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WITH just 11 days to go before the United States-ASEAN Summit gets underway, officials on both sides of the pacific are preparing for the two-day event which will bring together U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders from the 10 ASEAN countries. The first stand-alone United States-ASEAN Summit will be on February 15 to 16. The meeting was called when ASEAN and the U.S. upgraded their level of cooperation from dialogue partner to strategic partner in […]
JAKARTA, 1 February 2016 – Demonstrating how the potential benefits of the ASEAN Community are more than just economic, a new initiative has been launched to bring together senior leaders from all ten ASEAN countries. The ASEAN Leaders Programme is being launched to bring together 70 senior leaders from across the ASEAN, from all sectors and walks of life, to work on a challenge relevant to the region. The inaugural programme will be held in […]
(Reuters) — Myanmar’s new members of parliament gathered on Wednesday (February 3) to choose a new upper house speaker. Hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) were sworn in to Myanmar’s parliament on Monday (February 1), with enough seats to choose the country’s first democratically-elected government since the military took power in 1962. Before Wednesday’s session began, some members of parliament spoke to the media and said they […]
INFECTIOUS disease experts have warned that the fast-spreading Zika virus is likely being under-diagnosed in Southeast Asia. An Australian was infected after a monkey bite in Bali, Indonesia. A 27-year-old man was diagnosed with acute Zika virus after arriving at the Royal Darwin Hospital with fever and a rash seven days after the bite. He’d also been bitten by mosquitoes while holidaying in Bali. They also noted the virus has similar symptoms to other viruses, […]
SUPREME Court chief justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno revealed that the high tribunal has presumed in the past that foundlings are natural-born Filipinos. During the continuation of the oral arguments yesterday on the petitions by Senator Grace Poe assailing her disqualification by the poll body, Sereno grilled Commission on Elections commissioner Arthur Lim, posing tough questions about the constitutional provisions on citizenship, particularly on the theory of bloodlines and the rights of foundlings. Sereno, during her […]
The Philippine Red Cross or PRC mobilized on Tuesday all its chapters nationwide to encourage the people to eliminate all possible areas where mosquitoes can breed. The call for mobilization came amid health advisories and alerts on Zika fever that have been issued by health authorities all over the world, including the Pan American Health Organization, United States centers for disease control and prevention, World Health Organization, Department Of Health, and the International Federation of […]
(Reuters) — Real estate markets in Asia Pacific are expected to deliver strong total returns in the next three years driven by the huge weight of capital coming into the region. And with global stock markets expected to experience heightened volatility this year, real estate investment is likely to see even more interest. Stuart Crow, Head of Capital Markets in Asia for real estate expert JLL, said: ”We’ve got some of the world’s largest […]
ILOILO CITY, Feb.3(PIA)—Farmers in Iloilo are keeping up with the challenges of the deluge of agricultural imports, once the ASEAN Integration impacts on the country. The imports can compete with the local produce and farmers should also be competitive, Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Operations Edilberto de Luna said during a visit here. “We should make our rice production competitive” de Luna told the farmers in one of the areas he visited. It can be learned […]
(Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry in Beijing accused the United States on Monday (February 1) of seeking maritime hegemony in the name of freedom of navigation after a U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade is shipped every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have […]
(Reuters) — Thailand‘s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday (February 1) that a general election will take place in 2017, amid criticism that a draft constitution unveiled last week would delay the poll. A draft constitution released on Friday (January 29) has been pilloried by all major political parties, raising fears it will be rejected in a July referendum, delaying a return to democracy. “The year 2017, 2017, 2017,” a visibly irritated Prayuth told […]
Malaysian aviation officials were on Thursday (January 28) examining a metal object believed to be plane wreckage which washed up on the Malaysian east coast, prompting speculation for the second time in a week that debris from missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft MH370 may have surfaced. Local media reported that the object, which was white and measured two metres long, was spotted floating in the waters near the town of Besut in the eastern state of […]
(Reuters) — The 12th National Congress of the Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party concluded in Hanoi on Thursday (January 28) after re-electing Nguyen Phu Trong as the party’s General Secretary. The re-election was an expected outcome that bolsters consensus rule but creates some uncertainty about the momentum of economic reform. Trong, 71, is seen by experts as a conservative apparatchik and a party loyalist unlikely to deviate from the party’s economic and foreign policy agenda, […]
