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By Paul Dibb, ANU (Courtesy East Asia Forum) — Since ASEAN’s creation in 1967, it has contributed enormously to regional stability and prosperity. It consists of 10 countries whose populations total over 600 million people. And its economy ranks collectively as the third largest economy in Asia and the seventh largest in the world. In 1994, ASEAN also created another regional organisation — the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) — that now consists of 27 countries. […]
A research showed that the manufacturing industry across Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, would suffer productivity losses in the next 30 years due to rising temperatures caused by climate change. A recent report released by British firm Verisk Maplecroft said that Southeast Asia could lose an average of 16 percent of its current labor capacity due to the rising heat stress in the next three decades. Singapore and Malaysia are predicted to experience productivity loses […]
MAY 16 (Reuters) — Indonesian authorities were busy on Saturday (May 16) morning, providing food to the hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who were brought to shore by local fishermen during the previous day from their boat which was drifting off the coast. The nearly 800 migrants who arrived on Friday (May 15) are being sheltered in a warehouse in Langsa, off the coast of Sumatra island. Another 100 who were rescued on Friday […]
