Indonesia's first green, earthquake-proof hospital will be built as part of the University of Indonesia (UI) development plan for its new School of Medicine, in Depok, south of Jakarta, according to the Jakarta Globe.
Pakistan is seeking technological solutions for an unfolding water crisis, caused by depleting natural water resources and wastefulness, which is turning much of its land arid.
A high-speed rail network is not currently on the cards for Vietnam. The country's newly-appointed Transport Minister Dinh La Thang told the Vietnamese press that while it's a necessary transport system in an industrialised nation, Vietnam had more fundamental issues to deal with.
Beiqi Foton Motor Co Ltd, a Chinese bus manufacturing company, has signed a letter of intent with the government of the Pakistan province of Sindh for the provision and operation of 2,000 business powered by compressed natural gas (CNG).
Earlier this year the company was awarded contract for 111 CNG buses for Lahore city through Lahore Transport Company and these are expected on the road in November.
Metering company Itron will provide 250,000 residential smart water meters as part of an infrastructure upgrade project by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). The 18 month contract project is Itron's largest yet in India.
China is likely to raise the threshold for carmakers qualifying for incentives for fuel-efficient vehicles, after funding for the program ran dry far faster than expected, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday.
Panasonic Corporation has announced a two-year pilot energy project with the government of the Singapore to collaborate on the development and testing of a comprehensive household energy solution at Punggol Eco-Town.
As part of a campaign to improve Beijing's air quality, the Chinese government is offering drivers who scrap old cars or sell them to buyers outside the capital subsidies and cash to put toward a new vehicle.
There's a vast range of environmental issues that face cargo owners as they clean up their logistics process. Many of these companies have been focusing on reducing carbon emissions to meet regulation and to respond to growing consumer demands for lower carbon products.
The Climate Group China this week published a new report which takes the most innovative ideas from the country's leading green building projects, to suggest exactly how energy efficiency levels can be improved in the rest of China's buildings.
The 1,667-foot (508-meter) TAIPEI 101 tower has earned the US Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification, the highest level for energy efficiency and environmental design it was announced at a ceremony last week.
Singapore-listed United Envirotech Ltd, a water treatment and recycling solution provider in China, has bagged USD113.8 million in investment from an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the world's largest private equity companies.
More than half of China's outlets for releasing sewage into the ocean are excessively polluted, according to figures from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA).
Plans are underway to develop Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand's ancient former capital of Ayutthaya into an industrial eco-town, according to the Bangkok Post.
Nusajaya, a 24,000-acre real-estate development on the southwestern tip of the Malaysian peninsula, is working to become a "smart," digitally connected city, according to green technology website, GreenBang.
The Agricultural Development Bank of China said last week that it loaned 15.5 billion yuan (USD2.41 billion) for water facilities construction in the first half of this year.
The amount was higher than that of the same period of previous years, the bank said, expecting the full-year amount to exceed 30 billion yuan.
The bank said it is negotiating with the Ministry of Water Resources to sign a strategic co-operation contract in this area, aiming to establish a long-term co-operation mechanism to back the government's plan to improve water facilities.
The Chinese government will double its investment in the circular economy this year to 2 billion yuan (USD300 million) to support the national policies of energy conservation and emission reduction, a senior official said this week.
China's auto market will rise to 20 million units by 2015, with "booming" sales of green cars, Nissan Motor Co CEO Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday.
At a briefing in Beijing, he told reporters that Nissan would produce batteries and electric motors for emission-free vehicles in China.
The Japanese automaker, the largest Asian car manufacturer in China, said earlier on Tuesday that it plans to almost double its annual sales in this country to 2.3 million vehicles by the end of 2015.
Singapore's Ministry of Education, the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) and IBM are collaborating to install smart meters to track energy usage in 20. The computer giant is funding the S$121,000 (USD100,000) cost of the project, which is expected to be completed by August next year.
Toyota has leveraged its private investment in Tesla Motors and awarded the US plug-in electric vehicle maker a USD100 million contract to supply technology for the successful Toyota RAV4 marque.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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