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— José Rizal
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Investment tipped for recovery
Thailand's foreign direct investment (FDI) this year should experience solid improvement with the launch of the government's 10 industrial clusters and the integration of the Asean Economic Community.
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Thai business giants reconsider international expansion
Full-steam regional integration under the Asean Economic Community (AEC) is offering new opportunities for Southeast Asian companies to expand across borders. However, the global economic slowdown and a plunge in oil prices have given rise to new uncertainties and prompted some companies to reconsider the timing of new projects abroad.
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Hanoi - 2016 ricco di eventi per legame Italia-Vietnam
E' fitta di iniziative economiche e culturali l'agenda dell'ambasciata italiana in Vietnam che per il 2016 organizzerá un gran numero di eventi per consolidare le relazioni tra Italia e Vietnam. Il Paese asiatico è infatti diventato dal 2015 il piú importante partner commerciale italiano nell'Asean,...
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Less talk, more action
IN 2009 SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, in his second inaugural speech as president, boasted that Indonesia could “exercise its foreign policy freely in all directions, having a million friends and zero enemies.” Its foreign-policy goals, he said, were “advancing multilateralism through the United Nations and creating harmony among countries”. That may ...
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DRT to ride regional roofing demand
SET-listed Diamond Building Products Plc (DRT) aims to expand its business in the Asean market, expecting the proportion of sales from overseas to rise to 20% by 2018.
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FTAs may hurt Make in India drive, says auto parts industry
The government is in discussion with the European Union (EU) and Australia for FTAs. The country already has such trade pacts with Asean
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Obama, ASEAN discuss China Sea tensions
Obama says US remains strongly committed to regional order, upholding the law.
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Kasikornbank plans Asean branches to drive growth
Kasikornbank (KBank) plans to upgrade its three Asean representative offices to branches in a bid to strengthen its international operations amid deeper trade and investment integration.
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Obama, ASEAN leaders to talk China and trade
US President to press leaders to back common goals for South China Sea during White House summit.
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Paper firms fear more dumping from China and Indonesia
Firms attribute concerns to high countervailing duty in the US, India-Asean FTA
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Jetstar to fly to Manila; Cathay route turns 50; More flights to PNG
Jetstar to fly to Manila Jetstar Japan has announced the launch of new routes from Narita, Osaka and Nagoya to Manila, making Jetstar the nation’s first low-cost carrier to offer direct flights to the Philippine capital. The airline will begin offering seven direct flights a week to Manila from March ...
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Chinese keen on Thailand despite slowing economy
Chinese investment in Thailand and Asean is expected to continue despite the slow global economy, according to the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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Experts see expansion of Japanese firms in ASEAN states
The emergence of an integrated market with a population of 600 million — third largest in Asia following China and India — is expected to encourage Japanese companies to accelerate direct investment into the countries that make up the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Upon formation of the ...
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Increasing competitiveness, fostering human resources
Since its foundation in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made extraordinary progress. It has been transformed into an increasingly well-regulated, dynamic and the world’s fastest-developing economic region. Its member states grew from six to 10 and today include Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, ...
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Contributing to Southeast Asian development
ASEAN is currently attracting much attention as a major growth center in the global economy. With a market of more than 600 million people and an abundant young labor force, whose working-age population will peak in the second half of the 2040s, ASEAN has achieved remarkable economic growth with its ...
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Working to optimize relationships
Japan welcomes the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community, or AEC, as the prosperity of the Association of South East Asian Nations is expected to also benefit Japan, the world’s third-largest economy. “Japan and ASEAN should be in a win-win relationship,” said Secretary-General of the ASEAN-Japan Centre Masataka Fujita, who ...
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OIC interviene sulla Legge Bangsamoro
FILIPPINE Manila 24/01/2016. L'Oic (Organizzazione per la cooperazione Islamica) ha detto che l'approvazione della legge sul Bangsamoro (Bbl) è in armonia con la revisione dell'accordo di pace del 1996 con il Moro National Liberation Leggi tutto...
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AMRO to launch as Asian version of IMF this spring
An East and Southeast Asian equivalent to the International Monetary Fund is expected to be launched as early as this spring, tasked with keeping watch on risks in the region such as a collapsing currency. The Singapore-based ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office, or AMRO, an independent body formed in April 2011 ...
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JWD budgets B1.5bn for Asean plan
SET-listed JWD Infologistics Plc says it will continue its expansion in Asean, aiming to make foreign revenue 25% of the total by 2020, up from 8% now.
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Asean launches economic bloc but analysts sceptical
Southeast Asian nations officially launched an EU-inspired economic bloc today aimed at boosting the region's trading clout and attracting more investment, but analysts said a true single market was still a long way off.
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More hat than cattle
Opening up, ASEAN-style GRANDIOSE statements from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are the region’s Christmas crackers: they appear at regular intervals, create a commotion but contain little of substance. In November the leaders of the club’s ten members declared that the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)—a single market around which ...