ASEAN

The India Asean FTA was signed in Bangkok on Aug 13, 2009, came into effect from Jan 1, 2010 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in association with industry body Ficci, has released a white paper on India-Asean Free Trade Agreement. Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) is a grouping of 10 countries including Singapore and Indonesia.…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has pledged to contribute 12,000 metric tons (mt) of rice to the ASEAN + 3 rice reserve scheme, National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Angelito Banayo said.

Standing along the Mekong riverbank in Vientiane, Laotians can clearly see Thailand’s blistering prosperity compared to their own, with high-rise apartment buildings coupled with concrete housing standing along the river on the other side.

President Benigno Aquino III has named three business tycoons as members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation—Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC). The appointments of Teresita Sy-Coson of the SM Investment Corporation, Manuel Pangilinan, chairman of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Company, and Jay Yuvallos of the furniture manufacturing and exportation business in Cebu was…

NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Bernama) — Malaysia continues to occupy the third leading position, after India and China, in the list of the world’s leading offshoring destinations, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney’s latest Global Services Location Index (GSLI).

THE PHILIPPINES will have to contend with growing competition posed by other Asian investment sites given the trend of more liberal policies in the region.

Southeast Asia’s mainland states are seen drifting away from ASEAN and into the warm embrace of China. RFA The route taken by ASEAN foreign ministers on their one-day road trip from Thailand to China. Twenty years after China and Southeast Asian nations forged official links, fears are growing that Beijing’s rising military and economic clout…

KUNMING / BEIJING -Foreign ministers from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday agreed to further promote strategic cooperation, which analysts believe sets a positive tone for China-ASEAN relations this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines and its Southeast Asian peers are expected to post an average growth rate of 5.5% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Asean experts are fine-tuning their action plans and tapping financial support from overseas in an effort to reduce poverty and tackle HIV/Aids as part of the United Nations’ millennium development goals, a workshop has heard.

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IMPROVING QUALITY of jobs will be a key challenge for the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia and the Pacific this year, the latest report of the International Labour Organization (ILO) said.

The ASEAN CSR Network held an inaugural ceremony on 11 January 2011 in Singapore to celebrate its incorporation led by its founding members, namely, the ASEAN Foundation, Indonesia Business Links, International Chamber of Commerce-Malaysia, the League of Corporate Foundations (Philippines), CSR Club of Thai Listed Companies Association and Singapore Compact for CSR, which also hosts…

HONG KONG—In some of 2010’s most compelling images, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from her home after years in detention and an empty chair marked the absence of Liu Xiaobo from his Nobel prize ceremony.

SEAN foreign ministers (L-R) Myanmar’s U Nyan Win, Phillipine’s Undersecretary of Policy Erlinda F. Basilio, Singapore’s George Yeo, Thailand’s Kasit Piromnya, Vietnam’s Assistant Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh, Indonesia’s Marty Natalegawa, Cambodia’s Hor Namhong, Brunei Darussalam’s Mohamed Bolkiah, Laos’ Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia’s Dato’ Sri Anifah Aman and ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan pose during a group…

Indonesian foreign ministry foto of Asean foreign ministers, Lombok, Indonesia 16 Jan 2011 Asean foreign ministers gathered for an informal retreat on Lombok, Indonesia Asean foreign ministers have said that sanctions against military-ruled Burma should be dropped.

VNEconomyNews.com – Economic ties between China and the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) boomed as a result of the free trade zone agreement put into effect in January 2010. That, experts say, will not only boost the regional economic integration in Asia but also benefit the world economy as a whole.

MANILA, Philippines – The Federation of ASEAN Shipowners’ Associations (FASA) remains cautiously optimistic on the shipping industry despite its recovery in 2010.

JAKARTA (Xinhua) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made great contribution not only to the regional order, but also international cooperation, an Indonesian envoy said on Thursday.

JAKARTA, Jan 6 (Bernama) — Indonesia Thursday said it was promoting a people-centred Asean during its chairmanship of the regional association this year.

The Federation of ASEAN Shipowners’ Associations (FASA) has expressed opposition to the unilateral decision by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) to establish an ITF model wage scale, a benchmark on minimum wage for non – domiciled seafarers employed on national flag vessels.

Asean members this year will attempt to build on free trade gains, but investment liberalisation will be a challenge Another challenging year has begun for Asean nations looking to affirm their cooperation and integrity in a concerted effort to speed up talks on further free trade pacts covering investment and services after the six original…

Another commerce ministry official said, also on condition of anonymity, that a long pending proposal for a Ceca with Indonesia may be reopened during the visit of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in January.

Real value of wages in the Philippines and Malaysia posted the biggest drop at four percent for the region in 2008 as the worldwide financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, a new report by the International Labor Office (ILO) said.

SHANGHAI (AP) – The prolonged weakness in the US and Europe may be the least of Asia’s troubles in 2011, economists say, as the region fights potentially destabilizing inflationary pressures.

PARIS (Xinhua) – Except for the Philippines, major southeastern Asian countries are to register slowing down economic recovery pace in the fourth quarter of this year mainly due to weak trade, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday.

MANILA—The Philippines and its Asean partners have agreed to work together in the implementation of industrial relations practices as embodied in the Asean Industrial Relation Guidelines adopted during the 21st Asean Labor Ministers Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam last May 2010.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 1.54 million people in the ASEAN region have been infected with the HIV virus as of end 2009 from 1.58 million in 2007.

The Philippines and its ASEAN partners have agreed to work together in the implementation of industrial relations practices as embodied in the ASEAN Industrial Relation Guidelines adopted during the 21st ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam last May 2010.

BANGKOK — Intra-regional trade among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states should increase from 25 percent at present to 40 percent of its total trading value in order to ensure sustainable growth, ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said Tuesday.