Asia-Pacific Foreign Investment Brief
The FDI, Trade, and Economic Development Community

By Michael DiPaula-Coyle - Central to any #digitaltrade agenda should be three core principles: 1. Enable the Free Flow of Data 2....

Further strengthening of Singapore's position as SE Asia's tech hub today with the news from Tencent; Tencent Holdings Ltd. has picked...

Organizations across all industries—from automotive, consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals to transportation, electronics, and oil and...

The COVID-19-induced economic recessions worldwide have put downward pressure on cross-border investments. FDIs in emerging and...

Former Maersk executive Thomas Bagge has been chief executive and statutory director of Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) for...

ASEAN economic ministers are committed to strengthening regional supply chains and improve trade digitalisation to spur trade and...

Business leaders, academics and policymakers alike have emphasized over time the challenges of internationalization, and the need for...

CAIRO – 25 August 2020: Egypt will establish an electronic system for the first time to track goods until the final release stage, and to...

Designing ‘human-centred’ trade facilitation solutions: How does it work? By Craig Atkinson for Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)...

Insight perspectives by ALEXANDER DE VOET, Manager, Global Consulting Lead, Accenture Border Services In my previous blog, I looked at...

Interesting perspectives by World Economic Forum on how technology is transforming global trade. Digitalization is the key to unlocking...

Dubai Customs has launched Siyaj, an AI-based integrated control system to protect and secure the country’s ports and trade gateways,...

Southeast Asia's sizeable and growing population, steadily expanding economy as well as increasing technological adoption present many...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a calamity for global trade. UNCTAD forecasts that merchandise trade will fall by 20% in 2020 and by 27% during...

With a new alternative to Maersk-IBM Tradelens in place the pace of tradetech digitalisation is speeding up. Chinese state-run shipping...

Since 1947, states of the world have been working to liberalize international trade by reducing tariffs, under the General Agreement on...

New Comesa plan set to ease movement of goods Kenya is among 15 African States that have agreed to pilot a new project seeking to ease...

Digitalisation of trade facilitation is now fundamental and no longer a distant plan -Congratulations to Dubai Customs under the...

Over the past few months, Customs authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean have had to work hard and think outside the box in...

Recommendations by GTDW Speaker Ziyang Fan Head of Digital Trade, World Economic Forum & Mike Gallaher The COVID-19 pandemic has...