Thailand is mulling retaliatory measures against Indonesia after the latter banned imports of Thai longan and durian during harvest seasons.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has affirmed that China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will expand cooperation in various fields and forge a closer community with a shared future.
A seminar on ASEAN-RoK a tourism investment took place in Seoul on June 8 to provide up-to-date information on investment environment and opportunities to invest in tourism industries of the 10 ASEAN member states.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has questioned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, claiming that smaller participants are at a disadvantage.
The second edition of a conference on the mutual recognition of professionals in the tourism industry across Asean member states will take place in Phnom Penh’s Sokha Hotel on June 20-21.
The Governor General of New Zealand, Dame Patsy Reddy, has stressed the important role played by Vietnam in multilateral institutions when talking to the new Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand.
The European Union (EU) is "fully supportive" of the efforts towards reconciliation being taken by the two Koreas, its Managing Director for Asia-Pacific Gunnar Wiegand said on Friday (June 8).
The TPP-11 deal and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are among the important regional cooperation mechanisms, said Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia, Dr Makio Miyagawa.