ASEAN Secretariat News

JAKARTA, 10 May 2021 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), through the Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), and the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Underwriters Laboratories are proud to announce the national finalists in two categories for the Underwriters-Laboratories-ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women 2021. [...]

JAKARTA, 7 May 2021 - With only a handful of action lines left to be implemented, progress of work for the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025 is on the right track. The Blueprint’s Mid-Term Review conducted in 2020 likewise reveals that two in every ten activities evaluated have high impact, more than 80% of them [...]

JAKARTA, 6 May 2021 – ASEAN and the U.S. reaffirmed commitment to further advance their strategic partnership for mutual benefit at the 34th ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue held today,  via videoconference. Senior diplomats from ASEAN and the U.S. were encouraged by the growing cooperation between the two sides across the three pillars. They were pleased to note that significant [...]

JAKARTA, 5 May 2021 - The Accelerated COVID-19 Economic Support (ACES) Workshop entitled “Turning Adversity into Opportunity: ASEAN’s Participation in Global Value Chains in a-Post COVID World” took place today via videoconference. Supported by the United Kingdom (UK), the ACES programme kicked-off in 2020 to bring analytics and data to inform decision-making, and support acceleration [...]

JAKARTA, 30 April 2021 – The outcomes of ASEAN Leaders' Meeting convened last week at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta top the April 2021 edition of "ASEAN Today." Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel co-anchors the program from Jakarta with Nattha Komolvadhin of Thai PBS in Bangkok. They also report on the loss of 53 submarine crew members in Indonesia and a new [...]

JAKARTA – 29 April 2021 - The Second ASEAN Sectoral Bodies and the Stakeholders Consultative Workshops on the Consolidated Strategy on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for ASEAN took place on 27 and 29 April, respectively, via videoconference. In his remarks, Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Satvinder Singh noted that ‘digital transformation is [...]