SlashAsia » Cambodia http://www.slashasia.com Business and Political News from China and Southeast Asia Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:28:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Japan to sign on to International Renewable Energy Agency http://www.slashasia.com/2009-06-22/country/cambodia/japan-to-sign-on-to-international-renewable-energy-agency http://www.slashasia.com/2009-06-22/country/cambodia/japan-to-sign-on-to-international-renewable-energy-agency#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:06:04 +0000 Alexandra Stevenson http://www.slashasia.com/?p=461 The Japanese government has announced its intentions to follow the US lead and become a member of the new intergovernmental agency IRENA.  The body, set up earlier this year to facilitate research and promotion of renewable energy, has 100 states on its board to date. Other regional signatory states include the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Cambodia and now Japan. The first IRENA meeting will convene next week in Egypt. Japan’s Yomuiri  has reported the Foreign Minister saying the body could be key to promoting renewable energy around the globe.

Japan to join international renewable energy body, The Daily Yomuiri

Cambodia becomes 94th member of International Renewable Energy Agency, Xinhua News

]]> http://www.slashasia.com/2009-06-22/country/cambodia/japan-to-sign-on-to-international-renewable-energy-agency/feed Asia: ASEAN countries to demonstrate self-sufficiency and open trade http://www.slashasia.com/2009-02-22/business/asia-asean-countries-to-demonstrate-self-sufficiency-and-open-trade http://www.slashasia.com/2009-02-22/business/asia-asean-countries-to-demonstrate-self-sufficiency-and-open-trade#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:35:08 +0000 Alexandra Stevenson http://www.slashasia.com/?p=172 Finance ministers in the Asia region are holding bilateral talks in the lead up the 14th Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit, in a show of greater strategic cooperation to prevent trade protectionism. Malaysia held bilateral talks with Indonesian and Chinese finance ministers this weekend, to promote trade. Officials from Japan, China and Korea met Saturday afternoon to discuss counter-measures to economic slowdown. Finance chiefs from Asean countries and Japan, China and South Korea will gather at the summit on February 27 in Thailand to discuss concrete and collective response to financial woes.

Asean will speak out against using trade protectionism as a way to cope with the current financial crisis, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has said. Mr. Abhisit has encouraged Asean countries to seek aid from other regions, acknowledging that the IMF ” simply does not have the resources, money and time to look into the various problems in different regions.” The Asia Development Bank will participate in the summit as Asean members determine the details of a foreign reserve fund pool agreed upon last May. Contributing countries will discuss management and size of fund.

Links and sources:

Asean to resist protectionism, Straits Times

China, Indonesia and China trade talks, Malaysia Star

Asea foreign reserve pool, Xinhua

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