Vietnam will remove its exemption from registration fees for electric vehicles (EVs). EV owners will be required to pay a registration fee based on the number of seats, which will be 50% of the fee for regular gasoline vehicles.
In this final installment of Rewiring Asia, RECCESSARY speaks with Walsin Lihwa—Taiwan’s first cable manufacturer to enter the subsea sector—and renewable energy supplier HDRE, which is expanding operations in the Philippines.
As AI becomes a bigger part of our daily lives, it is using an increasing amount of energy. TopoLogic, a Japanese startup from the University of Tokyo, is aiming to address this issue by leveraging a new material known as topological materials.
January 2025 was the warmest January on record, surpassing the previous record set by January 2024, according to satellite data from the EU’s Copernicus program.
Fertilizers help feed the world, but excessive use is poisoning water, polluting the air and accelerating climate change. Despite the damage fertilizers can cause, roughly a third of the world’s largest food companies don’t acknowledge any risk.
A new biofuels hub focused on Bio-Liquefied Natural Gas (Bio-LNG) will be established in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ), with the capacity to process 350,000 tons of Bio-LNG annually.
On Feb. 4, LEGO announced an investment of approximately DKK 19 million (about 2.6 million USD) in four carbon removal projects. The Danish toy giant aims to secure carbon credits through these initiatives as part of its commitment to achieving net-zero.
The country should approach gas-fired power development with caution, write the authors of a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) is a crucial source of funding for Indonesia’s coal phase-out efforts. Despite the U.S. stepping back from its leadership role under President Trump, Germany has confirmed it will take over the responsibility.
To achieve its net-zero target, the Malaysian government is adopting various carbon reduction technologies, with carbon capture set to present a development draft in March to help hard-to-decarbonize industries transition.
As Southeast Asia's economic growth accelerates, driven by its emergence as a manufacturing hub amid global geopolitical shifts, the development of renewable energy in the region is increasingly vital.