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As Singapore considers joining a China-led body on artificial intelligence, analysts say membership would give the city state a bigger say in global governance matters related to the technology but may invite an unfriendly response from Washington.
Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo revealed in parliament earlier this week that Singapore had received an invitation to join the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (Waico). Singapore would consider the…

Philippine rescuers recovered ⁠30 bodies from a burned-out ferry on Friday, raising the death toll from the blaze to 35, authorities said.
Firefighters found the remains after they gained access to the vessel for the first time, having extinguished a fire that had hampered search and rescue efforts since Wednesday night.
Responders in protective suits were seen carrying black body bags from a small boat onto a coastguard vessel, video footage released by the coastguard showed.
Thick smoke and…

Government proposals to create a more streamlined corporate reporting framework could reduce duplication and make compliance more proportionate, particularly for private and smaller companies, an expert has said.

Ireland’s Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE) has opened a consultation on proposals to align the country’s Offshore Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS) with new EU requirements for renewable energy support schemes.

Sophisticated AI tools that act autonomously could “largely run” Britain’s energy system in future, according to a “plausible” but “stretching scenario” explored by the UK government.

The ocean looks like peace from afar and truth up close, they say. But beneath the waves, the map of the world’s oceans is far less settled than it looks. Today, dozens of sea borders remain unresolved. Like so many conflicts, they owe their origins to complicated questions of where one country’s territory ends, and another’s begins.
Many involve overlapping claims to areas rich in resources; and a disproportionate number concern the waters of the Global South. Africa’s coastline is a stark…

Individuals and companies that support unlawful mining in South Africa can expect a tougher enforcement environment under proposed amendments to the country’s mining legislation, experts have said.

Six orangutans including two nursing infants have been rescued from fires raging on Borneo island in the past week, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said on Thursday, bringing the total to 15 in a month.
The apes were saved from plantations in deep rural West Kalimantan province, on the Indonesian part of the island, where they got stuck after fires cut off access to their forest home, according to the forestry ministry and the YIARI wildlife rehabilitation foundation.
A large fire was…

Draft legislation aimed at preventing the development of “artificial superintelligence systems” within the UK and beyond has been introduced into the UK parliament.

Indonesia is facing ⁠a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, with carbon dioxide readings currently the highest in the world, data has shown.
Fire emissions from Indonesia from September 1 to September 7 reached 19.7 million metric tons, overtaking Russia this week and making up more than a third of the global total, according to Fire Emissions Watch, a portal developed by the European Union’s Copernicus…