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ASEAN and Canada agreed on 17 November to officially launch negotiations for an ASEAN-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to boost economic, trade, and investment ties.     …

The ASEAN region has tremendous investment potential and the bloc’s member states are expected to play an important role in driving global trade recovery after…

Indonesia and the Philippines, together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), launched at the COP26 summit a new partnership to establish an Energy Transition Mechanism…

The easing of COVID-related restrictions led to record rates of expansion in factory output and new orders in the ASEAN bloc in October, with IHS…

The leaders of the ASEAN member states and the United States pledged at the end of October to support the digital development in the Southeast…

Southeast Asia will need some US$2 trillion in investments over the next decade for a sustainable energy transition, while around US$1 trillion economic opportunities are…

Rising public infrastructure spending and improving consumer confidence will support the Philippines’ economic growth this year and next amid progress in the country’s vaccination programme,…

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports continued to grow for an eight straight month in July, rising by 12.7 percent year over year, Enterprise Singapore (ESG), the…

The ASEAN Secretariat, together with the East Asia Business Council (EABC), hosted on 26 July the first of a series of webinars designed to help…

The ASEAN bloc has made good progress in advancing and supporting green jobs, but it needs strengthening in some policy areas so that green jobs…