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ASEAN News, Dec 02, 2011



ASEAN countries promote cooperation on securities exchange
Philippine Star
HANOI (Xinhua) - At the on-going 15th CEOs meeting of the ASEAN Exchanges group in Hanoi, plans to integrate member securities exchange into the international financial field were put under discussions, reported local daily Vietnam News on Thursday. ...
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Southeast Asian Youth Ship Heads To Vietnam
Bernama
HO CHI MINH CITY (Vietnam), Nov 29 (Bernama) -- The 38th sailing of the Southeast Asian Youth Ship Programme, on the ship Fuji Maru, will arrive in Saigon port, here on Dec 4, according to the Standing Committee of the municipal Ho Chi Minh Communist ...
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Yogyakarta To Host Asean Sports Ministers Meeting
Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 (Bernama) -- Yogyakarta Special Province in Indonesia will host the inaugural Asean Sports Ministers Meeting from Dec 13 to 15, where the possibility of forming an official regional sports body is to be discussed. ...
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No reason to rush Myanmar to the Asean chair
Malaysia Star
At that time, Myanmar said it needed to focus on managing domestic affairs, although it was widely believed that the decision was a result of pressure from fellow Asean members and the international community. Many scholars and government officials ...
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Patrol ng Pilipino: Pnoy in the Asean Summit
ABS CBN News
Last week, for instance, President Noynoy Aquino travelled to Bali, Indonesia, famous for its beaches -- but to attend the ASEAN Summit. The ASEAN Summit is held annually. Leaders of southeast Asia attend to discuss the issues of their countries. ...
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India rejects trilateral security pact with Australia, US
IBNLive.com
The defence ministry also stated that it is not "keen on hopping to any multilateral security constructs in the region excepting those under the UN flag or such broad-based arrangements as ASEAN Defence Ministers Meet (ADMM +) and ASEANRegional Forum" ...
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IBNLive.com
Setting priorities
Asianjournal.com
Coming straight from the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) summit in Bali, Indonesia, the South Korean President came to the country last 21 November 2011 and signed five bilateral agreements with President Aquino the day after at the ...
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Affairs of the State
Philippine Star
8-13 and the 19th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held in Bali, Indonesia last Nov. 17-18. Specifically, Legarda sought post-summit reports from officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The Senate public hearing delved into ...
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India-Myanmar: a half-built gateway
Asia Times Online
By Bertil Lintner IMPHAL, Manipur - When a group of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ambassadors last year traveled the road from Imphal, in eastern India, to Moreh on the Myanmar border, the trip was officially arranged to show the ...
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Asia to crack top university ranks
China Daily
"Asian universities manage knowledge on Asia better than the West and they do it in a way the West cannot see or does not wish to see," Calvani said. He is an education expert and director of the institute's ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on ...
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Airbus alleges US interference in $22 billion Boeing deal
Reuters
Attending the Lion Air signing ceremony during a nine-day Pacific tour in mid-November, Obama called the deal a "win-win" for US workers and Asian consumers and said his administration and the Ex-Im bank played a key role in facilitating the sale. ...
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GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 2/12
VietNamNet Bridge
Vietnamese Ambassador to Canada Le Sy Vuong Ha presided over the 229th session of the ASEAN Committee (ACO) held at “Vietnam House” in Ottawa on December 1. Ambassadors from seven countries including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, ...
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VietNamNet Bridge
Southeast Asia to keep growth momentum through 2016 - OECD
Zamboanga Today Online
The OECD suggested a Green Growth as a viable development model for ASEAN countries in the long term. "Although ASEAN's CO2 emissions remain modest relative to OECD countries, emissions from ASEAN countries are growing faster by 5.5 percent a year ...
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Southeast Asia to pursue nuclear power?
UPI.com
Indonesia and ASEAN must immediately decide to stop their fantasy forever to build a nuclear power plant in Southeast Asia," said Arif Fiyanto of Greenpeace Indonesia. While Singapore is "a long way away" from making a decision about nuclear energy, ...
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Australia urged to work with Asia to combat trafficking
Radio Australia
The UN official responsible for looking into people trafficking says the Australian government needs to work more closely with Asian countries which are the main source nations in human trafficking. Dr Joy Ezeilo is the UN's Special Rapporteur in ...
