Vietnam Expects Economic Boom from EU Trade Deal

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Vietnam Expects Economic Boom from EU Trade Deal

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A trade deal with the European Union expected to be ratified this year will accelerate growth of Vietnam’s export-reliant economy without help from the U.S. market, analysts say. The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement signed in 2015 should speed annual economic growth by half a percent to more than 7 percent by 2019, […]

In Sign of Closer Sino-Philippine Ties, US Naval Exercises Skip a Disputed Sea

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In Sign of Closer Sino-Philippine Ties, US Naval Exercises Skip a Disputed Sea

TAIPEI — Annual exercises held by the Philippine and U.S. navies are skipping the South China Sea this year as the Southeast Asian nation’s leader takes another step toward a stronger political and economic relationship with China, the sea’s most ambitious claimant. The “Balikatan” military exercises May 8-19 include a disaster drill off Aurora province on […]