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 [...]
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 [...]
JAKARTA, 12 December 2013 - The ASEAN Secretariat together with the French and German Embassies in Indonesia held the ASEAN-Europe Economic Dialogue from 10-11 December 2013 at the ASEAN Secretariat in the Indonesian capital. The session on “the importance of regional integration and trade in addressing global economic challenges: ASEAN & EU perspectives” brought together [...]
JAKARTA, 11 December 2013 –Eleven-year-old pupils from an Indonesian school came to the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) this morning and handed-over their cash donation for typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines. A Filipino staff of ASEC received the equivalent of USD1,200 raised by pupils from Sekolah Global Mandiri in Jakarta. “It is so kind of you [...]
JAKARTA, 11 December 2013 – The majority of businesses perceived ASEAN economic integration to present more of an opportunity rather than a threat. In addition, investor interest in the ASEAN region remains strong and more businesses are seeing ASEAN as one region in making their investment decisions. These are some of the key findings from [...]
