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PETALING JAYA, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- ASEAN must strengthen its global leadership on sustainability to further advance the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 agenda which is expected to be finalised during Malaysia’s ASEAN chairmanship this year.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today held a meeting with world-renowned economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's participation in multiple unilateral trade agreements could attract more investors to the country and benefit other ASEAN nations, an economic analyst said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- ASEAN should pursue a wide industrial policy amid the rising protectionism and tariff walls set off by the intensifying United States (US) and China rivalry.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- ASEAN exchanges should continue developing tools that make it easier for foreign investors to understand and invest in the region despite varying market conditions across countries, said Bursa Malaysia chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- As the 2025 ASEAN chair Malaysia will focus on leveraging the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest trade agreement now in force.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- In the era of the United States-China decoupling and deglobalisation, ASEAN’s fierce neutrality and non-alignment could be the only, truly precious factor that could ‘save’ many of the world’s critical supply chains.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- The global decoupling presents a major disruption but also offers a significant opportunity for ASEAN, positioning it as a key player in a fragmented global economy.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) — ASEAN needs a unified strategy to boost the region’s electric vehicle (EV) industry, said Yinson Holdings Bhd chief executive officer Lim Chern Yuan.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) — Resolving ASEAN’s issues, whether it is about Myanmar or the South China Sea, should be a team sport and not solely rest on the 10-member bloc’s chair.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- Deeper trade agreements and domestic reforms are needed to build economic resilience in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asian Pacific regions, especially during extreme change and uncertainty.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysia welcomes direct investment from Indonesian companies and encourages strategic collaborations such as mergers between companies owned by Malaysian and Indonesian entities, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.