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In Bali, opting for beans made from the poop of civets is the most expensive way to take your coffee. Every year, tourists travel to the Indonesian island and drink civet coffee – locally known as kopi luwak – at the more than a dozen cafes and farms listed on Google Maps.
Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery."
On Thursday, Plantation and Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani mooted the idea in parliament when asked about the use of mechanisation and technology in the plantation sector to mitigate its reliance on foreign labour.
TOKYO -- Japan's foreign workforce has seen its landscape change because of shifts in wages and exchange rates, with Vietnamese workers overtaking Chinese workers as the largest group last year while workers from Indonesia nearly tripled from 2018.
Asean is also a rising source of greenhouse gas emissions, with a growing population, an energy mix dominated by fossil fuels, new coal plants planned or under way, and deforestation. With a collective gross domestic product that doubled from 2009 to 2019, the need to decouple economic growth from emissions growth in Asean is clear.
Now Israeli dates, a sweet fruit eaten to break fast during Ramadan, are in the cross hairs of a consumer campaign which is flying across Malaysian and Indonesian chat groups over fears Israeli dates are being sold to unwitting buyers in the Muslim nations.
BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday praised the progress made by the 14 countries in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity after the group held a ministerial meeting Thursday to discuss proposed guidelines for regional commerce.