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Indonesia considers joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Indonesia is studying the possibility of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without the United States, known as TPP-11. The country will discuss the matter...
Malaysia lauded as Asia’s best retirement destination
Malaysia has been named the best destination to retire among Asian countries on the newly issued Retirement index 2018 list by International Living.com.
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Malaysia expects one million medical tourists this year
Malaysia is set to welcome around one million health travelers in 2017, up from 860,000 last year, and generate respective revenue of $292 million, ...
Pacific Alliance seeks closer ties to ASEAN
The Pacific Alliance, a new grouping of four Latin American countries - Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile -, is looking forward to working with...
Police: ‘Organised crime can turn Malaysia into Mexico’
If there is no release of preventive laws to curb organised crime, Malaysia is on its way to turn into a Mexico or Colombia,...
Malaysia reluctant to join TPP
Malaysia has said its participation in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership would depend on "ensuring its sovereignty" in the pact which aims to combine the...
Indonesia and India named world’s biggest shark killers
In July, a European Union-sponsored study found that Indonesia and India kill the most sharks of all countries. The purpose of the study was...
What Malaysian negotiators don’t want you to know about the TPP
The sheer magnitude of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has not been lost on Putrajaya. The ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) involving 12 nations...
Ford to shift Fiesta production to Thailand
US carmaker Ford will shift the entire production of its Fiesta compact car from its plants in Mexico and India to Thailand by 2016...
Look closer: Is there blood on your shirt?
The April 24 collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh that left more than 1,000 dead has highlighted the question again: Why are costs and profits in the fast-fashion industry so extremely distorted?
China pushes rival pact to TPP
China and 15 other Asia-Pacific nations will kick off the first round of free trade talks in May to create one of the world’s...
Vietnam eager to deepen TPP relations
Vietnam has said it wants to accelerate the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which will help bolstering bilateral trade and economic ties between...
Business speed: How does technology change?
Fundamental technological shifts redefining business in the 21st century were the focus of the Ideas Economy: Innovation Forum 2013 held in Berkeley, California.
Benefits and challenges of a Brunei TPP membership
How can small Brunei benefit from the planned US-led global trade partnership? One of the challenges the TPP faces is preventing the dilution of its original economic goals for the sake of expansion.
Singapore website targets Latin America
Dropmysite, a Singaporean website established in 2011 that gives free service to users to backup websites, databases and email accounts, recently signed a partnership...
ASEAN’s sweet accents
The annals of history, have, as it seems, predisposed some countries in Asia to have a greatest vernacular ability in the world’s business language. Justin Calderon listened carefully to the accents on Tagalog, Thai and Bahasa Indonesia
$20 trillion Asia trade bloc planned
An alternative to US President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 16-member Regional Comprehensive Partnership (RCEP) is the newest concept for an economic union between...
Obama pushes Trans-Pacific Partnership
US president Barack Obama, who is embarking on a Southeast Asia round trip in the coming week, will be pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...