Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is flying to New Delhi next week to meet up with Indian PM Modi, with the aim to convince India to take up the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). After seven years, the negotiations were completed last November in Bangkok.

As the global trade regime threatens to unravel under the Trump administration’s assault on the WTO dispute settlement disciplines and its tearing up the rules in its trade war with China, ASEAN would seem the most unlikely bloc to spring effectively to its defence.

ASEAN countries are betting that the space industry will provide a new engine of growth, as the global economy sputters and government finances become overstretched. Asian Nikkei provides a focus on Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

ASEAN continues its impressive growth: according to the latest ASEAN Intregration Report, ASEAN is now the world's fifth largest economy (iif considered as a single entity). Notwithstanding growing uncertainties in the global economy, ASEAN’s overall economic performance remains robust. Thus, the rise of the bloc signals the success of of the regional integration process in South-East Asia.

The government will seek the approval of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) to adopt an international treaty that will compel the country to stop the use of child labour. U Thein Swe, minister of Labour, Immigration and Population, told the assembly about the salient points of the Minimum Age Convention of ILO, which includes the abolition of child labour.

Myanmar-based executives and investors are bracing for a business slowdown in the run-up to next year’s general elections, as uncertainty rises over the Southeast Asian nation’s political and policy directions.

La Cina si sta muovendo per sviluppare legami economici con la regione del Sud-Est asiatico attraverso la Belt and Road Initiative, cercando allo stesso tempo di consolidare il controllo del Mar Cinese Meridionale.

I Paesi dell’ASEAN sono sempre più vicini alla costruzione di un mercato unico dell'aviazione. Durante un incontro dei Ministri del Trasporto tenutosi a Hanoi, sono stati siglati due protocolli per integrare il trasporto aereo nella regione

Il Ministro Teresa Bellanova, in occasione del consiglio dei ministri Ue dell’agricoltura, ha chiesto di ripristinare i dazi sulle importazioni di riso japonica dal Myanmar, introducendo la cosiddetta clausola di salvaguardia. In pochi anni, infatti, le importazioni a dazi zero sono aumentate del 213%, passando da 27.000 a 86.000 tonnellate.