ASEAN News

Singapore- Energy Market Authority (EMA) has announced that Singapore will import electricity from Peninsular Malaysia under a two-year trial run. According to EMA, the trial aims to “assess and refine the technical and regulatory frameworks” for importing electricity. It further added that Singapore decided to change the way it produces and uses energy to meet the country’s climate change commitments …

ASEAN – Rabobank predicts that the Asean region is on it’s way to become the decade’s hungriest dairy consumers. According to the report posted by Rabobank, the current 12.9 billion litre annual milk deficit across the ASEAN. The region consumes 12.9 billion litre annual milk and is looking to expand up to 19 billion litres by the year 2030. The …

TOKYO – Japan and India are now looking to expand cooperation with with ASEAN nations after their recent move to cooperate with each other in various tech and critical information infrastructure areas. In the Asean region, both country are particularly looking at the Indo-Pacific cybersecurity. The cybersecurity cooperation and collaboration activities between ASEAN and Japan was one of the major …

SINGAPORE – Hong Kong and Singapore announced on Friday that it has agrred to set up a travel bubble that will allow residents to travel between the two countries as long as they passed the Covid-19 screening. Under the agreement, residents of both cities wanting to travel must test negative for the Covid-19 virus and will be flying only on …

HANOI – Vietnam and Japan have formally agreed to implement a new policy that will allow certain groups from one country to enter another without undergoing the usual mandatory 14-day quarantine. According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new policy will be taking effect starting November 1. after an agreement was reached during the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide …

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Deng Xijun with ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi and ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General Kung Phoak takes part in the virtual opening of the ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship (ACYLS) 2020 with the aim of enhancing people-to-people exchanges between the two partners. According to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo the ASEAN-China Young Leaders …

NANNING – The recent China-Asean education exhibition held in capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, has embraced the steadily increasing demand for smart educational equipment. The event set up seven showrooms with great variety of educational equipment for all ages as well as providing seminars and training services to participants. President of the Guangxi Educational Equipment Industry …

MANILA – The US Navy deployed has deployed their Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group to resume maritime security operations in the region. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group comprises of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) aircraft carrier with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 and Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54). SS Halsey (DDG 97) and USS John …

MANILA – Beijing and Manila announced that they have reached an agreement on the joint exploration of oil and gas resources in the South China Sea. The announcement came after President Rodrigo Duterte lifted the ban on oil and gas exploration in the contested West Philippine Sea area. According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China …

JAKARTA – Indonesia on Thursday (Oct 15) with 4,411 new coronavirus infections reported, The country has taken over Philippines as South-east Asia’s new pandemic hotspot. The world’s fourth most populous nation’s recorded total of 349,160 with 12,268 deaths, also the highest in the South East Region. Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that Jakarta will start a two-week transitional period in …