In the list of top ten airlines in the world, measured by international passengers flown, only one ASEAN carrier, Singapore airways, makes the list as the seventh busiest airline.1 The remainder of the list
When Indonesia announced that it will limit foreign ownership of local banks from almost 100 per cent to just 50 per cent in 2011, it took no time at all for ASEAN co-members to
The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) released a draft of the new foreign investment laws, to media on Friday. Deputy Railways minister Lwin Thaung announced the revision of the law in January, claiming that the
The strength and robustness of an economy hinges on its ability to recover from recession, if not to avoid it altogether. ASEAN has achieved both. It has recovered from the Asian Financial Crisis of
The litmus test of free trade lies in the depth and sweep by which tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) are removed. On the former, the track record of ASEAN is nothing short of phenomenal.
It is clear that the European Union is still mired in various fiscal and financial difficulties while ASEAN and East Asia are not. There is no reason for hubris, however, because perturbations in the
ASEAN ratified a Charter in 2008 and put in place a new legal and institutional framework for itself. This marked a change, in principle, from ASEAN being a loosely organised regional body run by
YESTERDAY’S ASEAN We stand between yesterday’s ASEAN, and tomorrow’s ASEAN. A new world is unfolding and we need a new ASEAN to meet its challenges and harness its opportunities. The old ASEAN was defined
ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Lombok in January 2011 agreed the idea of joint bidding to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup. Solicitation for bids to host the 2030 World Cup will begin in
Numbers alone cannot tell a full story. The United States (US) has the world’s largest federal debt, yet it is not expected to default. Japan’s national debt is equally damning, at more than 120