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Mar 5, 2017

(Still) in Search of a Genuine ASEAN Community

BANGKOK (Reporting ASEAN) - It is now possible to go by car in any weather from Yangon (the commercial capital of Myanmar and formerly known as Rangoon) to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam’s commercial capital, formerly known as Saigon) by the East-West Economic Corridor and its southern extensions. The 2,000-kilometre plus route connects the five mainland Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand, of which only the last is a founding member of ASEAN.

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(Still) in Search of a Genuine ASEAN Community
Feb 26, 2017

Any takers for ASEAN news?

BANGKOK, Feb 24 (Reporting ASEAN) – If ASEAN issues were a consumer product for sale, buyers wouldn’t exactly be queuing up for it – not even with the sales pitch that it is a brand with 50 years of history to fall back on this year.

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Any takers for ASEAN news?
Jan 3, 2017

ASEAN 2017 bid rules skewed to favor one company?

When the government bidded out the P2.8 billion events management contract for the 50th anniversary of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations to be held in the Philippines this year, it tailor-made the criteria so that a favored company would bag the deal, a company excluded from the bidding said.

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ASEAN 2017 bid rules skewed to favor one company?
May 2, 2016

Reintegration: The forgotten side of migration in ASEAN

By TESS BACALLA MARILYN Sakiwat, 55, looked forward to coming home to the Philippines for good after years of working overseas, making up for lost time with her now grown-up children, and becoming a productive member of her community. This, after 26 years of toiling away in Hong Kong, hundreds of miles away from her simple

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Reintegration: The forgotten side of migration in ASEAN
Apr 18, 2016

After 10 years of talking, ASEAN and activists still far apart

By MIA GOMEZ and JOHANNA SON BANGKOK – It’s been 10 years since civil society groups in ASEAN started having annual interactions with ASEAN leaders, including face-to-face meetings at summits. But beyond making news headlines, how effective have these been in influencing ASEAN’s work or its member states’ policies? How can engagement with ASEAN be

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After 10 years of talking, ASEAN and activists still far apart
Mar 29, 2016

What is ASEAN?

Ask average Filipinos what the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is, and most would give answers that vary from vague to downright wrong. They confuse ASEAN with “Asia,” even APEC or the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and hardly know its significance. ASEAN is turning 50 next year, but experts interviewed for this video feature say

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What is ASEAN?
Aug 31, 2015

ASEAN urged to stop enforced disappearances

  By JAKE SORIANO SOMBATH Somphone is easily recognized because of his white hair. The white is clearly visible in the grainy CCTV footage that recorded the last time he was seen alive. More than the said physical attribute, Sombath is a distinguished man, not just in his native country Laos. A civil society leader

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ASEAN urged to stop enforced disappearances
May 18, 2015

ASEAN and Suu Kyi’s deafening silence on Rohingya plight

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS ADRIFT in the Andaman Sea are hundreds of thousands of people in the verge of death due to hunger, thirst and victims of human cruelty. They are the Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic group mainly living in Myanmar. It is estimated that they number some 800,000 and comprise 80 to 90

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ASEAN and Suu Kyi’s deafening silence on Rohingya plight
Apr 27, 2015

No Asean-China COC until China completes Spratlys military bases

Fiery Cross before and during the reclamation By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE standard press statement of Malacañang and foreign affairs officials prior to the President’s attendance in the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is for the Philippines to push for the adoption of the Code of Conduct in the South China

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No Asean-China COC until China completes Spratlys military bases
May 28, 2014

What’s ASEAN to do as tension rises in Paracels?

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS While we continue to be engrossed with Napolist (she has submitted an expanded list naming 120 lawmakers as alleged beneficiaries of her largesse including her contributions to their election campaign), things are heating up in the South China Sea between China and Vietnam that could destabilize Southeast Asia. News reports yesterday

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What’s ASEAN to do as tension rises in Paracels?