ARF = Asean Relief Force?
The United States calls for a joint relief force as a concrete way of strengthening cooperation in the Asean Regional Forum.
THE United
Author: Derwin Pereira
Asean ‘has room for both US and China’
MORE China does not mean less US. That was the message Mr Christopher Hill, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian
Absent Rice presents opportunity for China
Beijing likely to gain most from top US official’s decision to skip Asean meeting.
CHINA is winning by default.
As the Bush administration becomes
Schwab sizes up the mood in America towards free trade, and the likelihood of a US-Asean FTA
ASIA INTERVIEW
WHAT has the US-Singapore FTA accomplished so far for both sides and what more needs to be done?
The Singapore-US FTA has
Washington’s most tireless trade advocate
ASIA INTERVIEW
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab criss-crosses the globe on her mission to promote free trade.
SHE is perhaps the most intrepid traveller
US trade with S’pore grows faster than rest of the world
Trade Representative Susan Schwab says in ST interview that FTA has had major benefits.
SINGAPORE-US trade has grown significantly since a free trade
No-show by US leaders hints at shift in focus of White House
CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO SKIP ASEAN FORUM
Asean on the backburner as Iraq, Middle East take centrestage in final months of Bush presidency
UNITED States-Asean
Bush postpones meeting with Asean leaders
US PRESIDENT George W. Bush has postponed a summit with Asean leaders, scheduled for September in Singapore, to a “future date’’, the
Hillary leads the Democrats, Republicans fight for an edge
2008 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Rudy Giuliani is now leading Republican race for 2008.
The implosion in the McCain campaign has sparked fresh interest in
Race for party nomination will be over by February
AMERICANS will know who will hold the Democrat and Republican presidential tickets in the dead of winter next year.
By next February, the
China’s covert military build-up ‘sows distrust’
Pentagon’s top Asia expert says US is forced to assume the worst.
CHINA’S secrecy about its military build-up is sowing distrust in Washington
S’pore ‘one of the few in Asia taking terrorism seriously’
SINGAPORE is one of the few countries in Asia that are dealing “very aggressively” with the threat of terrorism.
Mr Richard Lawless, the