Time ripe for a review

After two years of virtual celebrations due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Asean Secretariat held an in-person celebration on Aug 8 at its headquarters in Jakarta to mark the Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s 55th anniversary.Continue Reading

Vietnam’s multi-pronged battle against climate change

The particular outlook for Vietnam’s drive toward climate-change adaptation initiatives are now being tested in Hanoi, as the government mulls over plans in order to rebalance the energy blend between renewables plus coal-fired electricity plant life. Despite the emerging part of civil society, disagreements on the 10-year Power Development Strategy drafts are impeding clean-energy development plus calling into query the […]

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With us or against us amid a Taiwan war

Almost a month since ALL OF US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and China’s ballistic response, neighboring Southeast Asia is bracing, calculating and hedging for a potential superpower conflict in its all of a sudden destabilized backyard. Views in the region appear to be split up into three distinct camps. First are the optimists who are downplaying the warning […]

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Surge launches its seventh cohort of 15 Southeast Asian and Indian startups adopting bolder approaches

One-third have one or more female founder, other people 2nd/3rd time creatorsTill date, Rise startups have raised over US$1. 7bil follow-on funding Surge, Sequoia India & Southeast Asia’s speedy scale-up program, offers launched its seventh cohort, featuring thirty seven founders across fifteen early-stage startups.Rise has grown fast in the last three…Continue Reading