07 March, 2016
As appeared in Bloomberg
Senior Fellow of the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute Pauline Loong spoke on Bloomberg about the big gap in China’s policy blueprint for the next five years. She pointed out that notably missing from the outline of China’s Five Year Plan is any mention of strategies to deal with possible large-scale capital outflows once the currency barrier is dismantled, as envisioned in the push for renminbi globalization.
SME Magazine Tan Sri Dr. Munir Majid, President of the ASEAN Business Club, Dato’ Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Minister for International Trade and Industry of Malaysia and Pongpiti Ektheinchai, Head of International Relations of Stock
Borneo Post Online KUALA LUMPUR: A meeting of Asean Senior Economic Offcials (SEOM) in August will evaluate the potential of a free trade agreement between the regional grouping and the Eurasian Economic Union(EAEU). Minister
As appeared in New Straits Times Online KUALA LUMPUR: Two chapters of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Cooperation (RCEP) agreement text will likely be concluded in the next round of negotiations in Auckland in June,
As appeared in Bernama Regional businesses welcome the strengthening of private sector’s role in AEC 2025 but call for tangible results KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 (Bernama) ASEAN Business Club and regional companies expressed support
Foreign Affairs Russia courts Myanmar Just weeks after parliament approved closer Myanmar-Russia military relations, President Htin Kyaw shook hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-ASEAN summit in Sochi. Russia seems set on
Regional businesses welcome the strengthening of private sector’s role in AEC 2025 but call for tangible results KUALA LUMPUR, 24th April – ASEAN Business Club and regional companies expressed support for the ASEAN Economic
21 May, 2016 As appeared in TheStar.com.my THE level of interest in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) among the business community in the world at large has increased tremendously since its pronouncement at the
Foreign Affairs US eases economic sanctions on Myanmar The US has lifted more of its economic sanctions on Myanmar, removing ten state-owned companies in the banking, timber and mining industries from the blacklist, as
Economy Myanmar targets US$8 billion foreign investment Myanmar has targeted US$8 billion foreign investment in the present fiscal year of 2016-17, the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) announced on 9 May. The
07 May, 2016 As appeared in TheStar.com.my BREADTALK, a Singapore bakery, will open its first outlet in Myanmar in early 2017, in a franchise agreement with that country’s real estate giant the Shwe Taung