During her visit to Vietnam in May 2023, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala praised Vietnam’s impressive economic growth and trade amid the global headwinds prevalent in the world economy. She ...

APEC is becoming increasingly significant in addressing contemporary trade and investment issues, with a strong focus on regional economic integration. Despite challenges like US tariffs and rising ...

The connection between economic integration and political security has long attracted attention. Integration through intensive trade and investment relations has led to greater interdependence and ...

From the COVID-19 pandemic to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple crises in recent years have disrupted supply chains. Incidents of economic coercion and effects of sanctions upset trade and ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Asean Economic Community (AEC) Strategic Plan 2026-2030 is set to drive deeper integration and create prosperity across Southeast Asian economies while strengthening the bloc's ...

SINGAPORE -- An Asia-Pacific agreement to create the world's largest trade bloc entered into force on Saturday, ushering in a new phase of regional economic integration.

While acknowledging the need to seek a new form of integration that goes beyond trade liberalization, Asia experts held out differing views as to whether China, the potent power, poses threat or ...

Integration is a mutual, gradual and multi-faceted process, with inter-related legal, socio-economic and cultural dimensions. Integration programmes require coordination, collaboration, and secure ...

In the prevalent era of globalisation, a country’s political standing is defined in terms of its economic growth. Likewise, regions integrated economically are well-positioned globally. The example of ...

Reaffirming that voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement are the traditional durable solutions, and that all remain viable and important responses to refugee situations; reiterating ...