Fisheries
Indonesian ‘sea-to-table’ startup seeks to disrupt the fishing industry, gets funding
Aruna provides and online wholesale platform for small fisheries
Indonesian fishery and marine online platform Aruna on July...
One million jobs at risk in Myanmar’s hard-hit seafood industry
The near-collapse of Myanmar’s aquaculture and fisheries exports as a result of countries shutting borders amid the...
Jobless rate in Brunei jumped to 9.3%
Brunei’s unemployment rate rose to 9.3 per cent in 2017 from 6.9 per cent in 2014, latest available data from the Department of Statistics...
Philippine GDP growth drops to three-year-low
Economic growth in the Philippines slowed to six per cent during the second quarter of the year, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on August...
Vietnam posts strong GDP growth, boosts investment abroad
Vietnam's economy continues to show strength with an impressive 7.08 per cent growth in the first half of 2018, the highest rate since 2011....
Thailand keen to register illegal migrant workers on time
The Thai government is eager to have around two million illegal migrant workers, most of them from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, registered by...
Yellow Sea turns green from algae disaster
The largest algae bloom in China's history has turned the Yellow Sea coast off the eastern city of Qingdao into a green swamp. The...
Philippines tuna industry makes waves
Happy days are here again for the tuna industry in the Philippines. Last year, a ban on yellowfin tuna fishing was lifted in a...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...