Christina Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on Tuesday (27/02) reminded countries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, that they must prepare their labor force for the coming digital revolution.
The Kingdom can no longer depend on the same old growth drivers to sustain its economy if it wants to move into higher value-added production and climb up the global value chain, writes Pheakdey Heng.
Southeast Asian countries are generally optimistic about the use of emerging technologies such as advanced analytics in manufacturing industries but the positive sentiment has not led to action
Next month, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be welcoming the 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Sydney for a special summit. The summit will focus mainly on business and security ties including the South China Sea dispute and the on-going Rohingya crisis. This summit will be the first of its kind to be hosted by Australia.
Businesses in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (Participating Countries) are all moving toward the electronic filing of the Form D, also known as the certificate of origin, under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (e-ATIGA Form D).
The conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement between Sri Lanka and Singapore is an indication of a positive signal that Sri Lanka was ready to open up to the outside world and engage with them, said Chief Negotiator of the National Negotiating Team of Sri Lanka, K.J. Weerasinghe.
Australia will cut 90 percent of import tariff lines in 2018 and 100 percent of them in 2020 under the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) roadmap, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
Singapore faces competition among great powers, internal ASEAN challenges and a test of its principles, says one Brookings Institution expert.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
