BANGKOK, 28 February 2017 - The special meeting on the formulation of ASEAN Physical Fitness Indicators (APFI) was organised by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, Thailand on 28 February. The meeting aimed at exchanging health and fitness indicators, and other relevant tools commonly used in the ASEAN Member States to gather information related to [...]
JAKARTA, 27 February 2017 – Ambassador Busadee Santipitaks, the Permanent Representative of Thailand to ASEAN, called on Secretary-General of ASEAN Le Luong Minh on 24 February to bid farewell. Ambassador Busadee’s assignment in Jakarta ends in early March 2017. SG Minh expressed his gratitude to Ambassador Busadee for her dedication and contribution to the work [...]
CHIANG RAI, 24 February 2017 – ASEAN Ministers and representatives responsible for land, forest fires and haze from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam gathered in northern Thailand today to discuss transboundary haze pollution. At the sixth meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution in the Mekong Sub-Region (6th [...]
JAKARTA, 13 February 2017 – Viet Nam won the first prize and outperformed youth contestants from other nine Member States for the second year in a row at the second ASEAN Youth Video Contest. Jos Quyen (21), a graphic design student in Ho Chi Minh City designed, developed, and produced the winning video entitled “Real [...]
JAKARTA, 22 February 2017 - “We need to bring all sectors and stakeholders together and harness our comparative advantages in order to address malnutrition in the ASEAN region and other parts of the world,” said Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee during a courtesy visit by the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Scaling-Up [...]
I chaired the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat today in Boracay. The Retreat is the first gathering of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers under the Philippines’ ASEAN Chairmanship in 2017 with the theme, “Partnering for Change, Engaging the World.” During the Retreat, the Ministers discussed the way forward for ASEAN Community building, including the implementation of the [...]
