Tag: ASEAN Community
Indonesia’s Foreign Domestic Workers: Dilemma Of Not Working Overseas – Analysis
While the United Nations takes stock of how far women have come in getting women’s rights acknowledged as human rights, Indonesia wants to stop sending women out of the country as foreign domestic workers (FDWs).This will throw a wrench in their financial empowerment.
April 11, 2015
By RSIS
While the United...
Non-compliance with social practices causes $500 million loss in exports
Foreign buyers’ representatives are urging local exporters and manufacturers to brace themselves for social compliance audit, noting the Philippines can lose as much as $500 million in potential export revenues yearly due to their non-compliance.
April 13, 2015
Foreign buyers’ representatives are urging local exporters and manufacturers to brace themselves for...
ASEAN urged to be more coherent
ASEAN must deliver on its promise of becoming a truly "people-centred" community and maintain its coherence in the face of global power shifts that can cause turbulence, former Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said yesterday.
Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh | The Straits Times | Sunday, Apr 12, 2015
ASEAN must deliver...
Intellectual Property rights in ASEAN making progress: AWGIPC
At the 46th ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation, the working group completed its stock take on its progress from 2011 to 2015.
POSTED: 10 Apr 2015 22:39
SINGAPORE: More than 80 per cent of the the 108 initiatives under the ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights action plan 2011 to 2015...
Timor Leste is ready to join Asean grouping
Timor Leste is ready to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) anytime, says Ambassador to Malaysia, Jose Antonio Amorim Dias.
Published on: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Kuala Lumpur: Timor Leste is ready to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) anytime, says Ambassador to Malaysia, Jose Antonio Amorim...
ASEAN leaders push for greater regional labour mobility
An integrated community will accelerate the pace of structural change, and is expected to generate some 14 million additional jobs by 2025.
By Saifulbahri Ismail
POSTED: 12 Apr 2015 20:51
UPDATED: 13 Apr 2015 12:52
KUALA LUMPUR: More engineers and architects in Southeast Asia have registered with professional bodies in the region to...
What China’s rise means for South-east Asia and overseas Chinese
I believe that in South-east Asia, the sea is likely to follow the land, and while the US is not declining and will not disappear, a more symmetrical naval equation must eventually develop in the South China Sea.
By Bilahari Kausikan
Published: 11:33 AM, April 9, 2015
Updated: 11:34 AM, April 9,...
An opening in Laos the US cannot miss
A remarkable yet little-noticed development in the US rebalance to the Asia Pacific has been Washington’s overtures to Laos, a country long isolated and often overlooked by US officials.
Published: 11/04/2015 at 06:16 AM
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A remarkable yet little-noticed development in the US rebalance to the Asia Pacific has been Washington’s...
ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY: What’s in it for you and me?
IN 2007, the heads of states of the 10 countries comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to establish the ASEAN Economic Community by Dec. 31 this year. Essentially, the ASEAN Economic Community is the integration of the 10 economies into a single unit. With its wide-ranging...
Planting the seed of Asean identity
The reason why it is so important to reach out to the young is self-evident, for they will be the next generation who will inherit the region in whatever state it is left to them, and it is they who will have to struggle, survive and succeed in a...
