More than 300 participants and observers from the ten ASEAN and dialogue partner countries convened as the Fifth ASEAN People’s Assembly (APA) on 8-9 December 2006 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, The Philippines. Organized and hosted by the ASEAN Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN ISIS) through its Philippine member, the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), the fifth APA in support of he goals of the Bali Concord II focused on theme “The Role of the People in Building an ASEAN Community of Caring and Sharing Societies.More than 300 participants and observers from the ten ASEAN and dialogue partner countries convened as the Fifth ASEAN People’s Assembly (APA) on 8-9 December 2006 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, The Philippines. Organized and hosted by the ASEAN Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN ISIS) through its Philippine member, the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), the fifth APA in support of he goals of the Bali Concord II focused on theme “The Role of the People in Building an ASEAN Community of Caring and Sharing Societies.