Monthly Archives: March 2017

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, 31 March 2017 – The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) joined a fellowship programme organised by the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at University of Queensland from 27-­31 March 2017. The ACWC exchanged views with senior officials from the Department [...]

BANGKOK, 31 March 2017 – The High-Level Brainstorming Dialogue on Enhancing Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was held at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) today. The meeting explored ways and means to enhance complementarities between the ASEAN [...]

JAKARTA, 31 March 2017 – ASEAN and the Republic of Korea (ROK) reaffirmed their commitment to forge closer cooperation at an important meeting that serves as a key mechanism to review ASEAN-ROK cooperation and discuss future direction. At the 4th Meeting of the ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK) Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) held yesterday in Jakarta, [...]

VIENTIANE, 30 March 2017 – ASEAN and Russia have agreed to expand cooperation in various areas to further enhance the partnership. This was a key focus of the  discussions at the 14th ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials Meeting (ARSOM) held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, yesterday. The 14th ARSOM explored ways to expedite implementation of the proposals to [...]

JAKARTA, 29 March 2017 - On 29-30 March 2017, the ASEAN Secretariat together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für lnternationale Zusammenarbeit (GlZ) – on behalf of the German Government, are co-hosting the 5th Regional Policy Dialogue on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to highlight “Current Trends and Initiatives to Advance TVET in ASEAN” at [...]

JAKARTA, 27 March 2017 - What is biodiversity? Ask people what they think it means, and chances are only a few can accurately define it. Fewer still can explain its significance to human survival. The immense communication gap between the biodiversity conservation community and the general public is a major factor hampering efforts to achieve [...]