The Business Times

UN sustainable development goals

Opinion & Features

Don’t ask what nature can do for you

Over three billion people currently live in countries that spend more on debt payments than on essential services like health or education.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Developing countries need a new approach to long-term financing 

A new year offers a fresh opportunity. Instead of trying to do it all, focus first on the interventions that yield the highest ROI for people, the planet and future generations.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

A New Year’s resolution for progress: Focus on what works

The “Keep Singapore Clean” campaign mobilises communities to take responsibility for keeping their neighbourhoods clean, with residents organising regular clean-up activities and promoting anti-littering behaviour.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Singapore’s sustainability movement: How communities can make a difference

While the world has changed much over the years, a lot has stayed the same. Geopolitical rivalry between major powers remains one of the biggest risks to the world’s economy.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

A new development path for a new world?

A "sandfisher" worker, after collecting sand from the Ubangi river, in Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov 2023. Risking their lives and health, the so-called sandfishers dive deep into the murky depths, without any oxygen tank, to collect sand for the building industry. The poorer half of the world deserves opportunities to better their lives
Opinion & Features

Raiding development funding for climate

Patients diagnosed with tuberculosis in Maputo, Mozambique. TB has been treatable for more than 50 years, yet still kills more than 1.4 million people annually.
Opinion & Features

Making our donations (and at a larger scale, foreign aid) go further

To meet SDG 9 — ‘resilient infrastructure’ — the Democratic Republic of Congo will have to build more roads.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why the SDGs are a bad idea

The second Sustainable Development Goals summit in New York. Progress on the goals is happening at less than a quarter of the pledged speed.
Opinion & Features

The UN needs to prioritise the best development solutions

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres talks to the media during a press conference on sidelines of the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 September 2023. Indonesia hosts the 43rd ASEAN Summit and related summits from 05 to 07 September
ASEAN Business

Asean needs to be at frontline of changes to climate policies: UN chief

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More