The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a welcome development, creating an Asian-focused alternative to Bretton Woods institutions to meet pressing needs in infrastructure financing Grace Leong THE STRAITS TIMES | May 14, 2015 WITH more than 50 countries signing up … Read More
Chua Mui Hoong THE STRAITS TIMES | April 12, 2015 University professors are busy people who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of hard slog to build up their credentials and their expertise. Yet some of them routinely … Read More
Kate Galbraith THE NEW YORK TIMES | November 12, 2014 Water flows from Irish taps for free, reflecting the abundance that pours from the skies. But the fiscally strapped Irish government is changing this by starting to charge citizens for … Read More
Rachel Nuwer BBC FUTURE | November 4, 2014 Somewhere between 1.8 million and 12,000 years ago, our ancestors mastered the craft of fire building. Anthropologists often cite this event as the spark that truly allowed us to become human, giving … Read More
Meera Senthilingam CNN | September 23, 2014 Could sewage be recycled to provide water that’s cleaner than what comes out of your tap? The place to find out is the small yet highly urbanized city-state of Singapore. The South-east Asian … Read More
Zee Yusri BORNEO BULLETIN | October 13, 2013 Brunei Darussalam remains a prime choice for exploratory fields or as a living laboratory for various researches that will generate new ideas or concepts for growth and development in terms of social … Read More
Sally Piri BRUNEI TIMES | October 12, 2013 Brunei Darussalam must look to significantly reduce its staggering per capita 450-litredaily consumption of potable water in stages over the next decade, a visiting professor from Singapore told the media yesterday. He … Read More
OOSKA NEWS | May 29, 2013 Singapore’s water management is a model for the rest of the world, but while much has been done, there is still room for improvement, according to Drs. Asit Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, two of the authors of … Read More
OOSKA NEWS | November 29, 2012 In 1969, Singapore’s then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew initiated a plan to clean up the polluted Singapore River, focusing on the removal or relocation of polluting sources and waterway clean-up. Over the course of … Read More
Megha Bahree WALL STREET JOURNAL | April 9, 2012 India’s water supplies might be drying up and the government is finally waking up to that fact. The question remains, though, if its efforts will be sufficient to avert a possible … Read More