Opinion

ASEAN needs to have a clearer direction of how to engage with the private sector and to align investment from non-ASEAN countries with development plans at both sub-region and regional level. Some believe it could take 10-15 years for the AEC’s potential to be achieved . . .

ASEAN is about safety in numbers – about speaking with a collective voice that can be heard on the global stage . . .

INDIVIDUAL Governments are beginning to face up to the challenge of maintaining control as more business activities go online . . . 

BUSINESS has every reason to be wary, even anxious in an uncertain world . . .

THE TPP is a geopolitical play more-so than a trade deal. It is Washington telling Beijing it still has influence in Asia . . .

HAVING achieved an economic miracle in its first 50 years, will Singapore suffer a mundane descent into mediocrity over its next half century . . .

IT is way past time that Thai governments – elected or not – effectively addressed core problems that have been ignored for so long . . .

THE MERS outbreak has hurt, but the real concern should perhaps be on Seoul’s slowing economy . . . 

IF a week-long cloister of Trade Ministers from 12 countries in July can close off a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), signing of a US-EU pact, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), may not be far behind . . .

GREATER regional co-operation will be needed to protect and preserve the wealth of Southeast Asia’s seas. Any way you look at it, Thailand’s seafood industry is facing some tough times . . .