(Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Studies in Asian Security)
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
South-east Asia's largest low-cost airline is considering a secondary listing in Thailand, which could lead to a merger of AirAsia with its Thai and Indonesian affiliates
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jot Asean (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
How did ASEAN countries rank on Transparency International's Corruption Index this year? The top ten least corrupt are the Nordic countries , plus New Zealand (#1), Canada, and Australia. (Netherlands isn't exactly Nordic, but it comes in at #6. Singapore (#3) is perceived as the least corrupt country in all of Asia. Brunei (#39) is perceived as being no more corrupt than South Korea. Malaysia (#56)...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Senior officials from ASEAN nations' national and private banks gathered here on Friday to attend the 39th ASEAN banking council meeting. The annual bankers' meeting focused on how to speed up the process of the integration of ASEAN financial services by 2015, and discussed on the cooperation in finance, investment, education and ASEAN inter-regional relations. "The close cooperation among ASEAN...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
Topic A Sunday, November 22, 2009 WashPost The Post asked foreign policy experts if Obama's trip was a success or an embarrassment. Below are contributions from Michael Auslin, Michael Green, Victor Cha, Danielle Pletka, Douglas E. Schoen, Richard C. Bush, Elizabeth C. Economy, David Shambaugh and Yang Jianli. MICHAEL AUSLIN Director of Japan studies, American Enterprise Institute The optics of the...
Cempaka Putih (Free subscription) | yesterday
New report provides detailed analysis of the Information Technology market Companiesandmarkets.com and OfficialWire , by Press Office, Published on November 20, 2009 The Indonesian IT market should grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 13% over 2009-2013 despite a deceleration in 2009, with demand in key segments affected by the global economic crisis. In H109, some manufacturing organisations...
Vox (Free subscription) | yesterday
Céline Carrère , Jaime de Melo , Bolormaa Tumurchudur Klok , 21 November 2009 Almost all economies are party to preferential trade schemes. But how much are they “giving away” or “receiving” in preferential access? This column presents a compact representation of effective market access and applies it to the proposed ASEAN-EU trade agreement. Full Article: How...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The site is normally crawling with tourists, but was shut down for the US leader's visit Photo: EPA Circling Sharks Smell American Blood -- Victor Davis Hanson On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea - like many nations these days - in no mood to hear more American lectures. Beijing is worried about owning so much American debt. Tokyo is tiring of an American...
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tata Motors has said it will begin exporting its Thai-made pickup truck to markets across the ASEAN trade block from next year, after import duties on local automotive products are cut to zero between the trade block's four main automotive markets in January.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
India would soon initiate the process to make the Asean Free Trade Agreement operational from January 1, 2010. The duty-free deal was signed in August 2009, in the midst of opposition from plantation sector farmers and political functionaries from southern states.
The Age (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Ten Southeast Asian nations pledged to create a regional immigration database to catch criminals and terrorists going across their borders, the group said.
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Barack Obama at the weekend became the first US president to share a room with all 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The US's new Asian focus is based partly on a belief that the region has been neglected, giving China a pre-eminent position, and that it's time to get down to business. - Brian McCartan (Nov 18, '09)
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
President Barack Obama, on his first visit to Asia as president, made an important speech in Tokyo on Saturday that can serve as a template for U.S. policy toward that region during his term. The speech was carefully deferential to Mr. Obama's Japanese hosts, although there was every reason to make his seminal Asia speech from there. The United States and Japan are still the world's two largest economies...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Myanmar official media stressed on Wednesday the need for cooperation among ASEAN members themselves and between the ASEAN nations and their three partners, believing that these cooperation will bring further development to agricultural and forest sectors of the region. The New Light of Myanmar made the emphasis in its editorial following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by leaders of the...
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