The Open-ended Troika Virtual Meeting between ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom on COVID-19 was held on 30 September 2020 in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam, in his capacity as the Chair of ASEAN [...]
JAKARTA, 29 September 2020 - How Thailand's volunteer first responders are handling the life-threatening Coronavirus is featured in the September 2020 edition of "ASEAN Today." Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel co-anchors the programme from Jakarta along with Tran Minh Ngan of VCT 10 Netviet in Hanoi. They also report on the priorities at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Summit [...]
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Pacific Alliance (PA), a regional integration initiative comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, met on 29 September 2020 via video-conference to further strengthen relations between the two organisations during the first-ever interface between the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR) and the National Coordinators of [...]
BANGKOK, 29 September 2020 – The Third ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit convened today with government officials and business leaders advocating for inclusive business strategies that support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to recover from economic setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the South-East Asia region. The region already faced an ambitious challenge to reach its [...]
Jakarta, 22 September 2020 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, the Mission of the Republic of Korea to ASEAN, and the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) launched the ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management (ASCEND) project to strengthen the region’s capability in [...]
16 September 2020 – Today, ASEAN Member States’ labour and education ministers launched the Roadmap of ASEAN Declaration on Human Resources Development for the Changing World of Work at a high-level conference held by Viet Nam as ASEAN Chair 2020. The launching was witnessed by over 100 local participants in Ha Noi and also virtually [...]
