Plenary Session One: Facilitating Foreign Investment and Trade in Asia Pacific Plenary Session Speech by H.E. Ong Keng Yong Friday, February 18, 2005 10 Steps to More Trade and Investment 1. Trade and Investment has always been part and parcel of ASEAN's economic development. The fact is, ASEAN is one of the most open trading [...]
Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you all to the ASEAN Secretariat and I thank KADIN, the Indonesian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, for organising this event. Two days ago, the ASEAN Heads of Government and Premier Zhu Rongji of China received the report of the ASEAN-China Experts Group. The report is entitled "Forging Closer [...]
Serge Berthier- Last year, the President of Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Sato mentioned to me that ADB will provide the logistic to set up the so-called "surveillance mechanism" that will track the hot money going in and out of ASEAN countries and believed to be the main cause of the current financial turmoil. Is [...]
THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE ASEAN BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL (ABAC) 10 APRIL 2003, ASEAN SECRETARIAT, JAKARTA Distinguished Members of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning. On behalf of ASEAN Member Countries and my colleagues in the ASEAN Secretariat, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of [...]
The Secretary-General of ASEAN at the Launch of the Philip Kotler Center for ASEAN Marketing The ASEAN Secretariat, 24 November 2005 Good morning ladies and gentlemen, The Customer Is King 1. In today's highly competitive global business environment the customer is king. To succeed, companies must: do business the way their customers want it, be [...]
THE CHINESE BUSINESS LEADERS SUMMIT GLOBAL ENTREPOLIS @ SINGAPORE 2004 SINGAPORE, 11 OCTOBER 2004 PROSPERING ASEAN-CHINA RELATIONS 1. First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to this event. Indeed, it gives me great pleasure to address the distinguished participants of this forum. 2. This event is dedicated to the [...]
