Defence officials from members of the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia’s largest security grouping led by ASEAN, met in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on May 2nd to discuss regional security issues.
The event, which is an annual meeting of the ARF Defence Officials'
Dialogue, was co-hosted by the RoK and Thailand.
The officials
discussed measures to strengthen maritime security capabilities in a
coordinated manner and to build trust among them.
They also shared
experience on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and explored ways to
cooperate in those fields.
The ARF, formed in
1994, gathers 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), the bloc’s 10 dialogue partners - the EU, Australia, Canada, China,
India, Japan, New Zealand, the RoK, Russia and the US - along with Papua New
Guinea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Timor
Leste, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka./.
The first summit between the European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Brussels, Belgium, marked an important step forward in their bilateral relations.
The 45th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-45) opened in Vientiane on October 19.
Many countries are grappling with rapidly aging population. As population aging becomes an irreversible global trend with significant impacts on economic and social sectors, nations face the urgent task of creating flexible policies to adapt to and make the most of this trend to build prosperous and sustainable societies.
With a series of stimulus measures, the world tourism industry is on the way to recovery as before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Facing the opportunity to take off, the "smokeless industry” is expected to strongly contribute to global economic growth while promoting potential and cohesion, contributing to peace and sustainable development.
The danger from the COVID-19 pandemic is still latent, threatening people’s health and lives in the context that the immunity provided from the COVID-19 vaccine has decreased. Many other dangerous diseases are also likely to break out when the global vaccination rate slows down, due to inequality in access to health services, vaccine hesitancy, and consequences of economic recession.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is witnessing a rise in the sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, according to Maybank Investment Bank Research (Maybank IB Research).
