Businesses want clear AEC goals

4 December, 2013
By Business Times |

JAKARTA: The Asean Business Club, a group of business leaders, has launched a report calling for clarity on the goals of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ integration. The report titled “Lifting the Barriers”

ABC presents white papers on tackling trade barriers

4 December, 2013
By The Borneo Post |

JAKARTA: The Asean Business Club (ABC) launched the Lifting-The-Barriers (LTB) Reports yesterday, a white paper outlining possible solutions to critical bottlenecks and barriers hindering free trade in the region, such as economic nationalism, labour

Encourage private sector: Business leaders

4 December, 2013
By The Jakarta Post |

Business leaders from the ASEAN Business Club have said that the governments of ASEAN member states needed to encourage and support their private sectors to utilize the benefits of integration in the forthcoming 2015

ASEAN Launches Lifting-The-Barriers Report

4 December, 2013
By The Jakarta Post |

In a bid to support the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015, the ASEAN Business Club (ABC) had just launched the ‘Lifting-the-Barriers Report’ at the Grand Hyatt on Friday, November 29, 2013, a white paper

Continuing tension worries top banker, THAI

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

As anti-government protests drag on, some top businesspeople are voicing concerns about the potential damage to regional competitiveness and the all-important tourism industry, but at least one rating agency says there is no reason

SEA businessmen positive about economy: poll

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

Confidence levels of Southeast Asian businessmen regarding the economic outlook at home and worldwide have hit a two- year high, a new poll has found. Many more of them are upbeat over the improving

Asean will mobilise all resources to help Philippines: Asean sec-gen

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

Asean will mobilise “all available means” to help the Philippines get back on its feet in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Asean secretary-general Le Luong Minh has pledged, after visiting disaster-hit areas there last

Myanmar to spend US$34m to host Asean Summit

26 November, 2013
By Asia News Network | Source: Eleven Media Group

The President’s Office has allocated a budget of 33.4 billion kyats (US$34 million) to host the Asean Summit, a senior official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. Aung Htoo, deputy director-general

Either GST, or M’sia faces bankruptcy: Najib

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

The Malaysian prime minister said implementing the tax to increase government revenue was necessary to avoid the country borrowing more money Malaysia has a stark choice of either increasing government revenue via the goods