THIS weekend, Asean leaders will be in Sydney to attend the first Asean-Australia Special Summit. Proposed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the first Asean-Australia Biennial Summit in Laos in 2016, the event will include a leaders’ summit and retreat, a business summit, and a counter-terrorism conference.
Changing power structures in the region should not lead to fault lines within Asean, says PM Lee
The European Union (EU) has affirmed it would consolidate relations with Cambodia at the 10th EU-Cambodia Joint Committee meeting in Brussels, Belgium, from March 12-14, according to Fresh News, the most read news website in Cambodia.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will sign the Joint Statement on establishing the Vietnam – Australia Strategic Partnership during the Vietnamese PM's visit to Australia, creating the political and legal framework for the two countries' relations to develop in the coming time.
The signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) took place last week, but questions now loom over the status of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The RCEP recently progressed to yet another ministerial meeting on 3rd March, after which it was reported to be closer to finalisation.
AUSTRALIA is reaffirming its relationship with Asean this week when it hosts a special summit in Sydney, but the Philippines is missing out on much of the opportunities.
China is now Asean’s largest trading partner, according to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who spoke to the media late last week at a press conference on the sidelines of the first session of the 2018 National People’s Congress (NPC).
Vietnam should encourage other ASEAN members to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a senior official from the Japanese Foreign Ministry said at the Ministerial Conference of the OECD in Tokyo on March 8.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
