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Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia

Tag: Fisheries

Posted inJapan

Fukushima radioactive water release not such a big deal

by Jim Smith January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Over ten years ago, a tsunami triggered a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan’s east coast. After the accident, large amounts of radioactivity contaminated the ocean leading to the imposition of a marine exclusion zone and huge reputational damage to the regional fishing industry. Huge volumes of contaminated water have accumulated […]

Posted inOpinion

Russia-China alliance could be shaken by fisheries

by Aditya Pareek August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
A fisherman on Inle Lake, one of Myanmar's top picturesque tourist attractions. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inOpinion

We neglect Asia’s freshwater fishes at our peril

by Christy Williams February 23, 2021February 23, 2021
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia

Indonesia vs China in a fish fight at sea

by John McBeth June 1, 2019February 18, 2020
Philippine activists hold a protest in front of the Chinese Consular Office in Makati, the financial district of Manila, condemning what they say is China's intrusions into the Scarborough Shoal, known to the Chinese as Huangyan, in a file photo: Photo: AFP/Noel Celis
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Philippines, World

Filipino fishermen ask: ‘Are we slaves of China?’

by Richard Javad Heydarian June 12, 2018February 18, 2020
Indonesian Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has overseen the demolition of foreign fishing boats caught poaching in Indonesian waters. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP Forum/(Donal Husni
Posted inAT Finance, China, India, Indonesia, Middle East, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Indonesia’s ‘Fish Lady’ fights to stay the course

by John McBeth March 8, 2018February 18, 2020
Taipei City Government in Taiwan. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inChina, Taiwan

Direct hire of migrant workers via internet from January 2018

by Asia Times staff December 29, 2017February 18, 2020
A handout picture taken on October 23, 2010 shows a part of the reservoir of the Nam Theun 2 hydropower station in the Lao central province of Khammouane.   Photo: AFP/Nam Theun Power Company
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, European Union, India, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Oceania, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

World Bank fallacy of kinder, gentler dams

by Tom Fawthrop November 4, 2017February 18, 2020
Migrant workers pass the Thai-Myanmar border in an official service truck as they left Thailand from Mae Sot, Tak province in northern Thailand. Photo: AFP/Ye Aung PHOTO / Ye Aung Thu
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, United Kingdom, World

Labor pains squeeze fast aging Thailand

by Peter Janssen November 1, 2017February 18, 2020
The demolition and sinking of a pirate fishing ship by the Indonesian Navy at the Pangandaran Sea, West Java. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP/ Donal Husni
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Explosive plan for Indonesian fisheries

by John McBeth September 26, 2017February 18, 2020
Water levels run low on the Mekong River. Photo: AFP Forum/Paritta Wangkiat
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Death by dam for the Mekong

by Tom Fawthrop September 14, 2017February 18, 2020
A Myanmar migrant worker sorts fish at a wholesale market for fish and other seafood in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, July 4, 2017.  Photo: Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, South Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Sinking feeling for Asean fisheries

by Alan Boyd August 3, 2017February 18, 2020
Suao Port, Yilan county, Taiwan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, China, Philippines, Taiwan

Filipino fisherman, Taiwanese captain dispute unresolved

by Asia Times staff July 28, 2017February 18, 2020
Fresh sea bass at Rialto Market in Venice. Photo:  Reuters/Stefano Rellandini
Posted inChina, European Union, India, South Asia, World

Stop blaming China for the state of the world’s fishing stocks

by Siddharth Chakravarty May 23, 2017February 18, 2020
Photo: iStock
Posted inIndia, South Asia

Techpark for ornamental fish breeding to open in Chennai

by Asia Times staff May 16, 2017February 18, 2020
Unsustainable fishing practices and ramped up construction activities in the South China Sea imperil one of the world's richest fishing environments. Photo: Reuters/Tim Wimborne
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Oceania, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

A sea in peril

by Dan Southerland March 25, 2017February 18, 2020

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