ASEAN Secretariat News

H.E Dato Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary-General of ASEAN, met with H.E. Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic; H.E. Josep Borrell Fontelles, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation of Spain; and H.E. Heiko Maas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany at the [...]

JAKARTA, 21 January 2019 - The business impact of online transportation services in the region is highlighted in the January 2019 edition of "ASEAN Today." Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel anchors the program from the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. She also reports on the problems of "orphanage tourism" in Thailand and bringing migrants together [...]

JAKARTA, 14 January 2019 – The ASEAN Foundation with the support from the ASEAN Secretariat and U.S. Government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched the call for applications for the 5th ASEAN Science and Technology Fellowship programme, targeted at early- and mid-career scientists from ten ASEAN countries. The programme aims to empower [...]

BANGKOK, 14 January 2018 - ASEAN kicked-off the year with another strong start as more than 900 participants attended the Special Session on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), held in Bangkok today. Co-organised by the Ministry of Commerce of Thailand and the ASEAN Secretariat on the sidelines of the 9th Committee of the Whole for [...]

Permanent Under-Secretary at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Simon McDonald, and British Ambassadors from ASEAN Member States, met with H.E. Hoang Anh Tuan, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Security Community Department and H.E Aladdin D. Rillo, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Economic Community Department, to discuss ASEAN-UK cooperation, 10 January 2019 [...]

BANGKOK, 5 December 2018 - The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened the 2018 Dialogue to mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in the ASEAN Community from 3 to 5 December in Bangkok. It was the fourth annual dialogue conducted with a view to fostering the realisation of the rights of persons [...]