MAY 14: Asian community welcomes top Tory
THE Asian community played host to the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party when he made a whirlwind visit to Bolton.Outspoken Steven Norris stopped off to lend his support to Bolton South East Conservative candidate Haroon Rashid who is battling against Labour's Brian Iddon and Liberal Democrat Frank Harasiwka for the seat.He gave a speech at Bolton Muslim Girls' School to a gathering of male members of the Muslim community before enjoying a walk-about in...
Jiji:
East Asian Community Should Be Limited to East Asian Countries: Analyst
By Mitsuru Obe Tokyo, July 7 (Jiji Press)--Membership in a future East Asian Community should be limited to East Asian countries, said a former senior official of Malaysia, the host country for the first East Asian summit to be held in December."If you build an East Asian Community, it must be East Asians who build the community, like the Europeans, who built the European Community," Mohamed Jawhar Hassan, director-general of the Institute of Strategic and...
New Straits Times (Malaysia):
`Asean must get its own house in order' ..BY: By Ranjini Thangaraju ..LD: SERI KEMBANGAN, Mon. - Asean can support
the process of building an "East Asian Community" by "getting its own house in order" and
transforming Asean+3 co-operation into full-fledge
SERI KEMBANGAN, Mon. - Asean can support the process of building an "East Asian Community" by "getting its own house in order" and transforming Asean+3 co-operation into full-fledged collaboration, Centre for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia co-founder Jusuf Wanandi said today.In his paper on "Challenges to the East Asian Community and the Moves Forward", Jusuf said Asean, in co-operation with South Korea,...
The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri:
insights into the world/E. Asian community won't hurt U.S.
insights into the world/E. Asian community won't hurt U.S. interests Takashi Shiraishi Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun Yomiuri This December, Malaysia will host an East Asia summit attended by leaders These anxieties are understandable.To avoid any misconceptions, however, it is important to remember that the concept of "community" envisaged in the East Asian community is markedly different from that in the European Union.The EU was...
The Jakarta Post:
Challenges of building an East Asian community
The idea of an East Asian community is now being seriously pursued following the decision at the ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and Korea) Summit in Vientiane at the end of 2004 to hold the first ever East Asian Summit in Kuala Lumpur at the end of 2005.However, there are still big hurdles to overcome, and a step-by-step approach should be taken. First, the region has seen the establishment of many regional institutions at the government and non-governmental level, starting with the Pacific Basin...