JAKARTA, 30 June 2020 - The Government of Canada donated N95 and medical masks for COVID-19 preventive and control measures to ASEAN Member States (AMS) and the ASEAN Secretariat, yesterday. Ambassador of Canada to ASEAN Diedrah Kelly symbolically gave the donation to the Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi, in a hand-over ceremony held [...]
JAKARTA, 30 June 2020 - The ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) staff completed a second round of rapid antibody tests for COVID-19 today. The tests were done to prevent and control COVID-19 transmission among officials, staff and personnel working in ASEC premises and support the ongoing community surveillance of the disease transmission in Jakarta. The first round [...]
JAKARTA, 27 June 2020 – In commemorating the International MSME Day, the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ACCMSME) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a Policy Insight on boosting MSME resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. ASEAN Member States (AMS) have made laudable efforts to strengthen the resilience [...]
1. The ASEAN Leaders’ Special Session at the 36th ASEAN Summit on Women’s Empowerment in the Digital Age was held on 26 June 2020 via videoconferencing. The Special Session was chaired by H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of Viet Nam, in his capacity as the Chairman of ASEAN and was attended by Leaders of [...]
1. We, the Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member States, gathered for the 36th ASEAN Summit on 26 June 2020. Under the theme of Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN in 2020, we underscored the need to enhance ASEAN’s unity, cooperation and solidarity, economic integration, ASEAN awareness and identity, and emphasized the importance of promoting ASEAN pro-activeness [...]
1. ASEAN Member States (AMS) acknowledge that the digital and technological transformation and Fourth Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0) bring implications to the economies, industries and employment in many countries around the world. Job creation or transformation, innovations, evolving job categories/descriptions, intensified productivity, skills gap, adaptability of human resources and education to the changing labour [...]
