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When we think of ESG - often environmental considerations and sustainability are the first to come to mind.

Looking into 2022, Fitch anticipates that the range of social factors within ESG will expand beyond these topics and become more central to sustainability strategies for a wide range of bond issuers from corporates to sovereigns.

To find out more and what this means for investors Rachel Kelly speaks to  Nneka Chike-Obi, Director of ESG Research at Fitch.

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Food waste at East Coast Lagoon Food Village is being converted to biogas to generate electricity - a first for Singapore's hawker centres. On Sustainable Singapore, Rhianne Lovell-Boland speaks to Associate Professor Tong Yen Wah from the NUS Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering who shares more about how it works, and its environmental impact.

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Duff & Phelps released the Transaction Trail Report, examining the increase in capital market transactions seen in 2021 across Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. While fundraising for tech firms led the way yet again, the differences seen across these 3 countries were rather interesting. Srividya Gopal, Managing Director at Duff & Phelps, joined us on Prime Time to discuss the report's major findings.

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In The Straits Times' The Big Story, multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore on the vaccination-differentiated measures that will be expanded from February next year. 

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In The Spotlight, Prime Time's Rachel Kelly spoke to Alexander Akerboom,  Political Analyst, Global Risk Insights for the latest updates on the Omicron variant in the UK and Europe.

Epidemiologists say Omicron will become the dominant coronavirus variant in Denmark this week, driving a rise in cases to record levels and offering a warning to the rest of Europe about the more transmissible mutation.

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