We’re celebrating the Lunar New Year this month. We’ll hear from China later, but in this issue we’re surveying activity in Asia’s Pacific Rim countries. We start with two overviews…

R. Ian McEwin, Feb 13, 2013 All countries in Southeast Asia are hierarchical and authoritarian to some degree, which has implications for competition. All countries are marked by considerable inequalities…

Simone Warwick, Feb 13, 2013 It is a good time to reflect on competition outreach and capacity building activities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”). The start of…

Deswin Nur, Feb 13, 2013 Indonesia may not be one of the famous countries in the world. Tourists mostly know Bali (one of the islands in Indonesia) rather than the…

Mark Berry, Feb 13, 2013 The New Zealand Commerce Commission is an independent statutory body with responsibility for enforcing competition law. The Commerce Act 1986 prohibits anticompetitive behavior and structures…

Wee Guan Teo, Feb 12, 2013 Singapore has consistently been ranked among the world’s most competitive economies. Since it was founded, Singapore has relied on a set of sound economic…

Trinh Anh Tuan, Feb 13, 2013 Beginning in the early 1990s, Vietnam started to open up its economy, promote external trade, and has received FDI capital. Its admission into ASEAN…

Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Cyril Shroff, Feb 13, 2013 The CCI has initiated various competition advocacy programs with a special focus on cartelization. The leniency program is being actively publicized in…

May Fong Cheong, Feb 13, 2013 The preceding two years have been instrumental for Malaysia in the area of competition law. After many years of germination, the Fair Trade Practices…