Ha Noi, 25 January 2021 – Viet Nam’s Ministry for Planning and Industry, supported by the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) Economic Cooperation Support Programme (AECSP) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, held a workshop on the development of a Handbook for Implementing International Investment Commitments. The one-day workshop took place on 15 January. The [...]
SEOUL, 25 JANUARY 2021 – The ASEAN-Korea Youth Academic Webinar, held by the ASEAN-Korea Centre, is set to take place on 27 January at 2PM (KST). The awarding ceremony of the 2020 ASEAN-Korea Academic Essay Contest winners and presentation of the winning essays will be held during the event. The webinar will be live-streamed on the Centre’s [...]
JAKARTA, 24 January 2021 – The 11th Meeting of the Committee of the Whole (CoW) for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) took place on 23 January via video conference. Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for AEC Aladdin D. Rillo chaired the meeting which focused on ASEAN’s economic priorities for the year as well as cross-sectoral and cross-pillar initiatives relating to [...]
The 1st ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting (ADGMIN) was held via video conference on 21 and 22 January 2021. H.E. Dato' Saifuddin bin Abdullah, Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia, chaired the Meeting, and H.E. U Thant Sin Maung, Union Minister for Transport and Communications of Myanmar was the Vice-Chair. The Ministers also held consultations with [...]
JAKARTA, 22 January 2021 – The fifth edition of the “ASEAN Integration in Services” publication is now available online on the ASEAN website. The publication features an overview of various aspects of trade in services in ASEAN. They include the economic importance of services in the region, historical development of services-related policies, assessment of services liberalisation, facilitation of mobility [...]
The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat was held on 21 January 2021 via videoconference. The Retreat was the first major meeting under Brunei Darussalam’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2021. We had in-depth discussions on ASEAN’s priorities for the whole year and on ways to further strengthen the ASEAN Community and ASEAN Centrality as well as advance [...]
