Monthly Archives: August 2012

Over 135 policy makers from ASEAN Member States and representatives of UN Agencies discussed issues of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) acceleration and multi-sectoral collaboration at the two-day ASEAN Multi-Sectoral Workshop on MDGs: Accelerating the Achievement of MDGs and Priorities beyond 2015 last week in Yangon, Myanmar. The Workshop was hosted by the Government of the [...]

China’s deployment of a permanent mission to ASEAN reflects the importance of relations with the Southeast Asian group, said the country’s first resident Ambassador to ASEAN. Madam Yang Xiuping is China’s third Ambassador to the group, but the first to be stationed here in Jakarta. “I’m honoured to be the first resident Ambassador of China [...]