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Vietnam lags behind ASEAN neighbors in labor productivity

20 tháng 12. 2016

The country needs to boost labor productivity to maintain its rapid economic growth.

Vietnam striving to cement the central role of ASEAN in 2017

20 tháng 12. 2016

PSNews - An ASEAN cooperation inter-sector meeting was held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 14th to evaluate the ASEAN cooperation and the collaboration between ministries and units in 2016, and to draft directions on ASEAN cooperation in the coming time.

Vietnam welcomes all ASEAN and international enterprises: PM

20 tháng 12. 2016

Viet Nam is exerting efforts to improve the business climate and welcomes all ASEAN and international enterprises which have chosen the country as a trusted and attractive investment destination.

AEC 2025: Fresh opportunities and challenges for Vietnam

20 tháng 12. 2016

Author: Nguyen Cam Tu Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade

An India-ASEAN alliance for Asian integration?

20 tháng 12. 2016

At a time when New Delhi is beginning to not just ‘Look East’ but also ‘Act East’, and when parallel integrative processes are underway globally, including the ASEAN-led process, the incipient China-led process and the U.S.-led TTP, India and ASEAN could together produce a brilliant new era of Asian integration.

Integration is slowly taking hold in ASEAN's banking sector

20 tháng 12. 2016

BANGKOK -- Although bank regulators in Southeast Asia are making only slow progress in opening up the region's financial industry, banks are managing to spread their wings through mergers and acquisitions, and using digital technology.

Think tank: PH automobile excise tax lowest in Asean

20 tháng 12. 2016

Phillipine - State think tank National Tax Research Center (NTRC) threw its support behind the government’s plan to hike taxes on new cars, saying in a report the Philippines imposes the lowest motor vehicle excise taxes in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region.

An optimist’s view of Asean integration

20 tháng 12. 2016

"In my efforts to peek into the future–specifically the prospects of the Asean Economic Community, or Asean regional integration–I interviewed Dr. Roberto F. de Ocampo, an economist by training, chairman of the Philippine Veterans Bank and a member of the board of advisers of the RFO Center for Public Finance and Regional Cooperation, an Asian Development Bank regional knowledge hub."