…to a G20 Summit and related meetings. The country attended the G20 meetings, in both the Republic of Korea and Canada, when it assumed the Chair of ASEAN in 2010….

…brief Asia House corporate members on the current status of EU FTAs with Malaysia and the Philippines, and will give a broader outline of EU FTAs with other ASEAN members….

…the US, was the first leader from an ASEAN member state to meet President Trump, who withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) of which Vietnam would have been…

…UK might produce a figure like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, or Emmanuel Macron, newly-elected President of France. Professor Mahbubani was a contributor to ASEAN: From Vision to Reality –…

A region-to-region Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is the ultimate goal for both the European Union (EU) as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Negotiations for an EU-ASEAN…

…has previously been posted in Madrid and Bangkok as Deputy Head of Mission. The Philippines and ASEAN as a whole continues to be a strong focus of the Asia House…

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will meet US President Donald Trump next week in Washington. “President Trump looks forward to discussing ways to strengthen our bilateral relationship and deepen…

…Russia, according to Bloomberg. BRI loan deals were signed with ASEAN countries including Indonesia and Malaysia, and a Free Trade Agreement was signed between China and Georgia, reports the Diplomat….

Doubt was cast over ASEAN’s cohesion, particularly in the light of the Brexit vote, by a panel of speakers at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN, which discussed the role…

At yesterday’s World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Cambodia, AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes emphasised the need for ASEAN to become more inclusive in order to see better economic growth in the…

…conditions’. This may be so, but as regional tensions have grown, so has the value of Cambodia to Beijing, especially due to its membership in ASEAN. As ASEAN works by…

…in an interview with the Myanmar Times. The EU is the biggest investor in ASEAN economies but not in Myanmar. Bilateral trade reached €1.55 billion in 2016, up from €404…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on Asian leaders to cut funding and apply UN sanctions to North Korea at a meeting of ASEAN Ministers in Washington on…

At ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta yesterday, US Vice President Pence announced that Trump will be attending the ASEAN, APEC and East Asia summits in the Philippines and Vietnam in November….

…Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, reports the Strait Times. Hiroshige Seko, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, has put forward proposals with ASEAN economic ministers,…

…ASEAN, should not be forgotten. A recent World Bank report forecasts the five fastest growing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as Laos, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar and China. With…