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JAKARTA, 4 March 2015 – With long, admirable track record of promoting cooperation and solidarity among ASEAN ladies, the ASEAN Women’s Circle (AWC) is poised to make a difference in the course of the ASEAN’s journey toward a caring and sharing ASEAN Community through a change of guards. Today, Mrs. Ugi Pramono, spouse of …
JAKARTA, 20 February 2015 – The ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) announced the start of the second batch of the AHA Centre Executive (ACE) Programme earlier this week. Sixteen disaster management officers from ASEAN Member States’ National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs) from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Viet …
ILOILO, 18 February 2015 – The first stakeholders’ meeting and inception workshop was held on 17-18 February in Iloilo City, Philippines, to launch the Adopt-a-Municipality for Resilient Recovery – a project under the ASEAN Assistance for the Recovery of Yolanda-Affected Areas in the Philippines. The Adopt-a-Municipality project is an initiative of ASEAN in modeling …
JAKARTA, 16 February 2015 – ASEAN conducted a two-day Training Needs Assessment (TNA) Workshop on Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) and Disaster Recovery, on 11-12 February in Jakarta. The workshop aimed at building the capacity of the ASEAN Disaster Management Training Institutes Network (ADTRAIN) and standardising regional Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) and recovery guidelines …
JAKARTA, 9 February 2015 – The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, H.E. Igor V. Morgulov, paid an official visit to the ASEAN Secretariat and met with Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh, on 6 February 2015. SG Minh welcomed Deputy Minister Morgulov and expressed appreciation for Russia’s contribution to ASEAN community …
JAKARTA, 5 February 2015 – A 65-member delegation from the Japanese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), led by Dr. Akio Mimura, Chairman of JCCI, visited the ASEAN Secretariat this week, as part of their 2015 Economic Mission to Indonesia and the Philippines. H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, welcomed the heightened interest …
JAKARTA, 4 February 2015 – H.E. Mourad Belhassen officially assumed his position as the first Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to ASEAN when he presented his Letter of Credence to H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, at the ASEAN Secretariat yesterday. SG Minh congratulated Ambassador Belhassen for his new role and looked forward …
Singapore and Hong Kong, July 21, 2014 – IDC’s preliminary results show that the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market increased 2%from last quarter and declined 10% year-on-year in Q2 2014 to reach 24.3 million units, coming in marginally higher than IDC’s initial forecasts. In India, shipments to an ongoing large education project came in …
MANILA, 18 July 2014 – The 4th ASEAN Competition Conference brought together competition experts and public-private stakeholders from ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Republic of Korea, US, EU and international entities such as UNCTAD and the OECD, to discuss the experiences of ASEAN Member States (AMS) in Competition Policy and Law (CPL) enforcement and share …
JAKARTA, 18 July 2014 – A Workshop on Review and Development of Guidelines on ASEAN Common Food Control Requirements (ACFCRs) was held on 14 – 15 July 2014 at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, to review the existing ACFCRs published in 2006 and the proposed new draft Guidelines. The workshop was held in conjunction with a …