Tag: ASEAN Community
Asean can learn from Europe’s refugee crisis — Dimas Kuncoro
With numbers almost as staggering as in Europe, the challenge in Southeast Asia is urgent and requires collective action.
Saturday September 26, 2015
12:01 PM GMT+8
SEPTEMBER 26 — With numbers almost as staggering as in Europe, the challenge in Southeast Asia is urgent and requires collective action.
While waiting for a ‘magical’...
Stopping ASEAN’s brain drain
After 10 years of negotiation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) much anticipated ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) comes into effect at the end of this year.
Tue, 29 September 2015
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After 10 years of negotiation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) much anticipated ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) comes...
Haze shrouds ASEAN forum on transnational crime
Even though the meeting had nothing to do with the haze, ASEAN ministers concurred it is a regional problem that could sour relations among member countries.
By Melissa Goh, Malaysia Bureau Chief, Channel NewsAsia
POSTED: 29 Sep 2015 21:48 UPDATED: 29 Sep 2015 23:05
KUALA LUMPUR: For weeks, choking haze from neighbouring...
ASEAN police urged to strengthen ties
The government has urged Southeast Asian police forces to forge closer links in the fight against transnational crime with the advent of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the end of this year.
Fedina S. Sundaryani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | World | Wed, August 05 2015, 7:33 AM
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Federica Mogherini to travel to Malaysia to step up EU engagement with ASEAN
Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, will travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 5-6 August as part of the EU's drive to step up its engagement with ASEAN.
04/08/2015
Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission,...
ASEAN Impact: Ideas, Identities and Integration
The Rebalance authors Mercy Kuo and Angie Tang regularly engage subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. rebalance to Asia. This conversation with Alice Ba, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, and author of...
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Are Free Trade Agreements Like TPP Really A Tool For Fixing Labor Rights Abuses?
As President Barack Obama pushes to make the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact a capstone of his global trade legacy, he is promoting the deal at home as a way to counter China's commercial influence in the Asia-Pacific region while also holding trade partners to tighter human rights...
Asean needs to take the middle road
WHATEVER the world says, Asean, like water, will find its own comfort level and move on. In such a manner, the regional organisation can achieve much more shorn of acrimonious debates, incessant harassments and constant internal discords.
By Dr Azhari Karim - 7 August 2015 @ 12:00 PM
WHATEVER the world...
Asean on track to usher in Asean Community, says Minh
Asean is on track to usher in the Asean Community at the end of this year, said the regional body’s secretary-general Le Luong Minh
Published: Wednesday August 5, 2015 MYT 9:05:00 PM
Updated: Wednesday August 5, 2015 MYT 9:19:45 PM
by razak ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR: Asean is on track to usher in the...
Eight challenges Asean must overcome
Exactly 48 years ago, the foreign ministers of the five Founding Members of Asean gathered here in Lamtaen, Bang Saen to chart a new course for this region.
Published: 8/08/2015 at 07:31 AM
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Exactly 48 years ago, the foreign ministers of the five Founding Members of Asean gathered here in...