Singapore Opens Lab Aiming to Produce Hydrogen Fuel By Imitating Photosynthesis, Dominate Regional R&D The new facility is Singapore's latest bet on regional dominance in education, research, and development. In time, the U.S. may also be a competitor.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Google, Local Platforms Respond to Japan's 8.9 Earthquake Crisis Online tools help those at the heart of the disaster.
Updated Thu Mar 24, 2011
Deepwater Horizon: The Movie Participant Media plans on portraying the moments leading up to the BP oil spill disaster in an upcoming film.
Updated Fri Mar 11, 2011
Ahoy, Matey! South Africa Launches Pirate Satellite Network Pirates, pollution, and shipwrecks will all be monitored under the new Long Range Identification and Tracking system.
Updated Fri Mar 11, 2011
Gates, USAID, World Bank Invest $50 Million to Save At-Risk Mothers Saving Lives at Birth aims to propel innovation forward to save at-risk pregnant women in remote parts of the world.
Updated Thu Mar 10, 2011
Nearly 20% of Female Chinese Managers Are CEOs Among China's female workforce in managerial positions, 19% hold the title of CEO, according to the Grant Thornton Business Report released this week.
Updated Thu Mar 10, 2011
Driptech Makes a Splash as China Invests $600 Billion in Water Conservation The Palo Alto-based company is rapidly expanding in India and China with a simple tool to save farmers and governments large amounts of water and cash.
Updated Thu Mar 10, 2011
China's Health Care Reform Could Save Consumers $1.5 Billion The country recently announced plans to spend $26 billion on health care this year. It also wants to ban smoking from public spaces.
Updated Wed Mar 9, 2011
American Expat Helps Hong Kong Startups Find Footing Giants Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs dominate the metropolis. But is there now room for entrepreneurs?
Updated Wed Mar 9, 2011
Text to Change Takes on Child Trafficking The mobile for health industry in Africa continues to expand. "We can teach larger organizations a lot," the group's founder tells us. "We move really fast."
Updated Wed Mar 9, 2011
Women Farmers a Force in Fighting Global Food Shortages: Report Women can help prevent hunger, says the United Nations on International Women's Day.
Updated Tue Mar 8, 2011
Sleepy Kochi, India, Gets a "SmartCity" A 246-acre IT park is to be built in the Southern state of Kerala.
Updated Mon Mar 7, 2011
U.K. Launches Growth and Innovation Fund The fund will target businesses that need to innovate from the inside out.
Updated Mon Mar 7, 2011
When Do-Gooders Go Viral SeeYourImpact.org rewards acts of micro-charity with photographs and stories of the impact donors make. Here's how the non-profit took the simple idea of storytelling to improve operations--and stand out in the crowd.
Updated Fri Mar 4, 2011
China Threatens Death Penalty for Food Safety Violations China hopes stiffer sentences force domestic dairy producers to clean up their acts--and better compete with foreign imports.
Updated Thu Mar 3, 2011
China Plans to Make Plans to Address Climate Change Climate change, water conservation, and pollution top the agenda of the emerging nation.
Updated Thu Mar 3, 2011
A Facebook for Patients: IBM's Medical Social Network Gets an Upgrade An expanded portal lets patients connect better with the right information--and with one another.
Updated Thu Mar 3, 2011
As Rising Seas Swallow Kiribati, World Bank Throws a $20 Million Life Preserver Threatening to swallow the country whole, climate change is taking its toll and the World Bank is giving a much-needed buffer.
Updated Wed Mar 2, 2011
China Looks to Control Traffic Congestion With Cell Phones Beijing's unfortunate history of traffic jams provides just the motivation the government needs to start tracking vehicles more closely.
Updated Wed Mar 2, 2011
Fruit Tree Biomass Waste Turns Into Energy Source for Malaysia The country's leading sustainable players in the palm oil industry are now turning to their own waste for power.
Updated Tue Mar 1, 2011
