Senior officials from China and the ASEAN countries gathered in Nanning, China to discuss the development of Version 3.0 of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) and the need to progressively enhance regional open cooperation.
Cambodia is confident of realising its goal of exporting 1 million tonnes of rice by 2025 as exports have reached over 400,000 tonnes in the first eight months of this year.
Like other countries in Asia, Malaysia has seen lower supplies and an increase in rice prices in recent weeks as hot weather threatens harvests.
Federation of Free Farmers national manager Raul Montemayor said traders are waiting on the Marcos administration’s next move, following the implementation of rice price ceilings.
Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow of the Asia Institute under the University of Melbourne, has highlighted economic cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia in her recent article published on the website The Conversation.
Việt Nam-Japan cooperation in the field of agriculture could improve by 200-300 per cent in the coming decades, said Nguyễn Đỗ Anh Tuấn, head of the International Cooperation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) during a seminar themed "Vietnam-Japan cooperation towards green growth" in Hà Nội yesterday.
Cooperation between Japan and ASEAN in the area of digital transformation could be the linchpin for establishing multilateral rules on digital governance amid rising techno-nationalism, protectionism and the fragmentation of technologies.
Last week’s ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Jakarta were attended by Southeast Asian leaders along with representatives of Dialogue Partners from the United States, China, Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, and other nations.