JAKARTA, 19 May 2015 – ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General for Socio-Cultural Community, H.E. Alicia Dela Rosa Bala and Australia's first resident Ambassador to ASEAN, H.E. Simon Merrifield, today signed Amendment No. 6 to the Cooperation Arrangement between ASEAN and the Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the ASEAN [...]
JAKARTA, 18 May 2015 - ASEAN Senior Officials on Culture and the Arts met at the ASEAN Secretariat last week, 12-14 May, to set policies and strategies on promoting the culture and art sector of the ASEAN region. They also discussed how to celebrate the launching of ASEAN Community by the end of 2015, as [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 May 2015 – The ASEAN SME Showcase and Conference (ASSC) 2015 will be held on 26-28 May at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is a special event to commemorate the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 and the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in [...]
BRUSSELS, 8 May 2015 - "Disaster management is a key concern of the ASEAN region where natural disasters are a common occurrence," said ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General Alicia Bala. To help address this concern, high-level ASEAN emergency management representatives visited Paris and Brussels this week, from 2-8 May. "The visit aims to gather information about the [...]
JAKARTA, 8 May 2015 - H.E. Suh Jeong In, the new Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to ASEAN, today presented his Letter of Credence to H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, at the ASEAN Secretariat. H.E. Suh is the second Ambassador of ROK accredited to ASEAN since the ROK established its Mission [...]
JAKARTA, 8 May 2015 – ASEAN and the United States today agreed to accelerate their cooperation to wrap-up the implementation of their current five-year action plan, which will expire at the end of this year. This commitment was made at the 6th ASEAN-U.S. Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) Meeting held today at the ASEAN Secretariat in [...]
