Asia Pacific Trade Agreement

Companies across APAC working to keep whistleblower policies up to date

Many companies across the Asia Pacific region have stepped up their efforts to keep their whistleblower programmes and policies up to date, and there is more that can be done, according to a senior lawyer of a global law firm. Companies are recognising that they must adopt best practices in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space, said Mini vandePol, Head of Baker McKenzie's Asia Pacific Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Group. On ESG adoption in India, she said that at the moment, it is a little bit of a "mixed bag". "This is partly because it is being talked about mainly by the regulators like Sebi... I think there is a good understanding of the environmental part... It's the S and the G that are less understood," she said. Meanwhile, the capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has mandated the top 1,000 listed companies by market capitalisation to make filings as per the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) ...

PE deals in Asia-Pacific fall in 2022 as US investors drop China for India

Investors favour technology companies in India and Southeast Asia, says one analyst

Prasar Bharati ADG elected vice prez of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union

Prasar Bharati Additional Director General Sunil has been unanimously elected as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Sunil has been elected for a three year term. Prasar Bharati had hosted the 59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings in New Delhi last month. The ABU is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasters from Asia and Pacific regions. Its General Assembly was attended by over 400 representatives of broadcasting organisations from more than 57 countries.

Asia-Pacific leaders to tackle trade, sustainability in Pacific-Rim summit

The war in Ukraine, great power rivalry Asia, inflation and food and energy shortages are on the agenda as leaders prepare for the third back-to-back gathering this week, a Pacific-Rim summit taking place in a heavily guarded venue in Thailand's capital. Leaders from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will meet formally in closed-door sessions on Friday and Saturday. For some, it will be at least the third such opportunity for face-to-face talks in the past two weeks, though the US is represented in Bangkok by Vice President Kamala Harris, who is attending instead of President Joe Biden. APEC's official mission is to promote regional economic integration. Most of the business conducted happens on the summit's sidelines in meetings such as a planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The two Asian powers have a history of tense relations, a legacy of Japan's World War II aggression compounded by territorial ...

Raymond appoints Coca-Cola veteran Atul Singh to lead the Group

Singh has worked at Coca-Cola for about two decades at several senior leadership positions and concluded his journey there as chairman, Asia Pacific and spearheaded its businesses across 25 countries

Diplomatic push in Asia to counter China paying dividends: US Official

US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet told The Associated Press that 13 nations representing 40 per cent of the world's economy had signed on to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

China to hold Asia Pacific Ministers meet tomorrow to discuss BRI projects

China has convened a key ministerial conference of Asia Pacific countries on Wednesday to discuss cooperation of its BRI

Govt approves exchange of tariff concessions under Asia Pacific Trade Agreement

Other amendments to incorporate the sectoral rule of origin to the agreement were also approved