Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Southeast Asia’s strongmen are looking forward to elections in 2018 Voters in Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia are all expected to go to the polls this year. […]
Duterte Rejects Term Extension, Pushes for Federal Philippines Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has rejected calls from his allies to extend his six-year term and to cancel elections next year, while supporting moves to shift to […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov US revamps travel warning system, ranks countries The United States unveiled a way to warn its citizens about the dangers of foreign travel on Wednesday (Jan […]
Philippines reaches deal with Japan to fix troubled metro The Philippines and Japan have reached a deal to rehabilitate and maintain Manila’s Metro Rail Transit (MRT), which has been plagued by reliability and capacity problems. […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Mekong leaders fail to raise environmental concerns at summit in Phnom Penh ENVIRONMENTAL conservationists expressed concern over the negative impact of development projects in the Mekong […]
PH, ADB seal $680-M loan packagesTwo loan packages amounting to a total of $680 million were signed by the Philippine government and the Asian Development Bank on Wednesday. — The Manila Times PHL seen growing […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov ASEAN economies ill-prepared for old age The demographic dividend that helped drive ASEAN’s strong economic growth from at least the 1990s is coming to an end. […]
More Filipinos see better lives, economy – SWS survey More Filipinos foresee better lives and an improved economy in the next 12 months, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. — Philstar Nomura: […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Southeast Asian Giants Team Up to Resist IS Southeast Asia’s two biggest countries, the Philippines and Indonesia, are joining forces to stop Islamic State sympathizers from […]
The Philippines is a diabetes ‘hotspot’ The Philippines is considered one of the diabetes “hot spots” in the Western Pacific region, where the disease is already reaching epidemic proportions. — Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippines readies […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Sreypov Men @MenSreypov Australia must embrace ASEAN, but we’ve got listening to do Australia must move beyond our obsession with the US versus China debate and to once again […]
MM expressway Phase 1 completed by 2020 Citra Intercity Tollways Inc. (CITI), the joint venture between the Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC) and San Miguel Holding Corp. is set to start the construction of Metro […]