Ongoing anti-government protests across Asia are likely to persist and potentially intensify in 2021 as the authorities struggle to satisfy the protesters’ demands, especially amid the lingering impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Saif Islam.
S-RM asked John White, Head of Crisis Preparation, to give his insights into how businesses should be preparing themselves for the wide variety of threats climate change poses, whether these relate to the resource scarcity, adverse weather conditions, or physical security.
Over the past few months, protests triggered by a controversial bill which would allow extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China have paralysed Hong Kong. Markus Korhonen looks at how the protests have unfolded, and what commercial impacts they are having.