BEIJING, 13 JUNE 2018 - Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Lim Jock Hoi highlighted that in light of the 15th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership, both ASEAN and China are committed to continuing to further strengthen the partnership. Meeting State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Wang Yi at his office yesterday, Dato Lim [...]
BANGKOK, 12 June 2018 - The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) continued its efforts to elevate business and human rights in the region through an interregional dialogue held on 4 – 6 June in Bangkok. The Interregional Dialogue: Sharing Good Practices on Business and Human Rights was attended by more than 200 participants from [...]
JAKARTA, 12 June 2018 - The June 2018 edition of “ASEAN Today” is out and it highlights the official end of the search for a missing Malaysian Airlines flight. Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel anchors the program from the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. She also reports on marketing Cambodian rice to the world and [...]
SINGAPORE, 9 June 2018 – ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China reaffirmed the importance of their strategic partnership and agreed to further strengthen the close relations at the 24th ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Consultation held on 8 June in Singapore. Both sides welcomed the good progress made in advancing ASEAN-China cooperation over the past year, including [...]
SIEM REAP, 4 June 2018 – Representatives from the Cambodian government, ASEAN Secretariat, and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) celebrated the 25th anniversary of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The officials were joined by youth participants and representatives of the media and other sectors at the [...]
1. The Twentieth Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution (20th MSC) was held on 1 June 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand, and attended by Ministers/representatives responsible for the environment, for land, forest fires and haze, from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, and the Secretary-General of ASEAN. The Twentieth Meeting [...]
