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Press Release for 9th ASEAN Leaderspeak MAKATI, Philippines – Recognizing the increasing importance of marine and coastal resources in the region, the Asian Institute of Management featured three distinguished scientists from the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) to share their insights on citizen science as a new initiative for protecting and conserving essential marine and coastal areas – aligned with the Coral Triangle Initiative of the ASEAN. “If you give nature a chance, she will […]
PHILIPPINE and U.S. soldiers began their biggest combined military exercise in 15 years on Monday (April 20), in a demonstration of Washington’s commitment to its long-time ally as it rebalances to Asia in the face of China’s expansion in the South China Sea. The annual “Balikatan” (shoulder-to-shoulder) war games are part of a new U.S. military initiative known as Pacific Pathways, involving a series of drills across the Asia-Pacific as America deploys more troops, ships […]
GOVERNMENT ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday (April 16) said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew in what has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. Most of the passengers were Chinese. The extended search […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacanang said that it would continue communicating with other member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the international community in addressing the campaign against China’s continued reclamation work in the West Philippine Sea. Communications Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma Jr., said the country’s moves would be centered on diplomacy, as it continued to push for the crafting of a binding Code of Conduct in the South China Sea […]
Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. The bill seeks to ban the sale, production, distribution and consumption of all beverages containing more than one percent of alcohol, including local brews such as rice wine that are popular in many parts of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago. A lawmaker for one […]
THE 44th Meeting of the Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies (EGNRET44), a sub-working group of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), began on Monday at the Fort Ilocandia Resort Hotel in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, considered as an emerging renewable energy capital in Southeast Asia. “As an emerging renewable energy capital in the country, and even in Southeast Asia, we are proud that the province had been chosen to host the meeting to be […]
The implementation of Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement will be conducive to the realization of a peaceful, united and harmonious Myanmar, according to H.E. Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN. In a letter addressed to Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin dated April 6, SG Minh conveyed his congratulations to President U Thein Sein and the Government of Myanmar on the ceasefire agreement reached with the leaders of the 16 ethnic armed groups operating in […]
Malaysians lawmakers passed an anti-terrorism bill on Tuesday (April 7) after more than 10 hours of heated debate over a law that reintroduces detention without trial, three years after it was revoked. Opposition members of parliament proposed several amendments to the legislation, under which individuals can be detained for up to two years with two-year extensions thereafter, but it was voted through unchanged at 2 a.m. (1800 GMT Monday 6). Malaysia last had detention without […]
An Indonesian court on Monday (April 6) rejected last-ditch legal challenges by Australian drug convicts Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who are facing execution by firing squad. They had challenged the court’s decision not to hear an appeal against President Joko Widodo’s refusal of clemency. The rejection of their challenge means that the two men have exhausted all avenues of legal recourse, according to a spokesman for the Attorney General. Their legal team said they […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital, officials said on Sunday. Witnesses told state news agency Bernama they saw the helicopter explode in mid-air before it crashed into the ground in the town of Semenyih outside Kuala Lumpur late on Saturday. The Prime Minister’s Office […]
ASEAN member countries face a big challenge in keeping a delicate balance between environmental sustainability and economic development, according to the secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh told parliamentarians in the recent 132nd Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly held in Hanoi, Vietnam that ASEAN member c ountries, as elsewhere in the world, face this challenge despite having an abundant natural and human resources. Luong Minh […]
Manila, Philippines (Eagle News Service) — The Philippines will have three million more jobs with the coming of ASEAN Integration, but 38 percent of this would be in the field of vulnerable jobs. This was according to a study of the International Labor Organization which was mentioned in a recent forum on 21st century skills for ASEAN, hosted by Asia Society Philippines. According to ILO country director Lawrence Jeff Johnson, the ASEAN Integration will create […]
