JAKARTA, 30 November 2016 – The ASEAN Secretariat hosted today a tribute and recognition ceremony for ASEAN athletes who competed at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Medals of appreciation were awarded to twelve Olympians and Paralympians who attended the event held in Jakarta. Olympians and paralympians from ASEAN Member States did the region [...]
PHNOM PENH, 29 November 2016 - The 2nd Meeting of the Steering Committee of the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Centre (ARMAC) was held on 21 November at the ARMAC’s Headquarters, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Upon full operationalisation, ARMAC will serve as a center of excellence to assist interested ASEAN Member States in research, knowledge sharing [...]
JAKARTA, 29 November 2016 — ASEAN and Switzerland yesterday convened the Inaugural ASEAN-Switzerland Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee (AS-JSCC) Meeting to mark the launch of their formal partnership. This meeting formalises ASEAN-Switzerland partnership following the conferment of the status of an ASEAN Sectoral Dialogue Partner on Switzerland during the 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting on 24 July [...]
JAKARTA, 28 November 2016 – To effectively implement the recently adopted Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025, ASEAN needs a robust monitoring and evaluation system. The report Enhancing ASEAN Connectivity Monitoring and Evaluation released today at the ASEAN Secretariat assessed the progress and achievements made in the MPAC 2010, drew out the policy implications, [...]
JAKARTA, 24 November 2016 – The ASEAN Secretariat, in cooperation with the ASEAN Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Network, organised a workshop to raise awareness and enhance cooperation among various stakeholders to promote the practice of CSR in ASEAN. Over the last few decades, the region has made substantial progress in promoting CSR. The Workshop exchanged ideas [...]
JAKARTA, 22 November 2016 – ASEAN is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Between 2004 and 2014, every year on average the region suffered 354,000 disaster-related fatalities—more than half of the world’s total in that period. Economic losses from those disasters totalled an estimated of USD 91 billion. The ASEAN Coordinating Centre [...]
