Haze triggers highest alert level in southern ASEAN zone: monitor
SINGAPORE: Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc's climate and fire monitor.
Malaysia banks on policy certainty, economic resilience to attract investment
BANGKOK: Malaysia is strengthening its business environment, policy certainty and economic resilience to attract long-term investment, with foreign and domestic direct investments reaching record highs, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.
MSCI gets set to remove Indonesia from global indexes
JAKARTA: Indonesia's stock market is no longer worthy of "emerging market" status, according to MSCI, and the index provider says it intends to cut it from a suite of products tracked by global investors, a major setback likely to send money fleeing.
Maybank, IIF push for greater capital mobilisation in sustainability drive
Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) have called for greater regional collaboration to mobilise capital for Asean's transition to a low-carbon economy.
Haze hinders efforts to battle the blaze
Indonesia's aerial firefighting efforts have been hampered for more than a week by poor visibility from the forest-fire haze, as the smoke continues to spread across South-East Asia.
Fires, cross-border haze: What can still be done
The haze has returned with alarming severity. In parts of Central Kalimantan, the air pollutant standards index breached 4,000 this week, more than 13 times the hazardous threshold, while provinces across Sumatra recorded levels exceeding 2,200.
Help Indonesia fight haze but don’t let plantation owners escape accountability
FROM TAN GIM TUAN, MCA Urban Affairs Bureau chairman, MCA Selangor Liaison Committee deputy chairman
AI boom in question, again
Asia is among the regions most vulnerable to an artificial intelligence (AI) correction, given its outsized role in supplying the chips, electronics and equipment underpinning the AI boom.
Who pays to stop the haze?
More than 200,000 pupils and students in Serian, Sarawak, have been caught in a cycle of closing and reopening of schools as the haze worsens and then temporarily clears.
Strengthening the manufacturing sector through diversified supply
Malaysia should strengthen its manufacturing resilience by improving visibility over critical inputs, diversifying sources of supply and building domestic and regional capacity in products where supply remains highly concentrated.
