South East Asia has accounted for more than half of the world’s 54 piracy and armed robbery incidents since the start of 2015.

After a steady drop over the last few years, attacks rose 10% in the first quarter of 2015 over the same period of 2014.

Worldwide, pirates took 140 hostages in the first three months of 2015, three times as many as during the same period in 2014.

But