JAKARTA, 21 March 2014 - At the invitation of the Honourable Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign of Affairs of Australia; H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, visited Australia on 16-19 March. The visit is part of the commemorative activities to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the ASEAN-Australia Dialogue Relations. During his trip, Secretary-General Minh [...]
BALI, 20 March 2014 – Officials from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar attended a special meeting on accreditation in Bali, Indonesia on 17 March before the 26th Meeting of ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) Working Group 2 on Conformity Assessment. The meeting was supported by PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), the National Metrology Institute [...]
JAKARTA, 19 March 2014 – Officials from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV) marked the end of their one-year stint at the ASEAN Secretariat as Attachment Officers (AO) from government ministries related to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the ASEAN Socio-cultural Community (ASCC). H.E. Koichi Aiboshi, Ambassador of Japan to ASEAN; H.E. [...]
YOGYAKARTA, 18 March 2014-The “ASEAN Guidelines on Improvement of Rural Living Condition Through One Village One Product (OVOP) Movement” was launched at the end of an ASEAN Workshop last week in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The OVOP Movement started at Oita prefecture of Japan in 1979 and became one of the successful regional economic programmes due to [...]
JAKARTA, 14 March 2014 - “The Argentine Republic looks at ASEAN as an important and successful regional organisation and is highly interested in working with ASEAN in every relevant areas of cooperation,” said H.E. Ricardo Luis Bocalandro, Ambassador of Argentine Republic to ASEAN during the presentation of his Letter of Credence to H.E. Le Luong [...]
13 March 2014 – Today’s signing of an agreement between the Union of Myanmar and Australian governments marks an important new start for anti-trafficking initiatives in the region. This signing marks a milestone in implementing the new Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) – an Australian government-funded program that started in August 2013, [...]
