Southeast Asia

• Canada needs to keep up its presence in Southeast Asia: Trudeau

  At the ASEAN Summit, Trudeau announced that Canada is upgrading its diplomatic missions in Vientiane, Laos, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia to full embassies.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2024
  
• Canada in a ‘bit of a bind’ amid chill in relations with India, China: experts 

  Next month, Trade Minister Mary Ng is leading a trade mission to Malaysia and Vietnam, with another planned later this year for Indonesia and the Philippines. 

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2024
  
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• Canada’s plan to deepen ties with Southeast Asia raises human rights concerns

  Ottawa is negotiating trade deals with Southeast Asian countries, but Canada's silence on human rights issues in countries it plans to partner with has advocates concerned.

  Canada

  Dec 10, 2022
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• Trudeau embarks on Southeast Asia trip to deepen Indo-Pacific ties

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is en route to Southeast Asia for a series of summits aimed at deepening Canada's presence in the Indo-Pacific.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2022
• Southeast Asia struggles to contain Delta variant amid record COVID-19 surges

  Governments in Southeast Asia have been tightening measures, hoping targeted lockdowns will act as circuit-breakers in arresting dramatic spikes after cases started rising in May.

  World

  Jul 9, 2021
• U.S. postpones ASEAN leaders summit due to coronavirus

  U.S. President Donald Trump had invited leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to meet in Las Vegas after he did not attend a summit with the group in Bangkok in November.

  World

  Feb 28, 2020
• Cambodian opposition leader stopped from going home to challenge Hun Sen

  When Sam Rainsy tried to take a Thai Airways flight to Bangkok from Paris, where he lives in exile, Thailand's flag carrier told him ``they had received from very high up the instruction to not allow me to board,'' he said.

  World

  Nov 7, 2019
• Outland Denim making jeans differently, employing survivors of human trafficking

  Australian-born James Bartle is the founding CEO of a denim brand that’s making jeans differently by giving young girls, victim's of human trafficking, employment opportunities in developing nations.

  Oct 22, 2019
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• Agri-food strengths on display as Sask. minister travels to Southeast Asia

  The minister will use this mission to promote the new trade opportunities with Saskatchewan and Canada opened up by the recently signed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  Canada

  Mar 7, 2019
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• These exploding ants burst open their abdomens to splatter enemies with toxic goo

  These ants split their stomachs open when confronting enemy insects, dousing them in toxic goo while perishing in the act themselves.

  Science

  Apr 20, 2018