ASEM

Asia and Europe have noted the need to forge closer cooperation in the areas of energy, food security, climate change and water resources management, as well as disaster management and mitigation. This was one of the outcomes of the 9th ASEM Summit which ended in Vientiane yesterday after adopting the Vientiane Declaration on Strengthening Partnership for Peace and Development and the Chair's Statement of the ASEM9.
Ler mais: ASEM leaders vow to pursue closer cooperation (Vientiane Times, 7 de novembro de 2012).

the ex-leader's legal adviser Noppadon Pattama said yesterday.

Ler mais: Thaksin invited to Myanmar 'again' : Noppadon (The Nation, 9 de novembro de 2012).

TAILNDIA-EUA-CHINA
US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit Thailand late this month to reaffirm their respective regional strategies after the political shake-ups in both Washington and Beijing, government and diplomatic sources said yesterday.
Ler mais: Kingdom to host Obama, Wen (The Nation, 8 de novembro de 2012).

ASEAN-CHINA
Asean and Chinese leaders will ink two agreements facilitating trade growth between the two sides under the Asean-China Free-Trade Agree-ment (FTA) at their bilateral summit this month.
Ler mais: Asean, China intend to strengthen FTA (The Nation, 5 de novembro de 2012).

VIETNAME-ASEM
Maintaining peace should be the priority of every country, so all disputes should be settled by peaceful measures when possible, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday during a discussion of regional issues under the framework of the ninth Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM).
Ler mais: PM promotes peace at ASEM summit (Vit Nam News, 7 de novembro de 2012).

PAQUISTO
During his inaugural address to the 6th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference, President Asif Ali Zardari said terrorism can only be defeated if hearts and minds of the people are won over.
Ler mais: Need to win hearts and minds to defeat terrorism: Zardari (Dawn, 4 de novembro de 2012).

MALSIA-ASEM
Leaders attending the Asia-Europe Summit have agreed to adopt Asean's concept paper on the Global Movement of Moderates. This is seen as a success for Malaysia which initiated the concept to not only resolve but also avoid conflicts.
Ler mais: Asem to adopt Aseans concept paper on moderates (The Star, 7 de novembro de 2012).

NEPAL
Former king Gyanendra Shah on Tuesday said lack of foresight and myopic decisions have put the country in a state of disarray. In the absence of a central base to run the country the entire state mechanism is bound to undergo disintegration, he said, advising all to remain vigilant of improvident policies and decisions. Shah was addressing a religious function at Harpur VDC in Nawalparasi.
Ler mais: All is not well, says former king Shah (The Kathmandu Post, 6 de novembro de 2012).

FILIPINAS I
Despite failing its target of one million overseas absentee voters for the 2013 midterm elections, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday the number overseas voters has tripled since absentee balloting for Filipinos abroad was introduced in 2004. As of October 30, the DFA said the total number of overseas absentee voting (OAV) registrants reached 950,216, of which 360,386 were new registrants.
Ler mais: Over 950,000 overseas Filipinos register for 2013 polls (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 7 de novembro de 2012).

MYANMAR
Myanmar President Thein Sein has invited former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to visit his country again to deliver a lecture on economic development, notably on the eradication of poverty and the development of rural areas,

FILIPINAS II
Elated by a preliminary peace deal with Moro rebels, European and Asian leaders have committed to move the

peace forward in Mindanao and develop the region, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday night. Ler mais: Aquino: EU, Asian leaders pledged continuous support for Mindanao peace process (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 7 de novembro de 2012).

CHINA III
Ecology, fight against corruption placed high on Party's agenda. Unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, combat corruption and lose no time in deepening reform, including political reform - these are among the goals Party chief Hu Jintao set at a landmark congress, held every five years, in Beijing.
Ler mais: Hu sets out path for future (China Daily, 9 de novembro de 2012).

CHINA I
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded a four-day plenum on Sunday, approving a political report to be unveiled at the Party's national congress slated for Thursday. It also en-dorsed earlier decisions to expel two disgraced senior members from the CPC. At the end of the seventh and the last plenum of the 17th Central Committee, Party leaders also approved proposed amendments to the CPC Constitution and agreed that "favorable grounds" have been laid and "full preparations" made for the crucial 18th National Congress of the CPC.
Ler mais: Reports ready for congresso (China Daily, 5 de novembro de 2012).

COREIA DO SUL
Independent candidate Ahn Cheol-soo on Thursday pledged to establish a top-level hotline with North Korea and institute a conflict settlement apparatus, as part of efforts to improve the inter-Korean ties. Announcing his policy on North Korea, security and foreign affairs, Ahn also said that he would seek to establish a four-way forum that involve the two Koreas, the U.S. and China, to discuss peninsular peace and help resume the stalled multilateral denuclearization talks.
Ler mais: Ahn vows to set up N.K. hotline (The Korea Herald, 8 de novembro de 2012).

CHINA II
Tackling corruption is high on the agenda of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a congress spokesman said on Wednesday. Cai Mingzhao set out the importance of the anti-graft campaign, following the Bo Xilai and Liu Zhijun cases, at a news conference in response to a question from China Daily. "The problems of Bo and Liu are serious corruption cases among leading Party cadres, and the lessons are profound," Cai said.
Ler mais: Tackling graft is 'priority (China Daily, 8 de novembro de 2011).

JAPO-CHINA
Market potential too important for companies to ignore, envoy says Japanese companies are not pulling out of the Chinese market despite tension over the Diaoyu Islands, a Japanese envoy said.
Ler mais: Japanese investors 'will not exit China ' (China Daily, 7 de novembro de 2012).

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