SINGAPORE, 15 January 2021 - Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supported by the Republic Polytechnic and the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC), is organising a series of trainings on Project Proposal Writing for officials in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (CLMV). The second training for Vietnamese officials kicked off on 4 January and concluded on 15 [...]
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, 15 January 2021 - His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam received in audience the Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi, during the Secretary-General's recent working visit to the country, ASEAN Chair for 2021. Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Masna, Ambassador-at-Large at [...]
JAKARTA, 15 January 2021 – The ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI), the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Underwriters Laboratories, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the discovery and application of scientific knowledge, launched the Underwriters Laboratories-ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women 2021 call for application today. This is the seventh annual [...]
JAKARTA, 11 January 2021 - The ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection (ACCP) launched the Report of ASEAN Consumer Empowerment Index 2020 Pilot Project (ACEI 2020), as envisioned under the ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for Consumer Protection 2016-2025. The ACEI is a composite index calculated on a country level based on questionnaire-styled surveys, in order to benchmark [...]
How ASEAN member states handled the Coronavirus pandemic in the past year tops the December 2020 edition of "ASEAN Today." Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel co-anchors the program from Jakarta with Dennis Reinhard in Phnom Penh. They also report on the impact of COVID-19 on the gold business in Thailand, and prospects for the auto [...]
JAKARTA, 23 December 2020 - The ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) endorsed the Framework for Promoting Accessibility for All in ASEAN Digital Broadcasting on 14 December. The Framework provides guidelines for ASEAN Member States (AMS) to promote broadcasting access services, namely Closed Captions; Audio Description; and Sign Language for all groups of people, including [...]
