ASEAN-US Dialogue demonstrates US commitment to Indo-Pacific: official
Jakarta (ANTARA) – United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink said that the ASEAN-US Dialogue was held in Jakarta to demonstrate the strong US commitment to the Indo-Pacific region.
ASEAN, EU to enhance cooperation on Environment and Climate Change
BANGKOK, 9 July 2019 – At the launch of a High-Level Dialogue on Environment and Climate Change in Bangkok yesterday, Senior Officials from ASEAN and the European Union (EU) reaffirmed the commitment to strengthen cooperation between ASEAN and the EU on shared regional and global challenges related to protection of the environment and climate change. […]
ASEAN, Korean youth cooperate on smart cities
More efficient waste and traffic management systems are among the best practices that ASEAN can adopt from Korea. The two areas were among the fields in which policy recommendations were proposed at the recently concluded 2019 ASEAN-Korea Youth Network Workshop which gathered 80 university students from 13 countries for 10 days of lectures, site visits, […]
Asean: LYS Energy Group and Talesun Solar join forces to develop growing clean energy market
LYS Energy Group(LYS), the leading Singapore home-grown Solar Independent Power Producer (IPP) has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese top solar cell and module manufacturer Talesun Solar (Talesun), to support both companies’ expansion of bolstering clean energy adoption by commercial and industrial sector (C&I) in the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) regions.
ASEAN’s first cold energy-based air separation unit opens in Rayong
BIG and PTT will open Southeast Asia’s first air separation unit that uses cold energy from the condition changing process of liquefied natural gas (LNG) late this month.
Asean’s Power Landscape Expected to Transform in 2019
Jakarta. Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are on a path to transform their power landscapes as energy demand continues to rise to match the region’s economic growth potential, a power management company said this week. “In the pursuit of a robust digital economy, Asean is heralding in an era of unprecedented […]
Asean’s road to a green economic recovery
In Southeast Asia, Covid-19 has worsened the already grim economic growth in 2019 that resulted from US-China trade tensions and Brexit uncertainties.
ASEAN’s energy transition on the right track
Yesterday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the fifth edition of their Energy Transition Index (ETI), ranking 115 economies on how well they are able to balance energy security and access with environmental sustainability and affordability. The report considered both, the current state of the countries’ energy systems as well as their readiness to adapt […]
ASEAN’s future power source
The gears of industry would not turn if not for power. In the modern world, we have come to depend on electricity generated from traditional fossil fuel resources like coal. However, amid a global awareness of the dangers of fossil fuels to our environment, we have since embarked on a paradigm shift towards renewable energy. As […]
ASEAN’s insatiable demand for energy
As Southeast Asia becomes one of the fastest developing regions in the world, concerns over its energy security is fast growing. Southeast Asia has a combined population of over 600 million people and an economy worth nearly US$3 trillion. Furthermore, the World Economic Forum (WEF) forecasts that the region will become the fifth largest economy in […]