Through international trade, a country with other countries can interact and cooperate in the export import of goods services. Indonesia's export-import trade transactions trading partner have undergone structural changes. This change was caused by start industrialization process early 1990s. study conducted to find out how its partners ASEAN (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines...

Nowadays, the Web has become the main gateway for organisations as well as making information accessible through the World Wide Web. Previous usability studies have focused on the development and user-centered design of websites. The location of objects through the use of a mental model is able to help users to navigate the Web and access information easily. The rationale for developing a menta...

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

In the past decade, the auto industries of developing countries have been transformed by trade and investment liberalisation policies and the global expansion of the auto industry. The protective instruments (tariffs, quantitative restrictions, investment controls, etc.) that once shielded most developing countries auto industries from international competition have been partially dismantled. H...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) designated Western Pacific region as one of great diversity. It contains the most populous country, China with its 1.2 billion people, and many small Pacific island countries, some with populations of less 10 000. The diversity also extends to politics, sociocultural life, and the economies o...

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...

Received: January 25, 2017 Revised: April 12, 2017 Accepted: June 04, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently launched its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which could potentially revolutionize the economic output in the region through free movement of goods, people, and capital across borders. At this stage, several trade barriers still exist whi...