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World marks International AIDS Day
Radio Australia
At last month's 19th ASEAN summit leaders committed to the lofty goal of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero HIV-related deaths. The 2011 Declaration detailed specific commitments by the 10 member nations to try to achieve that goal ...
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Asean+ 3 Contribute Rice Donations To Thailand's Flood Victims This December
Bernama
BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Bernama) -- The Asean+3 Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) and Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) will jointly distribute rice to flood victims in Thailand, starting from December this year, Thai News Agency ...
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Hillary Clinton's Myanmar trip marks significant shift in policy
Los Angeles Times
A reformed Myanmar similarly would bolster the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations as a regional bulwark against China. In the last two years, Beijing has challenged ASEANmembers over control of resource-rich areas in the South China Sea. ...
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Los Angeles Times
World at 7 Billion: Perspective on the Philippines
Philippine Star
Owing to the absence of a clear population policy (reproductive health/family planning program) in addition to just modest economic growth since the 1970s, the Philippines has sadly fallen way behind its original ASEAN neighbors (Thailand, Malaysia, ...
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Activities of Secretary-General in Indonesia, 17-20 November
IEWY News
He then spoke at the Business and Investment Summit of the Association of South-East AsianNations (ASEAN), where he called on private sector leaders to step up their efforts to improve women's and children's health. (See Press Release SG/SM/13956) The ...
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Good Tidings in Not-So-Good Times
Jakarta Globe
However, what is even more important is the need to give China a stake in the eventual shape of the East Asian order. Indonesia, with its own lynchpin role in Asean, should play a crucial role in keeping Asean in the conductor's role in the EAS. ...
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Myanmar Sees West Easing Sanctions Soon as Clinton to Visit
BusinessWeek
“We actually are much behind other Asean countries and the president wants to set a pretty good pace in democratization.” The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations voted this month to allow Myanmar to serve as its chair in 2014 to encourage ...
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International news digest for the week
Business Standard
PTI / November 26, 2011, 13:31 IST Bali (Indonesia): Citing global economic downturn to push for greater India-Asean cooperation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today pitched for conclusion of a "commercially- meaningful" Services and Investment pact by...
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Business Standard
Is There a Flicker of Progress for Freedom of Information in Burma?
Huffington Post (blog)
The ASEAN approved Burma's leadership for 2014, believing that it would serve as an incentive to continue political reforms. Although it is too soon to say if this major gesture from the regional organization was too early, it should push the US ...
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On path of economic integration
gulfnews.com
The limited successes of the GCC so far also contrast badly with the rapid rise — and success — of the Asean bloc, as well as the European Union. It is a fact, argued Dr N. Janardhan, a UAE-based political analyst, that while in foreign policy the ...
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gulfnews.com
Malaysians take tourism seriously
Philippine Star
I had been to Malacca some years ago courtesy of a Malaysian government program for ASEANjournalists and we drove down from Kuala Lumpur. This time we drove up from Singapore on excellent world class expressways. If the Malaysian company now managing ...
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To Reform, Stop Imprisoning Journalists
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
However, despite the the Burmese government's long record of impunity, on Nov 18, it was rewarded for its “reforms” by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), which approved its bid for the group's chairmanship in 2014. Asean is hoping that ...
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IPS – Inter Press Service News Agency » Blog Archive » Making ...
By admin
Ubonrat Siriyusavak, the content analysis study points to the fact that most of the ASEAN-related stories are tied to event-driven news and very little features, analysis and investigate reports; are often presented in spot news format; and often ...
IPS - Inter Press Service News Agency
ASEAN Lowers Interest Rates | Live Stock Trading News | Equities ...
By Shayne Heffernan
Interest Rate cuts set from Thailand to Philippines Asian central banks from Thailand to the Philippines preparing to cut interest rates as an escalating.
Live Stock Trading News | Equities,...
Asian Trends Monitoring » in the news: ASEAN's risky gamble with ...
By Johannes Loh
in the newsASEAN's risky gamble with Burma. By Johannes Loh, on November 28th, 2011. Last friday, I came across an article by Julie Sheetz, graduate student at Harvard University over at the East Asia Forum. She provides an interesting ...
Asian Trends Monitoring
Singapore now connected to all nine other ASEAN ... - Travel news
SINGAPORE-Singapore Changi Airport today welcomes the arrival of Lao Airlines from Vientiane, the 11th new city link for Changi this year.
Travel news
Asian Trends Monitoring » In the news: Corruption Perceptions ...
