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Special Reports

This section features in-depth special reports by our editorial team on various issues related to sustainable development in the region and beyond.

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More men than women have bank accounts in the Philippines. But a growing trend of females running small businesses in Surigao del Sur in Mindanao show that this gap could narrow.

8 Mar 2022

Women sift sand, hunting for tiny plastic pellets and other debris still washing ashore since the sinking of the X-Press Pearl, a vessel containing chemicals and plastics, in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Six months after the sinking of the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl off the coast of Colombo, local communities are trying to recover from one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

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Trying to lead a more sustainable lifestyle is often fraught with controversy, contradiction and hypocrisy, and tackling big problems like climate change and social inequality can seem futile. But there are some things you can do to make a difference in the Year of the Tiger. Here are 22 of them...

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A deluge of plastic waste washed over the island of Batasan in Tubigon, Bohol in the aftermath of the country's deadliest typhoon in December. The piles of debris are a grim reminder of the country's chronic marine trash problem.

4 January 2022

Philippines Typhoon Rai_Surigao City

28 December 2021

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16 December 2021

Youth A-List 2021

13 December 2021

Cracked earth; climate crisis

23 September 2021

Oil platform, Mumbai, India

7 September 2021

Filipino-made electric tricycles

29 June 2021

A wall decorated with zoo animals masks construction on the other side.

31 May 2021

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30 April 2021

CleanTech solar engineers

2 February 2021

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15 January 2021

11 December 2020

Eco-Business A-List 2020

Eco-Business Youth A-List 2020

23 October 2020

Data centre Digital Realty

6 October 2020

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

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