Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 Asean builders to reap gains from $323-billion spree With at least $323 billion in infrastructure spending in the pipeline in Southeast Asia and potentially more expected […]
Philippines threatens Sanofi with legal action over dengue vaccine The Philippines plans to sue Sanofi over its dengue fever vaccine in response to the French drugmaker’s warning that the drug could lead to severe infections […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 Workplace Automation: Skills Development Key For Developing Countries (HD video) In 2017 economists Carl Frey and Michael Osborne concluded that 47 per cent of jobs in […]
Duterte to order mass arrest of communists His officials said the terrorist classification of any group requires court approval, but President Duterte is already preparing for a roundup of communist peace consultants. — Philstar No […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 Build sustainable cities, Asean urged Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu urged member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to build sustainable cities and urban […]
‘997 children got sick after vaccination’ Nearly a thousand children in public schools had fallen ill over a five-month period after receiving their first dose of the controversial dengue vaccine Dengvaxia, The STAR learned yesterday. […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 ASEAN needs to move to minilateralism To save the principle of ASEAN centrality, the regional body should transcend its consensus-based decision-making and embrace minilateral arrangements on […]
Info-sharing platform to ease doing business The Department of Finance (DOF) along with the Departments of Information Technology (DICT) and of Interior and Local Government (DILG) led the launch of a digital platform that would […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 Asean ignores civil society… again Malacañang’s spokesperson has termed Asean’s commemoration of its 50th year a “tremendous success,” but based it mainly on the absence of […]
US to export $3 B worth of agricultural goods to PH in 2018 As it sees its total agricultural exports going up to US$140 billion in 2018, the United States is expecting the Philippines to […]
Asean Morning News Compiled by Kongleaphy Keam @kongleaphy1 Former ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan dies aged 68 Former ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan died aged 68 on Thursday (Nov 30). Dr Surin, who was also a […]
US, PH begin FTA discussions The Philippines and the United States have begun Wednesday discussions on negotiating and concluding a possible bilateral free trade agreement, according to Ceferino Rodolfo, undersecretary of the Department of Trade […]