Tag: ASEAN Community
What Vietnam Must Now Do
Vietnam must sign on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the United States-backed comprehensive trade plan. The agreement would allow Vietnam’s economy to become fully integrated with the rest of the industrialized world, and with that would come the prospect of further democratization at home.
By TUONG LAI | APRIL 6, 2015
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Southeast Asia: the next battleground?
As Canada ramps its relations with Southeast Asian nations with International Trade Minister Ed Fast concluding his thirteenth trade visit to the region in just four years, a former diplomat to Ottawa is warning the world to keep an eye on Saudi cash posing serious risks for peace and...
Civic Activists: ASEAN Ignoring Peoples’ Concerns
Civic organizations in Southeast Asia are expressing increasing concern their voices are being ignored by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), even though the current chair, Malaysia, has vowed to realize a “people-centered ASEAN.”
Steve Herman | April 02, 2015 2:28 AM
BANGKOK— Civic organizations in Southeast Asia are expressing...
PH govt exhausting all means to save Filipina from Indonesian death row
By: Philippines News Agency | InterAksyon.com
March 29, 2015 12:49 AM
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MANILA, Philippines - (UPDATED 3:14 A.M.) The government is doing everything it can to save a Filipina who has been sentenced to die in Indonesia after she was caught transporting illegal narcotics into the country,...
Why Indonesia should take a leading role in ASEAN
ASEAN would benefit from stronger leadership. But Indonesia, the country best placed to take up that role, appears unwilling.
28 March 2015 | Author: Pattharapong Rattanasevee, Burapha University
ASEAN would benefit from stronger leadership. But Indonesia, the country best placed to take up that role, appears unwilling.
Indonesia could be the leader...
Locals fearful as Myanmar’s Dawei project nears green light
Ma Nu May and her husband started a small cashew farm near the coastal town of Dawei in southern Myanmar seven years ago, but life in the past two years has been far from peaceful.
New port zone could revitalise trade in Asean, but at a high cost
Published: 27/03/2015 at...
Asean community – people and politics matter most
So Asean community-building will come to nought if people’s concerns, whether in vulnerable economic enterprises and sectors or in exercise of legitimate political rights, are not genuinely addressed. A “people-centred” Asean cannot be just another piece of rhetoric.
Published: Saturday March 28, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Saturday March 28, 2015...
Getting ready for one Asean – and moving forward
There are, of course, many other aspects that Asean members must mind to speed up towards an integrated economy. If Asean aims to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and sociocultural evolution among its members, it must seriously give attention to the protection of regional peace and stability, as well...
Asean literary festival promotes militant moderates against extremism
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Literary Festival closed on Sunday evening with participants agreeing that literature can help build understanding and moderation while lessening radicalism and extremism, which has become a growing threat not only in the region but also across the world.
The Jakarta Globe | Indonesia |...
‘Three of my favourite relatives are gay,” Shafee claims
Shafee defends unsavoury comments about Anwar and role in cross-dressing case at ASEAN forum
FMT Reporters | March 24, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah yesterday sought to justify his role as lead counsel for the Negeri Sembilan State Government in a case involving Muslim transgenders and various unsavoury public...
