US President to press leaders to back common goals for South China Sea during White House summit.

Firms attribute concerns to high countervailing duty in the US, India-Asean FTA

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 ...

Chinese investment in Thailand and Asean is expected to continue despite the slow global economy, according to the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

MANILA - European insurance giant Allianz is buying a controlling stake in one of the largest insurance firms in the Philippines for an undisclosed amount, the Filipino outfit said on Wednesday.

FILIPPINE Mindanao 14/12/2015. L'Organizzazione per la cooperazione islamica (Oic) ha espresso grave preoccupazione per il processo di pace nelle Filippine meridionali a maggioranza musulmana, alla luce dei ritardi nell'approvazione della legge su Mindanao. Leggi tutto...

MANILA -- The Philippine economy expanded 6% in the third quarter and officials Thursday forecast at least the same growth rate for the full year but warned of risks from the El Nino dry spell and presidential elections in 2016.

Thailand's export market share in Asean is likely to decline once the Asean Economic Community takes shape, with Singapore and Malaysia busy revving up their manufacturing presence in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.

Thirteen years after the idea was mooted, Southeast Asian leaders on Sunday formally created a unified economic community in a region more populous and diverse than the European Union or North America, and with hopes of competing with China and India. The 10 leaders in the Association of Southeast Asian ...

Modi said that after a temporary decline, trade between India and the Asean countries increased to about $76.5 bn in FY15

The Asean Economic Community was scheduled to set up a free-trade bloc by the end of 2015 to rival the European Union or the United States. But legislative foot-dragging and obstructive border practices have effectively prevented the free movement of goods, services and workers, with no chance to meet the ...