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- India turns its back on the world’s biggest trade pact
New Delhi has backed away from joining a massive multinational trade pact as the other 15 members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have agreed on major points of the deal.Nov 4, 2019 15:29Business News - Anyone here? Trump snubs ASEAN-US summit, 7 out of 10 leaders skip it in protestBy dispatching lower-ranked American officials to the ASEAN-US meeting instead of visiting it personally, President Donald Trump touched a nerve among Asian leaders who responded in kind.Nov 4, 2019 10:05World News
- Break IT & software monopoly of ‘few companies’ or risk losing ‘right for future’ – Russian PM to ASEAN leadersRussia wants the demonopolization of “a few corporations” that dominate the IT market, because countries without their own hi-tech solutions risk losing the “right for future,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told an ASEAN summit.Nov 3, 2019 13:58World News
- ‘Gold is more stable’: Malaysia needles US with proposal for pan-Asian bullion-backed currencyMalaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad has floated the idea of creating a gold-backed common trading currency for all of East Asia, slamming regional currency exchange as “manipulative” and criticizing the US’s heavy-handed foreign policy.May 31, 2019 03:40Business News
- Killing the dollar softly: China lobbies ASEAN on yuan use to expand economic influenceThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its East Asian partners consider adding Chinese and Japanese currencies to their $240 billion currency swap safety net, business journal Nikkei Asian Review reported.Apr 26, 2019 10:35Business News
- Russia and Singapore ink $1bn worth of investment deals at ASEAN SummitRussia’s sovereign wealth fund has signed agreements with companies from Singapore on investment projects in Russia totaling more than $1 billion. The contracts were sealed at the Russia-ASEAN Summit in Singapore.Nov 14, 2018 12:43Business News
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