Last year’s extreme drought and contractions in the mining sector have combined to strip Vietnam of its stellar economic growth for 2016, while what effect the death two weeks ago of King Bhumibol Adulyadej will […]
Indonesia forest fires last year released 11.3 million tonnes of carbon per day, exceeding the daily rate of 8.9 million tonnes of carbon emissions from the whole of the European Union, a study says. The […]
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region is known as a famously productive agricultural area thanks to the rich nutrients carried downstream by the Mekong River. The delta produces enormous crops of rice and fruit every year, feeding […]
Slightly more than 30 years have now passed since Corazon Aquino, a steely housewife-turned-political-icon sporting yellow dress and matching spectacles, assumed the presidency of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted […]
The Philippines will see a mild pullback in 2015 GDP growth before the economy bounces back in 2016 on a pickup in government spending and a likely bounce back in exports, says a new Asian […]