Tag: ASEAN Community
Reclaiming Asean for its people
2015 is the year where the Asean Community is to be realised. The community is based on three pillars: political and security, economic and socio-cultural. Asean is saying that all three pillars have achieved more than 80% of the implementation.
Saifuddin Abdullah | Published: 19 February 2015
2015 is the year...
Citing Umno link, Pakatan says Shafee shouldn’t chair ASEAN human rights committee
Opposition party members have asked that Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah step down as chairman of an ASEAN intergovernmental committee, due to his close relations to Umno.
BY MAYURI MEI LIN
Published: February 16, 2015 01:49 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 — Opposition party members have asked that Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee...
Checking in on ASEAN and the AEC
Apressing policy question facing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders at their summit in April 2015 and beyond is whether the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) can be sustained without more effective institutions. This article explores the link between achieving the AEC agenda and institutional effectiveness. To remedy the...
Opinion: The ASEAN Way and Human Rights
ASEAN’s evolving human rights regime is shaped by three competing discourses. These are the human rights policies of national governments, advocacy positions promoted by both global and local civil society and the call for alignment with international human rights standards and procedures by inter-governmental organizations
Government views water down rights...
Malaysia Wants an ASEAN Peacekeeping Force
According to the Malaysian newspaper The Star, in an address to the defense ministry before beginning his visits to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, Hishammuddin said that he is in the process of visiting every one of the nine other ASEAN countries and that one of the things he...
Southeast Asia set to become a new EU
ASEAN's single market poised to hit the scene this year, but will regional politics thwart economic prosperity?
Tom Benner | 19 Feb 2015 09:21 GMT | Business & Economy, Asia, Asia Pacific, Vietnam, Singapore
Singapore - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is on course to declare its 10-member nations...
Asean must be prudent on Islamic State
With a few hundred fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines active in the Islamic States (IS) in Syria and Iraq, Asean must take concrete action now to tackle the issue of their activities head-on and in comprehensive ways.
Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation February 23, 2015 12:09 am
Since the last...
Cambodia Offers to Assist Asean Peace Force Plan
Defense Minister Tea Banh on Monday agreed to support Malaysia’s proposal to establish a regional peacekeeping force by providing Cambodian deminers if the plan moves forward, according to Malaysian media.
By Chris Mueller | February 25, 2015
Defense Minister Tea Banh on Monday agreed to support Malaysia’s proposal to establish a...
Asean integration remains an illusion
Barry Desker Published on Mar 4, 2015 7:58 AM
For the Asean member states, the benchmark of successful regionalism has been Asean's effectiveness in bringing the region closer.
Asean has provided a forum for closer consultations while promoting the habit of cooperation.
The lack of intra-state conflict in a region derided as...
ASEAN chief justices sign accord for judicial cooperation
The country representatives agree to focus on 'training needs and capacities' of ASEAN judiciaries and to 'continue to monitor developments of the regional roundtable on environmental law'
Buena Bernal
Published 9:36 PM, Mar 07, 2015
Updated 11:25 PM, Mar 09, 2015
MANILA, Philippines – Judiciary leaders in member-states of the Association for Southeast...
