Tag: ASEAN Community
Transparency International calls on Southeast Asian governments to set up ASEAN Integrity Community
Transparency International today called on Southeast Asian governments to establish an ASEAN Integrity Community to protect against serious corruption risks.
Posted 18 December 2014 by Transparency International Secretariat
Transparency International today called on Southeast Asian governments to establish an ASEAN Integrity Community to protect against serious corruption risks.
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Is Indonesia Turning Away From ASEAN Under Jokowi?
Barely two months after Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo took office in a historic election, he has already stirred fears among some at home and abroad that his country, a traditional leader in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), may be looking beyond the organization in its foreign policy...
ASEAN labouring under outdated migration policies
By the end of 2015, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is expected to establish a single market and production base in the region. With an ASEAN overall workforce of more than 300 million people, the AEC will have strong implications in terms of labour migration and human resource development
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Southeast Asia: 10 Trends to Watch in 2015
It’s time for my annual list of 10 trends to watch in Southeast Asia during the new calendar year, something I have previously done for The Diplomat in 2013 and 2014. Here they are, in no particular order
From Myanmar’s election to ASEAN community-building, 2015 will be an exciting year
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How we can triumph in Asean integration
Our law students cannot even visualize what Southeast Asia’s integration demands. I posited this last week after judging a national essay contest where 30 percent of the writers could only propose to expand study of United-Nations-related law, and 94 percent could not vividly illustrate a cross-border legal problem.
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Measuring ASEAN State Capacity
An embarrassing fact about ASEAN governments avoided in public policy discussions is that the capacity of most ASEAN states is quite limited — much more limited than they, and the international community, generally wish to admit. Until there is recognition of limited state capacity, it will be hard to...
A Surge in Southeast Asian Transnational Crime?
As ASEAN prepares to forge a more cohesive community by the end of 2015, Thai officials are warning that an integrated region could also exacerbate the problem of transnational organized crime and undermine efforts to tackle it
Officials worry a borderless ASEAN could complicate their efforts to tackle transnational crime.
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ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat to Kick Start Malaysia’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015
Malaysia will kick-start its chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015 by hosting the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from January 27 to 28.
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Malaysia will kick-start its chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015 by hosting...
Malaysia sets two main agendas as it assumes Asean chairmanship
The realisation of the Asean Community 2015 and the development of an Asean Community's Post-2015 Vision will be the two priorities for Malaysia as it assumes the chairmanship of Asean beginning today.
Posted on 1 January 2015 - 05:47pm
Last updated on 1 January 2015 - 07:19pm
PUTRAJAYA: The realisation of the...
Laos to chair Asean next year
Laos will assume the chairmanship of Asean in 2016 and in that capacity will host all Asean and East Asian Summits that year along with other high level meetings, which will bring hundreds of international delegations to Laos.
Vientiane Times/ANN January 7, 2015 6:31 pm
Laos will assume the chairmanship of...
