China Railway, the state-owned railway enterprise of China, will expand Cambodia’s railway system as part of the Trans-Asean Railway, a railroad connecting China with its Asean neighbours.
Indonesia always attaches importance to its cooperation with other ASEAN member countries and will work with them to boost the bloc’s development, said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.
Despite two high-profile stumbles on the Asian trade front at the end of 2017, the new year will likely see Canada keep pursuing both a free-trade deal with China and a seat at the now 11-strong Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11) headlined by Japan.
It’s been boom time for emerging markets in 2017, with strong gains in many developing countries around the world.
Following the recently signed ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (AHKFTA) and the 2016 revised ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), Vietnamese enterprises have another great opportunity to increase their profitability in the Chinese market, achieving this potential also poses a major challenge.
On Dec 18, 1990, the UN adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. For the next decade, ASEAN civil society led the momentum for the observance of this date as an International Migrants Day. It is a day to bring to the forefront the human rights of migrants, to shed light on their contributions and make their voices heard.
A new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Hong Kong and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a related Investment Agreement are set to create fresh opportunities for business collaboration between Hong Kong and Myanmar.
Officials, experts and entrepreneurs gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on December 15, discussing measures to help businesses capitalise on the ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreements (FTA).
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
