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Global impact assessment course puts theory into practice in Hangzhou, China
ICCROM - International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
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June 3, 2025
ICCROM, through its ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme and the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (WHITR-AP Shanghai), successfully delivered the...
World Crocodile Day 2025: How a saurian became the island of Timor
Down to Earth
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An organism that hunted the dinosaurs, the crocodile (and its cousins like the alligator, caiman and gharial) has changed little in design from that time. It is this body design that has spelt immense survival success for this species. Cultures...
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Sada Elbalad
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June 3, 2025
Wed 04 Jun 2025 | 12:01 AM How did a devout engineer and academic become a parliamentarian, party leader, Prime Minister, and leader of continental, partisan, and international organizations, ultimately being chosen as Secretary-General of the...
A Roadmap for Capitalizing on AI Transformation Opportunities in the Banking Sector
Banking Dive
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Resources Top 5: Vanadium Resources rockets on magnetite MoU
Stockhead
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June 17, 2025
Vanadium Resources has rocketed on signing an MoU for DSO magnetite supply from its South African project. Pic: Getty Images Vanadium Resources signs non-binding MoU to sell magnetite ore from its Steelpoortdrift project in South Africa A...
World Bank Approves US$2.1bn Investment Package for Indonesia; Here's the Detail
Tempo.co
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June 20, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The World Bank has approved two major investments with a total blended finance package worth US$2.128 billion, or roughly about Rp34 trillion to create jobs, boost economic growth, and improve access to clean energy across...
Asean Higher Education Minister meeting kicks off June 19 in Langkawi
The Malaysian Star
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June 19, 2025
LANGKAWI: The Asean Higher Education Ministers' Roundtable: Envisioning the Next Decade and Beyond has officially begun. The meeting started at about 2.30pm on Thursday (June 19), attended by Asean Higher Education Minister and delegates. The...
Finder Energy’s SLB alliance puts KTJ on first oil fast-track
Stockhead
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June 17, 2025
Finder Energy’s alliance with SLB will fast-track key components of the KTJ project FEED. Pic: Getty Images Finder Energy forms strategic alliance with SLB to fast-track drilling and subsea components of KTJ project FEED These items expected to be...
Sunda Energy moved closer to Chuditch drilling - ICYMI
Proactive UK
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April 26, 2025
Sunda Energy PLC (AIM:SNDA) this week announced it had secured funding for drilling at its Chuditch gas field project. It will retain a 30% working interest in the project after a farm-out to TIMOR GAP, with a cost exposure of 28% on the upcoming...
Surrealing in the Years: Dublin city needs a new motto. I have some suggestions.
The Journal
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June 21, 2025
AT THE END of last week, the Irish Bishops’ Drugs and Alcohol Initiative dropped the ultimate Surrealing in the Years story when they announced they would be adding vaping to the infamous Confirmation pledge. The story had everything. A...
Migration, My Mother, and Me
Utne Reader
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In the day after the 2016 election, I found myself strangely unmoored. I, like many others, was unprepared for the outcome and unsure of what to do. On the Wednesday following Trump’s victory, after a largely sleepless night of watching the...
Algae bricks and oyster shell walls: what’s on the horizon for eco-friendly building in Australia?
The Guardian
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June 14, 2025
The average person might simply see green goop, but when Ben Hankamer looks at microalgae, he sees the building blocks of the future. Prof Hankamer, from the Institute of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, is one of a growing...
What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
Climate Home News
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June 17, 2025
The 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change famously does not name the controversial root cause of the very problem it is intended to solve: fossil fuels. In the year of its 10th anniversary, Gillian Cooper, political director of the Fossil...
Nobel Laureate, other dignitaries to discuss politics at Femi Badejo’s 70th birthday
Premium Times
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March 1, 2025
President Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) is one of the dignitaries expected to grace the 70th anniversary symposium in honour of Femi Badejo, a professor, on March 4, 2025. Mr Ramos-Horta, who is also Nobel Laureate for...
Türk Updates Human Rights Council: "We Need The Strongest Possible Defence Of International Law And Human Rights"
Scoop
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk 59th session of the Human Rights Council Global Update Geneva, Monday 16 June 2025 Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, As we meet, conflicts are spiraling. The...
Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: US reviewing the AUKUS submarine deal
The Daily Blog
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June 16, 2025
The Trump Whitehouse has started a review of the AUKUS submarine deal. The US$ 245 billion tripartite deal between Australia, the UK and the US creates a plan for these nations to collaborate and develop the next generation of nuclear-powered...
Business : Energy Transition: ASEAN Countries Urged To Tap Regional, International Cooperation
Bernama
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June 18, 2025
By Ammar Shafiq Hamzah KUCHING, June 18 (Bernama) -- ASEAN member countries should take advantage of the various cooperation opportunities and support offered by regional and international partners to advance the transition to renewable energy....
Sarawak showcases clean energy potential at Asean energy meet
Borneo Post
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June 18, 2025
Mad Zaidi speaks to the media. – Photo from Information Department KUCHING (June 18): The 43rd Asean Senior Officials Meeting on Energy (SOME) provided an excellent platform for Sarawak to highlight its potential leadership in the regional clean...
Is the tide turning for ocean protection? UN conference ends with record attendance and momentum for high seas treaty
Eco-Business
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June 18, 2025
Co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, the UN Conference convened to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 – to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources – drew over 15,000 participants from 120...
Biosecurity training centre to get academics out of labs, into paddocks
The Land Newspaper
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May 12, 2025
At least 28 organisations have partnered with the centre, including national, state and territory agriculture departments, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the Timor-Leste Government, as well as industry bodies such as Hort Innovation...