ASEAN Free Trade Area

Swedish commercial vehicle builder Scania is opening a new assembly facility for trucks and bus chassis in the Bangkok Free Trade Zone in Samut...

Government officials and entrepreneurs of ASEAN will gather in Metro Manila of the Philippines for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Forum to coordinate regional...

The economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will likely not be attained by 2015, economists of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. At...

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), a trade bloc between ASEAN member states designed to cut red tape and allow freer trade, is still much...

Certain industries in the agriculture sector remain unprepared and are threatened by the upcoming establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will see...

The Indonesian government should direct its policy with the aim of improving the competitiveness of the nation’s manufacturing sector ahead of the ASEAN economic...

Indonesia's Industry Ministry MS Hidayat expressed his concerns on October 25 over the possibility that local manufacturers would lose out in trading goods when...

China is ready to start talks with ASEAN over an upgrade of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) at an early date, said Chinese...

The 23rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit kicked off in Brunei on October 9, bringing together leaders from ten ASEAN member states. Themed...

South Korea and the ten-member ASEAN  bloc will hold talks on September 27 on boosting their agricultural cooperation and on establishment of a joint...

The surprise announcement by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on September 19 that the Fed will not taper its money stimulus programme yet came...

Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in ASEAN has almost doubled from $2,882 in 2000 to $5,581 in 2011,...

The 10-member bloc of ASEAN as a community has been a failure so far, as the notion of national sovereignty continues to undermine its...

The 16 economic ministers of Asean+6 (10 ASEAN nations and China, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand) have agreed at a meeting...

ASEAN ambassadors to Qatar on August 7 marked the 46th anniversary of the founding day of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the...

Vietnam's automotive industry faces a major challenge under commitments to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (Afta) which will abolish auto import taxes in 2018. The...

The recent announcement that Qatar’s Foreign Ministry will set up a special unit to nurture relations with the 10-member bloc of the Association of...

2012 was another good year for ASEAN economies, and 2013 is shaping up to be one as well. Despite a weak global economy, Thailand,...