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KUALA LUMPUR: Details on who exactly are in an informal advisory group to Malaysia’s chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ... at the S Rajaratnam School of ...

ASEAN’s Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) aims to boost the region’s digital economy and enhance connectivity. But ASEAN’s women entrepreneurs face distinct challenges, including limited ...

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who highlighted key issues such as the country’s leadership role as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the safeguarding of national sovereignty and ensuring an ...

Early indications suggest that these expectations of Malaysia as the 2025 leader of Asean may be hard to fulfil. One problem is that Malaysia’s chairmanship risks the potential of being too much ...

1. When Laos handed the Chairmanship of Asean and Related Summits to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Oct 14, 2024, Malaysia was certain that it could accept the proverbial baton and ...

THE Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) of the World Bank has been a popular measurement for the quality of governance in over 215 countries since 1996. It measures six broad dimensions of ...

Today marks four years since the people of Myanmar began their courageous resistance against the military's failed Feb. 1, 2021 coup, and led a process of home-grown political transformation.

pointing out that Thailand has not yet utilised its geographical advantage of being at the centre of Asean countries. Thailand's location in the middle of South-East Asia gives it the potential to ...

THE world found itself on the brink of a trade war last week as US President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again stance on tariffs came to a head, sending South-east Asian currencies into a spin. The ...

I repeatedly heard the use of a once-familiar phrase that had somehow evaded Asean summit statements in recent years: the grouping’s ambition to turn into “a single market and production base”.