Bangkok, 22 September 2011 The Senior Officials of Social Welfare and Development from ASEAN Member States concluded on 22 September 2011 their 7th Meeting in Bangkok which had been convened for two days. During the Meeting, the Senior Officials discussed the strategies to implement the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprint, giving special attention to the [...]
Chengdu, China, 22 September 2011 Approximately 100 representatives from the governments, businesses and academia of ASEAN Member States, China, Japan, Republic of Korea and officials from the ASEAN Secretariat attended the 9th East Asia Forum in Chengdu on Friday. This year's Forum, themed "Accelerating Regional Integration: Internal Growth Engine of East Asia", also covered extensive [...]
Jerudong, Brunei Darussalam, 21 September 2011 The first gathering, since the adoption of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity, of ASEAN Ministers responsible for energy successfully concluded in Jerudong yesterday. It included a series of events on policy discussion, regulatory options, and business opportunities, all of which are crucial to the realisation of the ASEAN [...]
Phnom Penh, 21 September 2011 ASEAN has made significant achievements, but the regional grouping must jointly address domestic and external challenges, while it maintains its march towards the target of an ASEAN Community in 2015, said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the official opening of the 32nd ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly General Assembly in Phnom [...]
New York, USA, 20 September 2011 In commemoration of the 5th Anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, the UN Secretary-General's Symposium on International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation was organised by the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force Office (CTITF) in partnership with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and the constituent CTITF entities yesterday, at [...]
Jakarta, 19 September 2011 Approximately 10,000 shoppers from Jakarta feasted on a wide spread of food from ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners in Kelapa Gading over the weekend. The first ASEAN Plus Culinary Festival 2011 was jointly organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia – Indonesia is the Chair of ASEAN this [...]