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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Asia and the Pacific region.

Maldives, Hong Kong to establish free trade agreements
9-May-2016     Avas
Negotiations are underway to establish a free trade agreement between Maldives and Hong Kong.
ASEAN cautiously speeds steps toward financial integration
5-Apr-2016     Nikkei Asian Review
ASEAN finance officials have adopted a new timeline for integrating financial services across the regional bloc, aiming to tear down market barriers more quickly.
Harmonising IP laws across ASEAN: Is it possible?
4-Mar-2016     Today Online
The economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community leads to many challenges in the harmonisation of trade-related laws across ASEAN’s 10 member nations.
Obama to push trade agenda at summit with Southeast Asian nations
15-Feb-2016     The Japan Times
A summit between Southeast Asian leaders and President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliver any big economic prizes, but will allow the American side to press the advantages of joining a Pacific trade pact that doesn’t include China.
AEC not so sweet a deal: sugar exporter
2-Feb-2016     Khmer Times
The sweet promise that the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) would pave the way for a single market among the 10-member bloc of more than 600 million people at the end of last year has so far excluded sugar exports from Cambodia.
No fanfare as AEC era begins
7-Jan-2016     TTR weekly
Southeast Asian nations officially launched an EU-inspired economic bloc aimed at boosting the region’s trading clout and attracting more investment. But analysts said a true single market was still a long way off.
AEC ‘ignoring human rights’
7-Jan-2016     The Jakarta Post
Upholding human rights and democratic values is not in the interests of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), since member states are driven only by market-oriented goals.
India’s membership of APEC will be win-win for both
30-Nov-2015     New Daily Times
India’s inclusion in APEC is hoped to further integrate the Indian economy into the Asia-Pacific economic milieu as well as boost its ‘Act East Policy’.
ASEAN | SE Asia creates economic community, but challenges remain
23-Nov-2015     Macau Daily Times
Thirteen years after mooting the idea, Southeast Asian leaders formally created a unified economic community.
Beijing-backed free-trade plan fails to advance at Apec
21-Nov-2015     South China Morning Post
South China Sea disputes a hot topic of discussion but declaration at the end of the Asia-Pacific leaders summit makes no reference to the issues