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Giving a Voice to Young Water Leaders
“The Singapore International Water Week and Young Water Leaders Summit are a perfect opportunity for youth to not only learn more about the Singapore water story, but also play an important role in a leading water conference.”
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- Environment, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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Myanmar enterprise tries to make trash trendy
"We're trying to change the way of thinking that recycled things are old and dirty," explains Canadian volunteer and product developer Debra Martyn.
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- Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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CARE Enterprises and Bamboo Capital Form For-Profit Subsidiary
Bamboo Capital Partners and CARE Enterprises announced a strategic partnership, focused on businesses serving people living in poverty in South and Southeast Asia.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Singapore, India to boost fintech collaboration
The two Asian countries, which already have partnered on cross-border payment services, will create a joint working group to explore opportunities for further collaboration in fintech.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- fintech
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China’s agricultural paradigm shift
China’s agricultural support policies are moving towards marketised institutions, after a decade of state subsidies for direct production resulted in oversupply.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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China’s Ant Financial raises $10 billion at $150 billion valuation
Ant’s first fundraising targeting global money values the firm at $150 billion, the people said, compared with about $60 billion after its previous fundraising in April 2016.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares
The future of consumer payments may not be designed in New York or London but in China. There, money flows mainly through a pair of digital ecosystems that blend social media, commerce and banking—all run by two of the world’s most valuable companies.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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The 2 biggest things Silicon Valley misunderstands about China, according to a top Alibaba exec
"It is very clear now that true innovation is emerging from these markets," said Wong, who grew up in Palo Alto, California, and has worked at Alibaba for more than a decade.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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