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The 35th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting or AMEM 35 held a meeting this week and tackled, among others, the potential energy resource for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said that they envision dynamic and robust collaboration within ASEAN and dialogue partners as well as other relevant international agencies. Ensuring access to and adequate supply of resilient and sustainable energy in the ASEAN region is the main agenda of the […]
NANNING CITY, South China (CCTV) — Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on Tuesday once again guaranteed his country’s readiness to cooperate with Association of Southeast Asian Nations in boosting regional development and prosperity. Zhang made the remarks at the start of the 14th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The vice premier also highlighted substantial collaborative achievements in various fields over the past few […]
(Eagle News) — Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Hon. Steven Ciobo MP, officially launched the Australia-ASEAN Chamber of Commerce (AustCham ASEAN) in the Philippines at the Marriott Hotel Manila on September 9, 2017. AustCham ASEAN is a network of over 3,000 corporate members that will highlight commercial opportunities and improve coordination of Australian business interests with the registered Australian Chambers and business councils from across ASEAN as its membership base, making it […]
(Eagle News) – Vietnam and the Philippines have a very outstanding relationship, one which will even be stronger, according to Vietnamese ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Ly Quoc Tuan. During a recent visit to Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, the Vietnamese ambassador shared the unique relationship of Philippines and Vietnam – two member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations whose peoples had made a lot of sacrifices to achieve independence. The relationship between Vietnam and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Pentagon is planning to conduct more regular patrols in the South China Sea — as many as two to three a month — to assert freedom of navigation in disputed waters claimed by China, the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper said the aim is to create a more consistent posture to counter China’s maritime claims, rather than a more ad hoc approach favored during Barack Obama’s administration. US […]
HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Vietnam’s most powerful leader has called for greater unity among Southeast Asian states at a time the country has appeared increasingly isolated in challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. Making the first visit by a Vietnamese communist party chief to Indonesia, Nguyen Phu Trong said in a speech televised at home on Wednesday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needed to be unified in resolving territorial […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ZRfNpM3uA&feature=youtu.be Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said China commits itself to working with the Philippines and other Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries for regional peace and stability in the South China Sea. Hua emphasized that China has consistently committed itself to resolving related disputes peacefully with related sovereign states through negotiations and consultations. “A few individuals in the Philippines may have ulterior motives in making the groundless accusation of China. They wanted nothing […]
Statement of National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chief and Socio Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia: “With our country growing at 6.5 percent in the second quarter of 2017, I am pleased to inform you that we remain as one of the best-performing economies in Asia. We are well on track to meeting our full-year target growth of 6.5 to 7.5 percent. We have overtaken Vietnam’s 6.2 percent growth and Indonesia’s 5.0 percent […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China is expanding artificial islands in disputed South China Sea areas despite saying it stopped two years ago, according to a security think tank that released satellite images it said showed the land reclamation. Beijing claims most of the sea and has been turning reefs in the Spratly and Paracel chains into islands, installing military aircraft and missile systems on them — an activity the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) […]
The Philippines and the Russian Federation will be speeding up negotiations on a number of bilateral agreements that are expected to boost Manila’s ongoing campaign against terrorism, drug trafficking and criminality in the country. This was disclosed by Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano following his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sides of the recent ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center. “Minister Lavrov and I […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declared August of every year as ASEAN Month through the issuance of the Proclamation No. 282 which Malacanang released on Wednesday, August 8, the exact date of the ASEAN’s 50th anniversary. Malacañang said the President signed the proclamation on July 31. “Proclamation No. 282 declared August of every year as ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Month, in a bid to further promote and heighten public […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines should be proud of its successful hosting of the week-long 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, as well as of ASEAN’s 50th anniversary celebration in Manila. This was according to Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano who expressed his gratitude for the country’s successful hosting of the week-long 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in a press briefing held on August 8 in Manila. “First of all, I think […]
