The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is set to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Hong Kong following three years of negotiations, according to a Ministry of Commerce official who said the agreement could spur more investment and expand trade with the bloc’s second-largest trading partner after mainland China. Commerce Ministry spokeswoman […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have come out with a unified stance on the parameters for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) following the conclusion of the ASEAN Economic Ministers’ (AEM) Meetings in Manila yesterday, with the ball on how to move things forward now in the hands of […]
Read MoreHCM City – The digital economy is driving growth nowadays, and it is getting hard for business owners to do cross-border trading or access the global market if they do not embrace digital transformation, the 2017 APEC Online-to-Offline (O2O) Initiative Forum heard in HCM City on Sunday. Pei-Ti Hu, deputy director general, small and medium […]
Read MoreConcerned about India’s continuing trade deficit with Asean, parliamentarians are pressing the Delhi government to do more to lift exports and correct the imbalance. They complain that tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed by some Asean countries are affecting Indian exports of agricultural products and leather, as well as the country’s huge pharmaceutical sector. The lawmakers […]
Read MoreHONG KONG: Hong Kong and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations announced on Saturday that they had concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement and related investment pact. Asean and mainland China have had a free trade agreement in effect since 2010. “Asean is a very important trading partner of Hong Kong. It was […]
Read MoreSoutheast Asia hosts nearly 10 million migrants, of whom roughly 7 million originate from countries within the region. The main component of migration involves the movement of lower-skilled labour, predominantly from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos to Thailand. In Asean and around the world, labour migration has proved to be a force for good, rather than […]
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