JAKARTA, 8 August 2019 – ASEAN inaugurated the new ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) building as it celebrated its 52nd anniversary today in Jakarta with a series of commemorative events involving the community, marking a new chapter in the organisation’s history. President Joko Widodo officiated the new building in the presence of Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi, [...]
The Twenty-first Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution (21st MSC) was held on 6 August 2019 in Brunei Darussalam, 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 Twenty-first Meeting of [...]
Jakarta, 19 July 2019 – The Awarding Ceremony of the 5th ASEAN Youth Video Contest was held today in Vientiane, Lao PDR, at the Gala Dinner of the Eleventh ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth. Elia Pramana from Indonesia, Deanna See from Singapore and Anouluck Davong from Lao PDR were awarded as the 1st, 2nd and [...]
SINGAPORE, 1 August 2019 - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the ASEAN Secretariat teamed up to launch a three-year disaster risk reduction plan that aims to strengthen the financial resiliency of ASEAN member states when natural disasters strike. The ASEAN Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Phase 2 (ADRFI-2) ‘plan of action’ will equip [...]
The Special Meeting 01/2019 of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) was convened from 29 July to 1 August 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Prof. Amara Pongsapich, Representative of Thailand to the AICHR, and was attended by AICHR Representatives from all ASEAN Member States The AICHR discussed progress [...]
Participants of the 26th SMP of the Singapore Civil Service with H.E. Dato Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary-General of ASEAN. The delegation was led by H.E. Ambassador Kok Li Peng, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to ASEAN and H.E. Mr. Lai Chung Han, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of [...]
