In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Delhi Risking Country’s Energy Security & Growth, Warns Chinese Paper Beijing:Within days of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosting Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang, Chinese leaders are leaning on Vietnam to cancel the country’s oil exploration deal with India in the South China Sea. Xinhua, China’s official news agency, on Sunday …
New Delhi Despite Chinese objections to India's deals with Vietnam for oil exploration in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims in full, India and Vietnam on Wednesday sealed an oil exploration accord in the Vietnamese waters of the sea. At the end of talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh …
In an effort to boost strategic and economic ties, India and Vietnam on Wednesday signed an agreement on oil exploration along with an extradition treaty. The two countries also decided to launch a security dialogue between the Home ministries. After talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the visiting Vietnamese …
Vietnam says nine more deaths have brought the toll from the Mekong Delta's worst flooding in more than a decade to 43 people, mostly children. The government said Thursday that the seasonal floods have submerged nearly 70,000 homes. The waters have damaged an estimated $55 million in crops and infrastructure …
Notwithstanding China’s objections, India is expected to further intensify its cooperation with Vietnam in the hydrocarbon sector. The issue is likely to figure prominently during talks between Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday. Indian officials said the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) …
Unfazed by Chinese objections, India and Vietnam today inked an agreement to promote oil exploration in South China Sea along with a slew of pacts, including an extradition treaty, to deepen trade, security and strategic ties between the two countries. In all, six agreements were signed after the Vietnamese President …
The level of hunger worldwide has dropped in recent years but 26 countries still face extremely dangerous food shortages and are threatened by rising prices, a major report said Tuesday. The Global Hunger Index, released by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), measures food insecurity. Its level has …
World rice production is expected to touch a record 480.5 million tonnes this year on the back of higher output in Asia, Egypt, Argentina, Mozambique, the US and Russian Federation, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. “The outlook for global rice production in 2011 …
Massive floods have left 500 people dead across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, officials said Monday, as authorities stepped up efforts to reach victims of the unusually heavy monsoon rains. In Thailand, where the death toll from the country’s worst floods in decades rose to 269, thousands of soldiers fanned out …
Even as Japan plans to phase out nuclear power as too risky for domestic use, the government is supporting a new push by Japanese industry to sell nuclear power technology to other countries. Japanese industrial conglomerates, with the cooperation of the government in Tokyo, are renewing their pursuit of multibillion-dollar …
The toll from the worst floods to hit Vietnam's Mekong Delta in a decade has reached 24, most of them children, the government disaster authority said on Monday, as it reported a further six deaths. The Hanoi-based national flood and storm control committee said that 21 of those killed have …
Unfazed by Chinese threats, Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang today said India and other foreign nations were welcome to explore hydrocarbons in areas within his country's jurisdiction, as he sought to deepen strategic and defence ties with New Delhi. Ahead of his maiden state visit to India from Tuesday, President …
Flooding forced the evacuation of hundreds of inmates from a prison in central Thailand on Thursday and a prominent think tank slashed its forecast for economic growth this year as farmland was inundated and a big industrial estate had to close. At least 244 people have been killed in floods …
Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to the burden of farmers who are among the region’s poorest, experts say. About 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of paddy fields in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have been …
Thailand aims to revive a long-stalled plan to become an oil trading and biofuel hub in Southeast Asia, challenging Singapore's dominance, its new energy minister said on Thursday. The net oil importer plans to boost its crude reserves, excluding refined oil products, to 29 days from 18 days now to …
The government says the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has killed 11 people, including five children, over the past week in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta. The government said Monday that the highest water levels since 2000 have inundated more than 20,000 homes in five affected provinces and …
At least 150 people have died in Cambodia and southern Vietnam in the worst flooding along the Mekong River in 11 years, after heavy rain swamped homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate. Most of the deaths have been in Cambodia, where 141 people have died since Aug. 13.
Thousands of people in Vietnam sheltered from a powerful tropical storm that lashed its northern coast yesterday after slamming into southeast China and killing 43 people in the Philippines. Schools shut and flights were cancelled ahead of the storm, which weakened from a typhoon after devastating the Philippines' main island …
A powerful typhoon that forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes on an island in southern China appeared to have caused little damage Friday and was sweeping away from the country toward Vietnam. Typhoon Nesat was expected to make landfall in Vietnam late Friday or early Saturday, after …
In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based utility consortium signed a deal with Vietnam on Wednesday to conduct a feasibility study for two new reactors. The agreement comes as a lifeline to Japan's nuclear industry, which harbors …
