up to six plants.

  • BUSINESS

    Huawei innovates to move up mobile value chain

    Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Huawei Technologies of China is riding a wave of innovations in its campaign to achieve premium status in mature smartphone markets in Asia, competing head-to-head with Samsung and Apple.

  • BUSINESS

    Adieu to the ATM?

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Hari Sivan smiles in acknowledgement when I suggest to him that the 15 years he spent as a specialist in payments at Citibank and DBS Bank helped to explain why he saw the business opportunity that eventually became soCash.

  • BUSINESS

    Ananda defiant

    Business, Published on 11/06/2018

    » Ananda Development founder Chanond Ruangkritya is confident the government will comply with the "rule of law" and allow the company to transfer condominium units at its contentious 6-billion-baht Ashton Asoke project to unit buyers after a half-year suspension.

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