The European Commission’s confrontation with Chinese EVs is a high-stakes geopolitical maneuver full of risks, as it could ignite a trade war. The anti-subsidy probe tests EU geopolitical resolve amid internal divisions and economic challenges. Higher tariffs on Chinese EVs risk political and climate repercussions, with China likely to retaliate. T...
Published in Vietnamese Journal of Legal Sciences
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which went into effect on January 1, 2022, is regarded by key trading partners as part of efforts to promote deep integration of the global supply chain following the COVID-19 pandemic. The absence of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in the RCEP is a significant obstacle, wh...
Published in Vietnamese Journal of Legal Sciences
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) seeks to align ASEAN with global “green growth” trends by developing an integrated eco-labelling standard for products traded among its member countries. This article presents a comparative study using a normative legal research method that draws lessons from other regional trade organizations, such as the Europea...
The paper assesses the moderating role of firm age in the relationship between financial constraints, as measured by the KZ index, and the WW index on three alternative measures of firm growth (Asset growth, ROA, and ROE) in the ASEAN–6 region. This study employs a sample of ASEAN–6 listed firms over the period 2009–2019 using Fixed Effects and the...
Published in Frontiers in Communication
Southeast Asian nations are vulnerable to fake news and disinformation due to the lack of digital literacy, growing dependence upon online platforms, and the non-democratic nature of ASEAN member states. ASEAN has agreed in the past years to decide, at the normative level, the importance of countering fake news and disinformation. However, it lacks...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
As human populations grow, societal demands led to aquatic ecosystems degradation and vulnerabilities. In this paper, we identified several drivers to the impairment of water bodies in ASEAN, which are partly influenced by socio-economic activities of the nations, the morphometry, and watershed of the selected lake basins. There are barriers in man...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has grappled with the persistent threat of transnational crime (TC) in Southeast Asia since its establishment in 1967. The rising tide of globalization and technological advancement has only exacerbated the problem, leading to the evolution and organization of various criminal activities. As ASEAN ...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Circular Economy (CE) is a sustainable development paradigm that promotes resource efficiency, closed-loop systems, and waste reduction to minimize environmental impacts while fostering economic growth; its popularity is rising at a global scale since the negative effects of linear consumption patterns become more apparent. In this direction, the A...
Published in Frontiers in Nutrition
Nutrition policies are critical frameworks for tackling the triple burden of malnutrition, including undernutrition (i.e., stunting and wasting), overweight, and hidden hunger (i.e., micronutrient deficiencies). We examined (1) the alignment of recent National Nutrition Strategies and Action Plans (NNS) in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam with recent gl...
A normative study of a regional organisation exercising governance using Global governance as a guiding theory. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is one of the biggest regional organisations, often compared to the European Union (EU) in terms of efficacy and non-legal binding approach, as well as the non-conformity of western liberal ...