By Taufik Indrakesuma
ASEAN remains just about as corrupt (or non-corrupt) as it was last year. Some minor changes in ranks and in scores, but is probably attributable to the methodological tweaks that Transparency International makes from year to year (they even ...
Asian Trends Monitoring
The list of ASEAN's outstanding shares ... - Vietnam Business News
By VBN
A list of ASEAN's outstanding shares has been found on the common website of the ASEAN's stock exchanges – (aseanexchanges.org – AE), where Vietnamese securities investors can see the names of the shares which they never thought ...
Vietnam Business News
Press Release - Legarda: Briefing on the 19th ASEAN/ APEC ...
Briefing on the 19th ASEAN/ APEC Summits and Related Meetings 28 November 2011 10:00 A.M. 2/F, Sen. Padilla Room. This month, two meetings of great import to the region and to our country were held - one in Bali, and the other one in ...
Latest News Feed - Senate of...
Regional cooperation in Asean to rejuvenate Asia | BorneoPost ...
By emmor
thesundaypost · COLUMNS · EDGE OF TOWN · THE TIRED EYE · PERSPECTIVE · UNCLE DI · Home - News - Nation - Regional cooperation in Asean to rejuvenate Asia ... REGIONAL cooperation in Asean, among others the China-Asean Summit (10+1), Asean plus China, Japan and South Korea (10+3), will help to rejuvenate the development of the Asian region. The Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Working Committee for Offices Directly under the Central ...
BorneoPost Online | Borneo ,...
Vietnam chairs 229th session of ASEAN Committee in Ottawa ...
Vietnamese ambassador Ha assumed ACO Presidency from July 1 to December 31, acting as a co-ordinator for ASEAN's diplomatic representative offices in Canada in organizing friendship sports events and releasing ASEAN's news ...
Talk Vietnam
Burma: a test that ASEAN may be failing | Siam News Network
By East Asia Forum
Author: Julie Sheetz, Harvard University Even before the announcement that ASEAN member states had awarded the 2014 rotating chairmanship to Burma, it was already a foregone conclusion. Burma's campaign ...
Siam News Network
Premier Hun Sen Receives ASEAN Youth Delegation - National News
By Sek Samnang
AKP, Phnom Penh, November 30, 2011–. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen warmly receives here on Tuesday a youth delegation of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) led by Mr. Massaki Sato. ...
» National News
Wat Pa Pradoo: Remarkable Reflections - Thai-ASEAN News Network
Phra Buddha Saiyas, a large reclining Buddha image enshrined at the temple of Wat Pa Pradoo in Rayong province, is said to be the only image of its kind in the ...
www.thailandoutlook.tv/tan/viewdata.aspx?DataID=1050150
Movies: Cool Response - Thai-ASEAN News Network
“Awful. And practically unwatchable. The good news, such as it is, is that some scenes are so bad, they're funny,” notes ABC News. - Opening December 1. ...
www.tannetwork.tv/tan/ViewData.aspx?DataID=1050261
Aquino back from ASEAN Summit in Bali - GMA News Online - The ...
November 19, 2011 10:10pm. President Benigno Aquino III arrived home Saturday night from his participation in the 19th ASEAN Summit in Bali, Indonesia . ...
www.gmanetwork.com/.../aquino-back-from-asean-summit-in...
Latest Thai Asean News Network News | Tradenews.twaynet.com
Thai Asean News Network. Posted on November 30, 2011. An executive of Honda Automobile thanks the government for giving the company exemption of ...
tradenews.twaynet.com/tag/thai-asean-news-network/
News - News Focus: ASEAN Leaders Reiterate Commitment to ...
News Focus: ASEAN Leaders Reiterate Commitment to Supporting Palestine Source: ANTARANews By Fardah Jakarta - A few United Nations Security Council ...
www.embassyofindonesia.org/news/2011/11/news048.htm
ASEAN ministerial meeting on sci-tech opens - Related news - 11 ...
The 14th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology (AMMST-14) opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 26. - ASEAN ministerial meeting on sci-tech ...
en.baomoi.com/Info/ASEAN-ministerial...on.../207663.epi
Asian Trends Monitoring » Archive for In the news
in the news: ASEAN's risky gamble with Burma. By Johannes Loh, on November 28th, 2011. Last friday, I came across an article by Julie Sheetz, graduate ...
www.asiantrendsmonitoring.com/category/in-the-news/
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