Monthly Archives: July 2013

The delegation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat paid a working visit to the ASEAN Secretariat earlier this week to exchange information on and experience in regional integration and  explore the possibility of forging closer relations between ASEAN and SADC. Led by Eng. Mr. Joao Samuel Caholo, Deputy Executive Secretary for Regional Cooperation [...]

Myanmar’s president took another step in the country’s reform movement, making a statement on the status of political prisoners while on a visit to London. Thein Sein’s promise is the highlight of the latest edition of “ASEAN Today.” Also in the program is a report on Thailand’s trendy car show, saving the reefs in Cambodia [...]

The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) concluded its Seventh Meeting convened on 22-24 July 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Meeting was participated by ASEAN Member States (AMS) and the main event was the finalisation of the draft Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against [...]

How to make Statistics understandable, and meaningful to the people – that is the key objective of the “Training on Statistical Data Dissemination”, which is scheduled to take place 29-31 July 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And it will be professionals teaching each other. Statisticians will learn to communicate their numbers in media style reports, [...]

H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, welcomed the visit by H.E. Mr. Zhang Yan, Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation, yesterday at the ASEAN Secretariat.  SG Minh expressed the readiness of the ASEAN Secretariat, as a full member of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and Board of Governors of the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), to [...]