Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra hopes Thailand's political crisis will be defused by calling for national elections in early February. That tops the latest edition of "ASEAN Today." Onravee Tangmeesang of Thailand's Nation Channel co-hosts from Bangkok with Dalton Tanonaka of Indonesia's Metro TV in Jakarta. They also report on Southeast Asia's supply of fish to [...]
JOINT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT The Nineteenth ASEAN Transport Ministers (ATM) Meeting was held on 19 December 2013 in Pakse City, Champasak Province, Lao PDR. H.E. Mr. Sommad Pholsena, Minister of Public Works and Transport of Lao PDR, chaired the Meeting, and H.E. Mr. Nyan Htun Aung, Union Minister for Transport of Myanmar was the Vice-Chairperson. The [...]
JOINT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT The Twelfth ASEAN and China Transport Ministers Meeting (ATM+China) was held on 19 December 2013 in Pakse City, Champasak Province, Lao PDR. The Meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Sommad Pholsena, Minister of Public Works and Transport of Lao PDR and, H.E. Mr. Yang Chuantang, Minister of Transport of the People’s Republic [...]
JOINT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT The 11th ASEAN and Japan Transport Ministers Meeting (ATM+Japan) was held in Pakse City, Champasak Province, Lao PDR on 19 December 2013. The Meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Sommad Pholsena, Minister of Public Works and Transport of Lao PDR and, H.E. Mr. Yaichi Nakahara, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and [...]
PARIS, 20 December 2013 - The signing ceremony of the Framework Agreement for Cooperation between ASEAN and UNESCO was held on 17 December at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. Signing the document on behalf of ASEAN was H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, and for UNESCO was H.E. Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General [...]
JAKARTA, 17 December 2013 - On the sidelines of his official visit to Indonesia, the Speaker of Myanmar’s Parliament Rt. Hon. Thura U Shwe Mann met with high-ranking officials of ASEAN Secretariat at the Association’s headquarter in Jakarta. He was accompanied by a group of parliamentarians from Myanmar. Deputy Secretary-General Nyan Lynn of ASEAN for [...]
