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.
The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines will focus on four priority areas next year to attain inclusive growth in the country and the Asia-Pacific.
If the strategy is to stay away from FTAs since they enable imports, India might as well give up hopes of becoming a global manufacturing hub and manufacturing exporter in the foreseeable future
Manila and Washington are now exploring a potential free-trade agreement (FTA) to deepen the economic relationship between the two countries, as discussed by President Duterte and US President Donald J. Trump in their meeting last month.
Time and again India has flagged its concerns on the slow pace of services trade
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
