NEW DELHI, 4 November 2016 – The ASEAN Secretariat, in partnership with India’s Ministry of Home Affairs and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) launched the ASEAN Declaration “One ASEAN, One Response: ASEAN Responding to Disasters as One in the Region and Outside the Region” in New Delhi today. The declaration is [...]
JAKARTA, 4 November 2016 - The ASEAN Women’s Circle of Jakarta (AWC) hosted its Annual Bazaar on 2-3 November at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta to raise fund for charity. More than 60 vendors offered goods ranging from batik fabric and clothes to handicrafts and accessories. In her welcome remarks at the opening ceremony, AWC [...]
BANGKOK, 3 November 2016 – A training course to enhance border security across Southeast Asia was held under the framework of the EU-ASEAN Migration and Border Management Programme II. Hosted by the Royal Thai Police, the nine-day course on integrated border management aimed to build the capacity of countries in the region to address crimes [...]
JAKARTA, 1 November 2016 - Armenia is keen on forging cooperative relations with ASEAN and its Member States, and would also push for region-to-region cooperation between ASEAN and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), said its Foreign Minister, Edward Nalbandian during his meeting with Secretary-General of ASEAN, Le Luong Minh at the ASEAN Secretariat yesterday. Welcoming [...]
SIEM REAP, 1 November 2016 – ASEAN and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with UL, a global safety science organisation, announced Dr. Worajit Setthapun of Thailand as the winner of the 2016 ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women on 28 October. She was honoured at the Science and Technology award ceremony held [...]
JAKARTA, 1 November 2016 — Afghanistan expressed its admiration for ASEAN’s success in regional integration and community building and conveyed its interest to learn from ASEAN in order to forge closer relations. The first Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to ASEAN Roya Rahmani conveyed this message during the presentation of her Letter of [...]
