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With ASEAN companies increasingly seeking overseas listings, Hong Kong, one of the most renowned international financial centres in the world, has emerged as a popular locale for achieving such aims. More

Hong Kong has started proceedings to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade bloc that commenced on 1 January 2022, comprising 15 countries including China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and the ASEAN states of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. More

Abstract: HKTDC Research, in collaboration with UOB Hong Kong, conducted a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews with enterprises in the GBA in the third quarter of 2021. The survey found that close to 60% of all GBA-based enterprises surveyed plan to expand into the ASEAN. Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand are the most popular ASEAN trading partners and the lead investment destinations for GBA-based enterprises. More

The ASEAN Secretariat announced on 2 November that it has received instruments of ratification for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) from Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. More