Singapore has asked Cordlife, one of Asia's largest stem cell bank providers, to tighten supervision of its processes after improper handling ruined thousands of samples, an official has said.

Thai authorities have warned that widespread heavy rain will continue to occur in the coming days after five people were killed in floods in the northern region of the country earlier this week.

About 4 tonnes of waste is discharged every day on average in Ha Long Bay, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Four people have been killed, two others injured and more than 72,000 households affected by flooding in 30 provinces of Thailand since September 28, according to the country’s Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

A delegation led by US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry paid a working visit to Ben Tre on climate change situation in the Mekong Delta province on September 3.

Indonesian Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia has said that Indonesians must prepare against a potential hike in fuel prices as the government looks to control its ballooning energy subsidies amid high global oil prices.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said on July 26 that a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Thailand’s central bank on June 23 decided to keep key rate unchanged at record low 0.5 percent and cut 2021 economic growth forecast following the complicated development of COVID-19 in the country.

Nearly 90% of Vietnamese enterprises have been negatively impacted by COVID-19.

The completion of Metro Line No1 project in Ho Chi Minh City linking Ben Thanh Market in District 1 with Suoi Tien Tourist Park in District 9 is likely to be delayed to after 2021, the municipal Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) has stated.

The central bank of Thailand (BoT) said on December 17 it did not see a big impact on foreign trade and investment from being put on a US currency watch list.

Production and revenue of Japanese enterprises in Vietnam are expected to fall at 70 percent in the second quarter of 2020, the results of the latest survey showed.

Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that it will adopt seven measures to soften the impact of the US suspension of trade benefits for the Southeast Asian country.

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and it plays an important role in development of APEC economies. However, tourism activities have been seriously affected by climate change

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai is exerting every effort to minimise the impacts of climate change.

A conference on the impacts of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on the enterprises and economy of the Mekong Delta was held in Can Tho on March 30