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China’s imports of durians soared last year, but its main supplier, Thailand, has been losing market share as the world’s chief buyer of the pungent tropical fruit lets in exports from Vietnam and the Philippines.
One of three front-runners to become Indonesia’s vice-president attacked Joko Widodo’s policy of forcing foreign companies to invest in mineral processing through export bans, stepping up criticism of the outgoing head of state’s economic record.
Global annual renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50 per cent last year – the fastest growth in two decades – yet clean energy accounts for less than 10 per cent of energy production in most Southeast Asian nations.
But the majority lose – for some, all their ringgit – at the rows of slot machines where the hours pass fast and cash is quickly guzzled by the brightly lit consoles.
“In Pakistan’s case certainly, Iran has miscalculated by assuming it would not retaliate” out of fear of being dragged into the wider Middle East conflict emanating from the Israel-Gaza war, said Abdul Basit, a senior associate fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
But, unlike other foreign developers before them, their time has closed with a slow fizzle rather than a stampede exit.
On December 30, one day before Indonesia’s Asean chairmanship lapsed, the region’s foreign ministers issued a statement articulating their “concern” over “recent developments in the South China Sea that may undermine peace, security, and stability in the region”.
The Japanese government is considering scrapping the current technical internship programme for foreigners, which began in 1993 to transfer knowledge and skills to developing countries. It plans to create a new programme taking into account the problems and rights violations observed under the current system, including issues such as unpaid wages and harassment.