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ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus Eight – the ASEAN-centered Asia Pacific Security Structure
There is a promising new addition to the Asia-Pacific’s security architecture – the ASEAN Defence Ministers-Plus Eight (ADMM+8) meeting. This new arrangement does more than simply adding to the existing “alphabet soup” of institutions. The ADMM-Plus Eight brings to the table American and Russian defence ministers alongside their ASEAN+6 counterparts and aims to deal with [...] -
ASEAN foreign ministers meet in Hanoi
ASEAN foreign ministers met in Hanoi on Tuesday July 20, ahead of the 17th ASEAN Regional Forum on Friday. One of the main issues discussed was the Korean Peninsula tension following the sinking of a South Korean warship on March 26. The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting spokesman Tran Ngoc An said at a news briefing [...] -
China now world’s top energy user
China over took the USA last year to become the world’s largest energy user, the International Energy Agency revealed yesterday. With this new status, China is expected to be more influential in the global energy markets in determining prices and how it is used. Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, said: “In the 2000, the US [...] -
Oil spill in Yellow sea after pipeline explosion
Two pipelines at an oil storage belonging to the China National Petroleum Corp, China’s biggest oil company, exploded in Dalian’s Xingang Harbour in Liaoning province on Friday July 16. The blast, which happened after a Libyan-flagged tanker discharged its load at the port, triggered a spill of approximately 1,500 tonnes of crude oil into the [...] -
US to Join East Asia Summit
US President Barack Obama will attend the 2011 East Asia Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, say reports quoting informed sources in Washington. The decision is a significant one as the US had not previously engaged at the highest level with ASEAN-centric regional processes, though its leaders have attended APEC, which has a different membership and mandate. The East [...] -
Malaysia to hang three Indonesian drug traffickers
On July 18, the Malaysian High Court sentenced three Indonesian men to death for drug trafficking. Amri Alamsyah, aged 42; Iskandar Ibrahim, aged 33; and Muham¬madiah Hassan, aged 31; all from Aceh, were arrested in April 2005, and found guilty of trafficking 1,858.6 grams of cannabis in front of a motorcycle shop on Jalan Kampung [...] -
ASEAN Foreign Ministers meet in Hanoi for ARF and AMM
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) are scheduled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 19-23 July 2010. The current focus areas of the meetings are the sinking of the South Korean warship, regional architecture and non-proliferation. Foreign ministers of ASEAN shared “deep concern” at the sinking of a South Korean warship, [...]
