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ASEAN and EU must improve connectivity

The ASEAN-European Union agenda on connectivity is growing and the EU is committed to strengthening its engagement. Since it is a major economic player in South East Asia, the largest investor and the second largest trading partner of ASEAN, the EU needs to ensure that cooperation on connectivity – both in hard and soft infrastructure – […]

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TPP nations achieve progress toward new free trade deal

HANOI — The Trans-Pacific Partnership nations have made progress toward a new free trade agreement slated for November following the US withdrawal from the pact, according to Japanese chief negotiator of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Kazuyoshi Umemoto. Umemoto was quoted by Japanese news agency Kyodo as saying so to the press on September 22 after two […]

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Belt and Road greases the wheels of ASEAN

ASEAN countries, with their enormous demand for infrastructure investments, should capitalise on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), business leaders from the ASEAN region urged. But there is a necessity to align the BRI with the ASEAN blueprint, and ASEAN needs to iron out the problems derived from the tension between Japan’s involvement in ASEAN […]

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