A Mediator Named ASEAN: Lessons from Preah Vihear
ASEAN was never really meant as a dispute settlement organisation. But even then and despite its record of tiptoeing around sensitive 'internal' issues, it took on the role of a mediator in 2011 as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in border clashes over the Preah Vihear temple. Sarakadee magazine's Sujane Kanpar more ...
Keeping Up With ASEAN in Singapore
SINGAPORE, Jan 21 (IPS Asia-Pacific) – In late 2011, Singapore pledged 50 million Singapore dollars (40.7 million US dollars) to help its neighbours Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam integrate better into the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community that is to be in place by 2015. more ...
ASEAN Ministers Vow To Deepen Tourism Cooperation
VIENTIANE, Jan 20 (Philstar) - Representatives of the ten ASEAN nations met on Sunday in Laos' capital of Vientiane to launch the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF), where they pledged to expand tourism cooperation and discussed creating a pan-ASEAN tourist visa. more ...
Critics Slam Adoption of ‘Flawed’ ASEAN Rights Declaration
Fifty-five civil society organisations have deplored the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration at the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 18. They issued the following press statement below: more ...
