In this webinar, Dr Lee Siu Ming discusses the current state of the manufacturing product segment and value chain in Penang’s medical devices industry, its evolvement over time, different sub-segments in the industry, and linkages among different related industries.
This webinar launches a new book by the Asian Development Bank entitled Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market and Technology over 50 Years. The webinar examines critical elements behind the success of Asia and the Pacific’s economic development.
This article was published by Financial Times on 17 August 2020.
Malaysia’s labour market has seen a slightly rosier outlook in June. But broad indicators – under-utilisation of employment insurance and large companies under strain – signal that the country is not out of the woods yet.
This article was published The Phnom Penh Post on 6 August 2020.
This podcast was broadcast by BFM 89.9 on 6 August 2020.
Despite fears that it might be cancelled due to the coronavirus, the multilateral RIMPAC maritime exercise will kick off today off the coast of Hawaii. The two-week exercise, which will run to 31 August, will see a smaller contingent from Southeast Asia due to operational restrictions surrounding the pandemic.
This article was published on 14 August 2020.
In this webinar, the first of an ongoing series, Dr. San Win and Ms. Daovinh Souphonphacdy provided updates on the key features of Myanmar’s and Lao PDR’s 2020 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets respectively, the progress of their NDCs and the long-term low emissions development strategies, as well as opportunities and challenges in the implementation of the NDCs moving forward.
Global Value Chains in ASEAN: With Pandemic Comes Opportunity
The ensuing Sino-US trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the moving of global value chains out of China into other regional states such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. ASEAN countries should not squander the historic opportunity to grab a bigger market share in such chains.