David Stanway

Climate change is highly likely to have contributed to the catastrophic glacier collapse that flooded parts of Nepal and Tibet in late August, killing around 1,400 people and ​leaving thousands still missing, scientists said on Thursday.

Indonesia is facing a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland ​on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, with carbon dioxide readings currently the highest in the world, data showed on Wednesday.

Indonesia is inspecting 19 companies linked to wildfires in ‌Sumatra and Kalimantan as the government ramps up efforts to stop the fires from spreading further, officials said on Monday.

Singapore will deploy S$220 million ($172.83 million) over three years to strengthen its fintech ecosystem and ​boost innovation and the adoption of technology across the financial ‌sector, the city-state's central bank announced on Monday.

As Indonesia's wildfire season intensifies, authorities are on high alert as they work to contain the damage and avoid the devastation that hit the archipelago in 2015, the last time it faced such severe "super-El Niño" weather conditions.

Nearly four months after taking office, Myanmar's junta chief turned president Min Aung Hlaing on Friday criticised the regional ASEAN bloc's peace plan and outlined his government's plans for the war-torn Southeast Asian ​country.

Searah, the joint venture energy company formed by Italy's Eni and Malaysia's Petronas, has started ​developing a floating gas facility to process ‌gas from its $11.8 billion North Hub project in Indonesia, the Indonesian government said.

India and Myanmar are working to deepen cooperation in the rare earths sector after visits to the southeast Asian country by Indian teams, ​with New Delhi seeking alternative supplies of a strategic resource ‌tightly controlled by China.

Myanmar junta chief turned president Min Aung Hlaing will make an ​official visit to Thailand on ‌August 6-7, the Thai foreign minister told AFP on Wednesday, marking the latest ​attempt by the war-torn country's ​new administration to gain international legitimacy.

The business licence of Network School, the "digital nomad" community founded in Malaysia by U.S. investor Balaji Srinivasan, has been revoked after an investigation ​into alleged immigration law violations, the chief minister of Johor state ‌said on Tuesday.