The ASEAN Economic Community: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

Building the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges and Opportunities for Myanmar

In recent years, ASEAN has been accelerating its efforts to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. As a member of ASEAN, Myanmar has a mandate to implement a number of policy reforms, as agreed to in the AEC Blueprint. Key reforms include trade liberalization and facilitation in accordance with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), investment liberalization and facilitation...

The ASEAN economic community and medical qualification

BACKGROUND In the regional movement toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), medical professions including physicians can be qualified to practice medicine in another country. Ensuring comparable, excellent medical qualification systems is crucial but the availability and analysis of relevant information has been lacking. OBJECTIVE This study had the following aims: 1) to comparatively analyze ...

Prospects and Challenges of the Development of ASEAN Exchanges

The ASEAN Political Security Community: Challenges and Prospect

It has almost been a rule, whenever ASEAN Leaders gather in the resort town of Bali, Indonesia, there will be a major development to the regional organisation to watch out for. This year, the 19th ASEAN Summit will be held in Bali again. The clues for the hype this year are well reflected in Indonesia’s Chairmanship theme for ASEAN this year “ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations”, w...

Infancy and autism: progress, prospects, and challenges.

We integrate converging evidence from a variety of research areas in typical and atypical development to motivate a developmental framework for understanding the emergence of autism in infancy and to propose future directions for a recent area of research focusing on infant siblings of children with autism. Explaining the cognitive profile in autism is best achieved through tracing the process ...