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East ASEAN ministers sign transport agreements - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Transport ministers from the four-country East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA) signed agreements on sea, air and land traffic and security in a meeting here Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza said he and the other ministers pledged to find ways to improve security to protect the traveling public.

“We are going to offer a safer travel,” Mendoza said, adding among matters threshed in the second EAGA transport ministers meeting were issues concerning air cargo and security.

6 months after the historic meeting of the ASEAN leaders in Cebu, the foreign ministers meet again in Manila.

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When the five-day 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) opens at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on Sunday (July 29), the regional grouping will be only 11 days shy of its 40th anniversary on August 8 this year.

From the original five, ASEAN now has 10 members, comprising all the countries in Southeast Asia. Although the member countries have different political and ideological orientations, ASEAN has one unifying objective: to promote peace and stability in the region.

ASEAN was established on Aug. 8, 1967 at the height of the Cold War by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand during their historic meeting in Bangkok where they signed the ASEAN Declaration, now known as the Bangkok Declaration.

Shanghai-Cebu flights seen boosting Visayas tourism - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The introduction of regular chartered flights between Cebu and Shanghai will open up the huge Chinese market to the local tourism industry.

Shanghai tourism attaché Gerard Panga called the China Southern Airlines’ inaugural Shanghai-Cebu flight, which landed in Cebu early Saturday morning, a breakthrough for Cebu’s tourism industry.

Shanghai, along with Beijing and Guangzhou, is among the three most economically developed regions in China, and they are considered major sources of outbound tourists.