Setting Goals

“The goal of ASEAN economic integration is to become a single production base where goods can be manufactured anywhere and distributed efficiently to anywhere within the region. ASEAN needs to work towards the goal of freer movement of labour and capital, but in reality, integration and the free flow of resources will only be gradual,step … Read more

Big steps ahead

“Regional community-building will top the agenda. Malaysia will preside over the organization during a critical time this year in which it is expected to form an ASEAN Community (AC) by December 2015. While ASEAN elites have long been skeptical that the deadline will be met, Malaysia will help formulate the “post-2015” ten-year roadmap for this … Read more

ASEAN on a rise

“Being dedicated with the plans of actions and protocols, ASEAN will move closer towards its goal of building the ASEAN Community, characterized by greater political and security interaction and engagement, a single market and production base, with free flow of goods, services, capital investment and skilled labour and a caring society, focusing on social development, … Read more