Upgraded ASEAN-China Free Trade Pact stalled
ASEAN and China will not be able to announce the long-awaited upgrade to the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement due to divergent views on trade and investment, according to an informed source.
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ASEAN and China will not be able to announce the long-awaited upgrade to the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement due to divergent views on trade and investment, according to an informed source.
Yangon, Myanmar - Myanmar's embattled junta on Thursday invited armed groups opposed to its rule to stop fighting and start talks to bring peace, after three-and-a-half years of conflict.
A female Polish passenger was arrested today at Suvarnabhumi International Airport after she allegedly made a bomb threat during a Thai VietJet flight from Danang, Vietnam, bound for Bangkok.
Pope Francis has offered to give refuge on Vatican territory to Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Italian media said on Tuesday.
Singapore's former transport minister will appear in court Tuesday for the start of its first political graft trial in more than four decades, which has gripped a nation often cited as one of the world's least corrupt.
Chile is the third economy wanting to join the word’s largest free trade agreement, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which has been in force in the past two years.
Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa chaired a meeting today with ambassadors of Mekong riparian countries to discuss cooperation in resolving the twin problems of drought and flood.
Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa today outlined what he described as Thailand’s proactive diplomacy that will, among other things, see the country host the ASEAN Troika Plus meeting later this year to discuss efforts to help resolve the crisis in Myanmar.
Yangon, Myanmar - The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, as the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could be in need of help.
China has once again denied accusations that its major dams have released water into the Mekong River, exacerbating the ongoing flooding in Thailand.
Thailand has approached Myanmar for talks between water management agencies in tackling the common problem of flooding, to prevent a repeat of the devastating flooding which struck the two countries last week.
The head of a Malaysian conglomerate accused of running homes where hundreds of children and youths were allegedly sexually abused said there were 'one or two' cases of sodomy at the shelters but he denied other allegations of misconduct.