Banda Aceh—Further heavy rain threatened Indonesia’s flood-ravaged island of Sumatra on Saturday as the governor of one hard-hit province warned that the death toll...
By Knut OstbyResident Representative ad interim,and Mohamed Shahudh,Economist
Recent events in the Philippines illustrate this growing vulnerability. Just recently, Typhoon Tino battered Central Visayas, including...
Padang, Indonesia—The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military...
Security Bank Corp. said Wednesday it had disbursed P99.4 billion in sustainable finance loans as of October 2025, exceeding its full-year 2025 target by...
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How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s...
HANOI – Rescuers plucked stranded people from the rooftops of submerged homes as widespread flooding inundated central Vietnam, where authorities said on Thursday at...
Vatican City, Holy See—Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged "concrete actions" on climate change and complained that some leaders lacked the will to act, as...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels to clean energy―“the cheapest source of new electricity...
"We haven’t learned anything and seem to be always starting from scratch"
GIVEN that we are considered the most vulnerable country to the effects of...
