EU foreign ministers have agreed to step up political engagement with Thailand, including on human rights, fundamental freedoms and the road to democracy.
Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son asked ministries and agencies to focus on realising outcomes reached during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week at a review meeting of the APEC 2017 National Secretariat and the APEC 2017 National Committee’s sub-committee in charge of contents in Hanoi on December 12.
The ASEAN Master Plan for Connectivity (AMPC) and China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have major shared goals. Both envisage transport connectivity as a way of bringing countries closer together, improving access to trade, investment, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam is attending the ASEAN-India Connectivity Summit which opened in India’s capital city of New Delhi on December 11.
In the Golden Jubilee year of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a generous accounting of its achievements this past year would call its track record a mixed one at best.
THE incoming chair of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Papua New Guinea, announced at a key planning meeting in Port Moresby that the 21 APEC member countries will take steps towards enabling more digitally-driven and inclusive trade and growth in 2018.
Keeping with Indias initiative of connectivity with southeast Asia under its Act East Policy, New Delhi will host an Asean-India Connectivity Summit (AICS) on December 11-12 on the theme "Powering Digital and Physical Linkages for Asia in the 21st Century", the External Affairs Ministry said on Saturday.
Singapore has been invited by Argentina to attend the annual meeting of the world's top economic leaders next year.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
