Tag: ASEAN Community
How will the AEC affect ASEAN urbanisation?
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) takes steps toward implementing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015, they should be cognisant that the paths towards economic integration and sustainable urbanisation are closely intertwined. Southeast Asian cities will play a critical role in the unfolding...
ASEAN’s New Community – Only a Small Step
Will the new ASEAN Community be able to change perceptions of the regional bloc?
By Joshua Kurlantzick
December 04, 2015
At an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit last week, Southeast Asian leaders signed an agreement creating an “ASEAN Community.” The Diplomat reports that the “Community,” much discussed by Southeast Asian...
Southeast Asia set to flex economic muscle in 2016
The most upwardly mobile ASEAN countries can look forward to growth rates in the 6.5% to 8% range
Nov. 30, 2015, 1:22 p.m.
Asia Pacific
By Jonathan Manthorpe
Politics, economics and even the weather will pose major challenges for the 10 countries of Southeast Asia in 2016.
On the whole, though, the prospects for...
ASEAN Sets Up New Hotline Amid South China Sea Tensions
Move said to help prevent unintended incidents in the high seas.
By Prashanth Parameswaran
November 04, 2015
Southeast Asian defense ministers agreed Tuesday to establish a hotline enabling them to communicate quickly and securely in a crisis situation on the sidelines of a regional retreat in Malaysia.
Malaysian defense minister Hishammuddin Hussein told...
Laos to lead ASEAN in 2016
Lao PDR has launched a logo, campaign theme and website to support its ASEAN chairmanship in 2016.
November 11, 2015 by Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
Filed under ASEAN, Laos PDR, News
VIENTIANE, 11 November 2015: Lao PDR has launched a logo, campaign theme and website to support its ASEAN chairmanship in 2016.
The campaign features...
Indonesia against notion to form ASEAN union
“A union is not for ASEAN. It’s impossible for us. With a union, we will integrate as one state and we can’t make our own economic policy for our own interest,” Donna told thejakartapost.com.
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, thejakartapost.com, Jakarta | National | Wed, November 18 2015, 11:43 PM
Indonesia is persisting...
Environmental Protection in the Post-2015 ASEAN Economic Community
Although ASEAN’s efforts to balance economic growth and environmental sustainability are growing, they are often overshadowed by the group’s economic integration agenda.
29. Oct. 2015 by Dr. Alexander C. Chandra. Fina Astriana
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will soon launch its most ambitious economic integration project – the ASEAN...
Indonesia is in Relationship, with Its Neighbors
It is a big country in a multi-relationship. Literally, Indonesia’s geographical length is approximately twice the distance between London to Moscow. Thus it shares border with many countries. Here is Indonesia’s current relationships and potentials with the neighbors
Posted On 03 Nov 2015
By : Jennifer Sidharta
Current Relationships
Let’s start the review...
Asean is a ‘cow, not a horse’
IT’S not often you hear someone call Asean a cow – much less from the lips of one of the region’s most respected diplomats. Yesterday, in an opening speech for the Youth Model Asean Conference (YMAC), that’s exactly what Mr Bilahari Kausikan, an Ambassador-at-Large and policy advisor for the...
Promoting rights of people with disabilities in ASEAN
ASEAN needs to be consistent as a human rights friendly community, given its vision to be “a concert of Southeast Asian nations, bonded together in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring societies.”
Hafid Abbas, Jakarta | Opinion | Thu, December 10 2015, 4:33 PM
It is a...
