Malaysia

Malaysia’s IT centre aspires to become low carbon city
Malaysia’s high-tech township of Cyberjaya aims to reduce carbon emissions by 21 percent between now and 2020, according to Free Malaysia Today.
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Hydro group slammed for holding world congress in Sarawak
The International Hydropower Association (IHA), an industry body that claims to promote the ‘sustainable’ use of hydroenergy, has come under fire over organizing its upcoming World Congress in Sarawak. The Malaysian state is infamous for corruption and the disfranchisement of its indigenous peoples.
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Taib Mahmud
Watchdog calls for Sarawak’s Taib to step down pending probe
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
March 22, 2013
Global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International, is calling for the immediate resignation of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. “Those who are being investigated should resign first so that investigations can be carried out without any influence or interference by those in power. We hope that Prime Minister Najib Razak will call upon the Chief Minister of Sarawak to resign as Chief Minister until investigations by MACC will be completed,“ said Transparency International Malaysia Secretary-General Josie M Fernandenz in a television interview.
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Malaysia aiming for B10 biodiesel by mid-2014
Malaysia is aiming to introduce B10 biodiesel – a mixture of 10 percent palm biodiesel with 90 percent petroleum diesel – nationwide by the middle of next year, according to the country’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.
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Universiti Malaysia Sabah becomes conservation reference center
With the launch of a five-year EcoCampus master plan the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is set to become an environmental conservation reference center for other higher learning institutions in Malaysia.
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W2 Energy snaps up AM Biofules for Southeast Asia expansion
Canadian green technology company W2 Energy is acquiring a 51 percent of Malaysia’s AM Biofuels for USD5.5 million. W2 Energy is expanding its fuel business in Southeast Asia as it executes on its business plan of production, blending and distribution of bio and synthetic fuels.
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Malaysians eye 1 mln hectares of Philippine wetlands for palm oil
Read Full Story As if there wasn’t enough controversy surrounding palm oil in Asia already, environmental groups in the Philippines are now raising alarm bells over a plan to establish a one-million hectare plantation on top of what is thought to be the region’s largest wetlands in the Philippines. According to a report in the Manila Bulletin, quoting Mindanao Development Authority Secretary Lualhati Antonino, the plantation is backed by a Malaysian group led by the Putraya Chamber of Commerce and Industry and will be located least partially on Liguasan Marsh in Mindanao.
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Malaysia's Ranhill plans $332 mln public offer
The Malaysian energy and water company, Ranhill Energy and Resources is planning to float on Kuala Lumpur stock exchange by the second quarter of 2013.
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Malaysia’s Taib family assets face Swiss freeze
Assets held by Swiss banks on behalf of the Malaysian Taib family could be frozen after 20 Swiss MPs filed a motion in the country’s parliament. Geneva MP and lawyer Carlo Sommaruga, who is spearheading the move, has also lodged a criminal complaint, asking the Attorney General of Switzerland, Michael Lauber, to declare the Malaysian Taib family a criminal organization.
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Palm oil plantatation
Palm oil sector pins hopes on improving environmental record
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
January 07, 2013
With the year barely out of the gates, reports indicate a bumpy road ahead for palm oil producers, heavily concentrated in Malaysia and Indonesia, with demand faltering and further pressure being brought on the industry by environmentalists. Bloomberg reported today that a survey it had done suggest palm oil stockpiles in Malaysia were near record highs in December with inventories at about 2.53 million tonnes, barely changed from the 2.56 tonnes of the previous month.
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