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.

 

Tax cut not meant to help Thailand’s rich

25 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: The Nation

Thailand’s finance ministry anticipates that its plans to restructure the income tax rate will reduce government revenue by 27 billion baht (US$849 million) a year. However, the move is also expected to stimulate spending

Asean single aviation seen signed by December 2015

22 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: The Brunei Times

The Declaration of the Asean Single Aviation Market (ASAM) will be signed by December 2015, according to a recent consultation paper on the proposed policy for the establishment of a regional aviation service in

Thai PM has one clear choice: step down

22 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: The Nation

The Constitutional Court’s Wednesday verdict shooting down the charter amendment related to senators’ selection and qualifications may not have caused any major changes within the Pheu Thai-led government, but it has created a political

Development partners pledge further assistance for Laos

21 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: Vientiane Times

Development partners have pledged further assistance to Laos, President Choummaly Sayasone was told yesterday. The pledge was made at the 11th High-Level Round Table Meeting (RTM) between the government and its development partners that

M’sia braces itself for onset of floods, storm

21 November, 2013
By Asia News Network |

While the Philippines and Vietnam are recovering from the devastation of super typhoon Haiyan, Malaysia is bracing itself for the onset of the annual year-end floods and storms. About 57,000 personnel from the Fire

S’pore 3rd best city for uni students

21 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: The Straits Times

Singapore has jumped nine places to become the world’s third-best city and remained the best in Asia for university students, according to an annual ranking exercise by a London-based consultancy. The findings were unveiled

ASEAN Secretariat Needs More Muscle, Says Air Asia’s Fernandes

24 August, 2013

SINGAPORE, Aug 23 (NNN-Bernama) — AirAsia Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Network ASEAN Forum 2013 (NAF) Convener Tony Fernandes says the regional secretariat needs more “meat and muscle”. Speaking at the aviation roundtable