THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Free Trade Area (AFTA) and its core governing framework, the Asean Trade in Goods Agreement (Atiga), are important elements to Southeast Asia’s regional ...

Singapore to deepen ASEAN integration and widen external ties as chair in 2027, says Vivian Balakrishnan. Read more at ...

As air service development professionals were debating the impact of ASEAN open skies during Routes Asia and the general potential hailing from the rising middle class in Indonesia, Philippines, and ...

For the ASEAN member states, the benchmark of successful regionalism has been ASEAN’s effectiveness in bringing the region closer. The lack of interstate conflict has been credited to ASEAN’s success ...

Asean’s deputy secretary-general Satvinder Singh says one key issue for the bloc is how to work with world powers like the US and China Read more at The Business Times.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is pushing for deeper integration with its Southeast Asian neighbors to strengthen food ...

Asean’s next stage of economic integration could draw on the principles underpinned by Malaysia’s New Industrial Master Plan (NIMP) 2030, said ...

The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at end-2015 has brought into sharp focus the issue of financial and economic integration in the region. This paper takes stock of ASEAN’s ...

The ASEAN Economic Community, planned to come into effect in 2015, is expected to liberalise goods, capital and skilled labour flows in the ASEAN region. While there has been considerable progress in ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Southeast Asian nations must accelerate regional economic integration, diversify their markets and stay united to tackle the fallout from global trade disruptions resulting ...

The agreement on the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community signed on November 22 in Kuala Lumpur by the leading nations of Southeast Asia finally entered into force with much fanfare on December 31, ...