Tag: ASEAN Community
Asean integration: Will the environment fall apart?
Will the fulfilment of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) be a boon or bane to the region's natural environment?
Cielito F Habito
The Philippine Daily Inquirer
Asia News Network
Manila May 15, 2015 1:00 am
Will the fulfilment of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) be a boon or bane to the region's natural environment?
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PH open to sheltering 3,000 ‘boat people’
The Palace denies a newspaper report that says the Philippines 'will push back to sea' the 'boat people' from Myanmar and Bangladesh
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The Philippines on Monday, May 18, said it is open to sheltering up to 3,000 "boat people" from Myanmar and Bangladesh as other Southeast...
Opinion: AEC must address human trafficking, smuggling
The discovery of a mass grave of dozens of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh in Songkhla’s Sadao District, on the border with Malaysia, this week screams urgency for the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to use its extraordinary powers to turn the tide against human trafficking in...
AC limps to year-end deadline and beyond
The aftermath of the 26th Asean Summit in Kuala Lumpur last week indicates that the 10-member regional grouping is increasingly challenged in its efforts to cohere into an Asean Community (AC) by the end of this year.
Published: 08/05/2015 at 03:30 AM
Writer: Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Beset by domestic political tensions and pulled...
On Pointe – The great divide
The disconnect between leadership and society is perhaps the one thing that this diverse grouping shares. Even after calling attention to such important matters to heads of governments, the most highlighted agenda issue for the leaders' summit was discussing a common time zone and the launch of the commemorative...
Advancing human rights after the AAC and the ASEAN Summit
As a member of APHR, I strongly believe that regional engagement is necessary to address the human trafficking crisis created by the large number of refugees fleeing Myanmar — the highest outflow of asylum seekers by sea in the Southeast Asian region since the Vietnam War.
Irine Roba, Jakarta |...
Free labour flow within Asean a challenge to Vietnamese workers
The Asean Economic Community (AEC), scheduled to take shape in late 2015, is expected to facilitate the free flow of goods, services, investment, as well as skilled workers within the bloc.
Published: 5 May 2015 5:38 PM
This provides opportunities, but also challenges for Vietnamese labourers, who are often deemed to...
Today’s leaders of Asean need to consult more, not less
Truth be told, the current Asean leaders do not have the kind of mutual understanding and comfort level of their predecessors, who made Asean such a formidable organisation over its first three decades. Those early figures were connected and shared the same wavelength.
Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation May 4, 2015 1:00...
NGOs irate over gov’t ‘hijack’
Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum last week, alleging the Kingdom’s civil society representatives were disproportionately government-aligned.
Mon, 27 April 2015 | Sean Teehan
Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’...
Overt religious persecution in eight of 10 Asean states, study finds
lurring lines between religion and nationalism, weak rule of law and the politicisation of religion are primary factors fuelling religious persecution in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and across the region, concluded a study commissioned by the Human Rights Resource Centre for Asean. - See...
