Jaishankar to visit three ASEAN countries next week
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be on an official visit to the ASEAN countries of Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia from 23-27 March.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be on an official visit to the ASEAN countries of Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia from 23-27 March.
Recent improvements in air connectivity and impending rail connectivity will go a long way in giving a boost to the development of the area. Arunachal Pradesh covers the largest geographical space among the eight sisters of the North-east.
About the changes underway in India, he said the country did not give the importance that it should have to manufacturing and technology development in the past. That started to change in 2014 with the Modi Government and has gathered steam over a decade. It is supported by vast improvements in infrastructure, innovation, education and skilling.
Two days after the mass resignation of ministers involved in a fundraising scandal, on 13-14 December 2023, an event that caused Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s popularity rating to plummet below 20 per cent and cause political turmoil
Significantly, the leaders also agreed to upgrade the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement ~ FTA 3.0 ~ that will now include cooperation in the spheres of digital economy, green economy and supply chains.
A sense of drift in what was once a cohesive grouping, the Association of South East Asian States Nations (Asean), was discernible in Phnom Penh last week as Cambodia hosted the Asean summit marking its 55th anniversary. The summit itself went off smoothly enough. Compared to the last time Cambodia held the ASEAN chair in 2012, there was a welcome absence of rancour.
The maiden India-ASEAN defence ministers’ meeting was held on Tuesday at Siem Reap, Cambodia to commemorate the 30th anniversary of India-ASEAN relations.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar represented India at the summit. The ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Indonesia Research and Innovation Expo (INA-RIE) is jointly hosting the four-day ASEAN-India Start-up festival from 27th October to 30th October 2022. The festival has four main events startup exhibitions; seminars and talk shows; G2G meetings and B2B meetings, as well as startup pitch battles.
A common currency needs robust financial systems and markets, as well as strong institutional support. Not all ASEAN countries have such institutions to deal with the threats to the financial sector, which have increased in recent years. Then there is the lack of control over national monetary and fiscal policies, restricting the governments’ sovereignty and autonomy.
