Monthly Archives: December 2014

JAKARTA, 31 December 2014 – Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh expressed his deep concern over the recent tragedy of Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501. In a letter addressed to Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno L. P. Marsudi, Secretary-General Minh expressed confidence in the on-going search and rescue operations led by the Government of Indonesia, [...]

MANILA, 17 December 2014 – As ASEAN approaches the crucial 2015 milestone of realising the ASEAN Community, the ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC) has convened the ASEAN Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Networking Forum on 16–17 December in Manila to discuss PPP as an innovative financing mechanism to realise the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC). The [...]

MANILA, 16 December 2014 – Twenty-two Master Trainers and 20 Master Assessors celebrated their graduation day this week after weeks of comprehensive training programmes of Master Trainers and Master Assessors for Food and Beverages (F&B) Service Division conducted by the William Angliss Institute at the Diamond Hotel Philippines. This training is part of the programme [...]

BANGKOK, 16 December 2014 - The ASEAN Plus Three Health Ministers gathered for the Special Meeting on Ebola Preparedness and Response yesterday. They discussed the ways forward of strengthening regional mechanisms and increasing national capacity to prevent the Ebola as well as other emerging infectious diseases pandemics. The opening ceremony was graced by H.E. General [...]

BUSAN, 12 December 2014 - WE, the Heads of States/Government of Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) and the Republic of Korea, gathered on 12 December 2014 in Busan, ROK, to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of ASEAN-ROK Dialogue Relations, under the theme "Building Trust, Bringing Happiness". RECALLING with satisfaction that ASEAN-ROK relations [...]

JAKARTA, 11 December 2014 – The Permanent Representative of Myanmar to ASEAN, Ambassador Min Lwin, handed over his duties and responsibilities as Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR) to the Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN, Ambassador Hasnudin Hamzah, at the ASEAN Secretariat on 8 December. Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le [...]