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CCS & THE ASEAN
EXPERTS GROUP ON
COMPETITION (“AEGC”)
6TH ASEAN COMPETITION
CONFERENCE (“ACC”) IN
BANGKOK, THAILAND
27-28 July 2016
CCS Assistant Chief Executive
(Legal & Enforcement Division),
Mr. Lee Cheow Han and Assistant
Director (Legal Division), Mr. Jaime
Pang attended the 6th ACC hosted
by the Office of Trade Competition
Commission. Mr. Lee presented on
“Detecting and Preventing Cartels
– Effective Approaches” and shared
CCS’s cartel detection methods.
JAPAN-ASEAN INTEGRATION
FUND PROGRAM IN HO CHI
MINH, VIETNAM
27-29 March 2017
CCS Director (Business &
Economics), Mr. Herbert Fung
was a presenter at the Sub-
Regional Workshop “Investigative
Techniques on Merger Review”,
organised as part of the Japan-
ASEAN Integration Fund Program.
CCS Deputy Director (Legal),
Ms. Stephanie Panayi also
participated as a presenter.
7TH ASEAN COMPETITION
CONFERENCE IN SELANGOR,
MALAYSIA
8-9 March 2017
On Day 1 of the conference, CCS
Chief Executive, Mr. Toh Han Li
moderated the panel discussion
on “ASEAN’s Young Competition
Agencies – the Tough Get Going”.
At the panel “Competition and
Innovation –Too Soon, Too Fast”
on Day 2, he spoke about how
competition agencies can stay
relevant in the digital economy.
19TH MEETING OF THE AEGC
IN YANGON, MYANMAR
3-7 April 2017
At the 19th Meeting of the ASEAN
Experts Group on Competition
(“AEGC”), CCS played an active
role in discussing plans for several
new initiatives that it would lead
under the ASEAN Competition
Action Plan. The chairmanship of
the AEGC for 2017 was handed
over from Laos to Myanmar. In
2018, Singapore will assume the
AEGC chairmanship.
VISIT FROM NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM
COMMISSION
9-11 May 2016
CCS hosted a visit from two
representatives of China’s
National Development and
Reform Commission (“NDRC”):
Deputy Director-General (“DDG”),
Mdm. Li Qing and Director of
the Price Supervision and Anti-
Monopoly Bureau (“Bureau”), Mr.
Zhu Kai. DDG Li and Mr. Zhu also
participated in CCS’s Singapore
Business Breakfast Dialogue.
VISITS TO CCS
CHINA’S NDRC DIRECTOR
GENERAL VISITS CCS
1 March 2017
NDRC Director General of the
Bureau, Mr. Zhang Handong
visited CCS for the first time by
invitation of CCS Chief Executive,
Mr. Toh Han Li. The two agencies
discussed the enforcement of
fair competition and recent
competition developments in
China and Singapore.
CCS HOSTS HONG KONG
COMPETITION COMMISSION
(“HKCC”)
26 August 2016
HKCC Chief Economist, Mr. Dennis
Beling conducted an auto-fuel
study workshop at CCS. Mr. Beling
and the CCS retail petrol case
team also exchanged views on
similar issues faced in the retail
auto-fuel market in Hong Kong
and Singapore.
AEGC WORKSHOP ON
COMPETITION ECONOMICS
IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
7-9 February 2017
CCS Director (Policy & Markets),
Dr. Tan Hi Lin and Competition
Analyst, Ms. Germaine Goh
attended the AEGC Workshop
on Competition Economics.
During the workshop, CCS gave
a keynote address outlining the
importance of economics in the
implementation of competition law.
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