Category Archives: Infrastructure

In this podcast, I shared about: 1) Foreign investors eyeing businesses in Thailand as hotels face closure during new outbreak. Bodega Hostel Group bought out by Collective Hospitality Limited;  2) USAID helps Vietnam’s climate change fight with two new conservation and forest management projects, assisted by DAI Global and the World Wildlife Fund;  3) McDonald’s Philippines eyes 30 new stores for 2021 andContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 29 April 2021”

In this podcast, I shared about: 1) Mondelēz International‘s sustainability efforts in reducing plastic waste in Philippines and also its involvement with the Philippine Alliance for Recycling and Materials Sustainability (PARMS) and their strategy to reduce waste. 2) How 7ECO is integrating digital transformation into Vietnam’s agriculture sector and developing smart agricultural projects. 3) Timberland, a VF Company toContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 28 April 2021”

In this podcast, I share about:1) SEACEF with Clime Capital, invests in a solar and storage project in Vietnam; 2) Rojana Industrial Park Pcl (rojna) and Evlomo to build EV battery plant in Thailand; 3) Levi Strauss & Co. leads webinar on style and sustainability in Philippines; and 4) Mondelēz International and Olam to create the world’s largest sustainable cocoa farm. Follow me for more ofContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 27 April 2021”

In this podcast, I shared about:1) How chip fat is being replaced by the increasing use of palm oil in Southeast Asian countries, and how it might contribute to deforestation; 2) Fashion clothing’s suppliers in Asian region banding together through the Sustainable Textile of the Asian Region network, for better supplier terms; 3) Philippines PresidentContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 22 April 2021”

In this podcast, I shared about: 1) The Zero Waste Cities Challenge that’s funded by Huhtamaki, in Vietnam, South Africa and India; 2) Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts‘ Tree’s Earth Day Getaway campaign in Thailand; 3) Sustainability startups, Nanotronics Inc and Oro Handmade Innovations, recipients of Shell‘s LiveWIRE Acceleration Program in Philippines; and 4) Kerry Foods‘s new plant in Indonesia, withContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 21 April 2021”

In this podcast, I shared about: 1) The construction of Jawa 9 and 10 coal-fired plants by South Korea in Indonesia; 2) Philippines lifting restrictions on mining to put the country back on the investment map; 3) Hi tech shrimp farming in Vietnam and how it brings high profits to the Bac Lieu province thatContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 20 April 2021”

1) Vietnam – HCMC-based firm Trungnam Power puts its wind power plant in central Ninh Thuan Province into operation and it is considered as the country’s largest wind plant to date. 2) Thailand – HSBC offers green deposits to Indorama Ventures PCL and CP ALL Shop 7-11 in Thailand and expressed intent to improve depositors’ environmental, social and governance scores and help themContinue reading “Podcast: Latest developments on sustainability matters from Southeast Asia – 19 April 2021”