ASEAN

  • Nov 4, 2021
  • 2 min read

Asia-Pacific trade pact needs time to take off fully

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is now set to enter into force in January, but not for all signatories

Asia
  • Oct 20, 2021
  • 7 min read

ASEAN aims to widen focus beyond Myanmar at summits

The bloc has decided not to invite Myanmar’s junta chief to key upcoming events

ASEAN
  • Oct 14, 2021
  • 2 min read

ASEAN move on Myanmar would be mainly symbolic

The bloc will reportedly meet to discuss excluding Myanmar’s junta chief from this month’s ASEAN summits

ASEAN
  • Sep 17, 2021
  • 2 min read

ASEAN will be uneasy about AUKUS

Indonesia, a key player in the regional bloc, has expressed wariness over the Canberra-London-Washington pact

ASEAN
  • Aug 5, 2021
  • 2 min read

ASEAN’s Myanmar envoy will face obstruction

The regional bloc has appointed a long-promised special envoy to Myanmar

ASEAN
  • Jun 8, 2021
  • 2 min read

Myanmar fallout will not derail ASEAN-China ties

The situation in post-coup Myanmar was discussed at yesterday’s Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

ASEAN
  • Jun 2, 2021
  • 2 min read

ASEAN’s Myanmar plan is foundering

The regional bloc’s members appear divided over how to follow through on a plan to ease post-coup tensions in Myanmar

ASEAN
  • May 4, 2021
  • 7 min read

Civil-military dynamic will fuel Myanmar’s crisis

The junta says it will consider measures proposed by ASEAN to ease post-coup tensions once it ensures “stability”

Myanmar