JAKARTA, 30 November 2020 - The private sector in ASEAN now has access to a powerful new online system, the ASEAN Customs Transit System (ACTS), which will reduce intra-ASEAN trading challenges and enable companies to benefit fully from the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the free movement of goods across the ASEAN region. In 2017, [...]
JAKARTA, 30 November 2020 – The eighth issue of the ASEAN Economic Integration Brief (AEIB) is released today. A special feature article by the Minister of Industry and Trade of Viet Nam Tran Tuan Anh,, Chair of the ASEAN Economic Ministers and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Council 2020, highlights AEC’s key progress and [...]
JAKARTA/ONLINE, 30 November 2020 - Senior officials from ASEAN and the European Union (EU) gathered virtually on 27 November for the second EU-ASEAN High-Level Dialogue on Environment and Climate Change. During the dialogue, EU and ASEAN discussed their cooperation on shared regional and global challenges related to the protection of the environment and the fight [...]
JAKARTA, 30 December 2020 - Post-pandemic recovery plans were the focus of several regional summits held virtually. That tops the November 2020 edition of "ASEAN Today." Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel co-anchors the program from Jakarta along with Ain Bandial in Bandar Seri Begawan. They also report on family feuds caused by pro-democracy protests [...]
LOS BAÑOS, 30 November 2020 — The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), in collaboration with Viet Nam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the ASEAN Secretariat, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) held the Wildlife Conservation and Zoonotic Diseases: Halting Species Loss and Tackling Public Health in the [...]
JAKARTA, 30 November 2020 – ASEAN Ministers in charge of disaster management agreed on the strategic direction of regional cooperation in mitigating disaster losses and responding to disaster emergencies for the next five years. On 27 November, they adopted the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Work Programme 2021-2025. The AADMER work [...]
