18 August 2020 – Countries across Asia and the Pacific are using new technologies to contain the global pandemic and mitigate its impact, the UN’s regional socio-economic development arm has said, as governments and experts work together to identify ways…
Tag: Asia-Pacific
Film ‘No Dorai’ competes in Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Culture Desk Star Cineplex’s first feature film, No Dorai (Dare to Surf), will compete in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. This is the 14th edition of this Australia based awards. Films from 70 countries around the world will participate in…
Mitigating climate change may give Asia-Pacific a dev. boost
7 September 2019 Climate Change The urgent need to move towards a low carbon economy and build resilience, would not only mitigate the worst impacts of climate change in the Asia-Pacific, but also lift the region economically, according to the…
Reimagining ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ on Inequality in Asia-Pacific
By Srinivas Tata and Jaco Cilliers Bangkok, Thailand, (IPS) – It’s 1962, and in a modest Hong Kong neighbourhood, a poetic love story unfolds. Filmed almost twenty years ago, Wong Kar-wai’s seminal movie In the Mood for Love captured the…
Why can’t dynamic Asia-Pacific beat poverty?
By Shuvojit Banerjee and Poh Lynn Ng Bangkok, Aug 2019 (IPS) – Asia and the Pacific is lauded globally for its rapid economic growth over recent decades and has lifted 1.1 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990. Nevertheless,…
Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Dev: Issues addressed
3rd October, South and SouthWest Asian CSOs strategy meeting on SDGs Review of Goals relevant for the sub-region; critical success factors and challenges and there were Presentation on SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 11, SDG 13, SDG 13, followed by…