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| | Association of Southeast Asian Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political, economic, and cultural organization of countries located in Southeast Asia. | | | ASEAN was originally formed out of an organization called the Association of Southeast Asia (ASA), an alliance consisting of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand that formed in 1961. | | | Member nations were assigned to be the summit host in alphabetical order except in the case of Myanmar which dropped its 2006 hosting rights in 2004 due to pressure from the United States. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_South_East_Asian_Nations
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| | The Epoch Times ASEAN Seeking to Boost Exports With Free Trade Agreements |
| | HONG KONG - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has gone from its origins as a small grouping of relatively impoverished nations to one of the world's major trading blocs. | | | Teofilo Aquila studies Southeast Asian economic development at the National University of Singapore and says many small ASEAN companies may lose the struggle when the F.T.A. with China starts phasing in next year. | | | Ifzal Ali is the chief economist for the Asian Development Bank, a non-profit lending institution in Manila. |
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http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/4-11-18/24443.html
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| | 1979 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for International Understanding - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| | The immediate predecessor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was the Association of Southeast Asia (ASA) which was formed in July 1961 by Malaya, the Philippines and Thailand. | | | The foreign ministers of the five participating countries met in Bangkok and on August 8, 1967 formed the expanded Association of Southeast Asian Nations. | | | Of the 201,950 "boat people" who had fled to Southeast Asian nations, 132,850 remained to be resettled, 75,000 of them in Malaysia and 43,000 in Indonesia. |
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http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyASEAN.htm
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| | Headquarters :: Regional Affairs :: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) :: Recent Developments |
| | The Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA) is a national voluntary, non-profit organization which seeks to expand and disseminate knowledge about Asia in Canada. | | | The Centre's goal is to raise the profile of scholarship and education about Asia and Asian diasporas through research, lectures, workshops, and other public events. | | | In September 2003, the Institute collaborated with Foreign Affairs Canada's Southeast Asia Division in organising a major conference in Montreal entitled "Canada and Islam in Asia in the 21st Century". |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/asia/main/regional/asean-resources-en.asp
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| | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration by the five original Member Countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. | | | The countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have a combined population of 890 million and now constitute one of the fastest growing regions in the world. | | | The ASEAN nations came together with three main objectives in mind: to promote the economic, social and cultural development of the region through cooperative programmes; to safeguard the political and economic stability of the region against big power rivalry; and to serve as a forum for the resolution of intra-regional differences. |
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http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/blokit/asean.htm
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| | Background Notes on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| | To curb external interference, in 1971 the ASEAN nations set as their goal the establishment of a zone of peace, freedom, and neutrality (ZOPFAN) for Southeast Asia, and this was included in the Bali Declaration signed by the ASEAN heads of government in 1976. | | | However, the collapse of international commodity prices in the mid-1980s and the subsequent downturn in the economies of several ASEAN nations spurred regional leaders to initiate serious economic reforms and trade liberalization plans. | | | In order to achieve closer relations with major developed nations, ASEAN has instituted an annual "Post-Ministerial Conference" at the foreign minister level with the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, the European Community, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/ASEAN.html
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| | The founders of the association of southeast Asian Nations |
| | The founders of the association of southeast Asian Nations | | | The history of ASEAN may be told as a series of important events or milestones, which reflect the steady growth of the association, the expansion of its agenda, and the decisions it has taken that have veritably changed the history of Southeast Asia. | | | The development of science and technology in Southeast Asia is considered a major activity in ASEAN cooperation because of its pivotal role in economic modernisation. |
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http://www.eppo.go.th/inter/asean/asean-sec/ASEAN-Overview.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Asean signs historic deal with China |
| | The agreement, signed at the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit in Laos, is aimed at setting up the world's biggest free trade zone. | | | Linking up with Asean's 10 nations - including Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia- will create a combined market of two billion people. | | | The Asean group of south-east Asian states sealed a historic trade pact with China today in the latest move towards a pan-Asian trade bloc that could rival the EU and the US. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1361984,00.html
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| | TNI Publications |
| | Four years ago, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) seemed well on the way to becoming a real economic bloc. | | | Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leek-Pai warned of the association's rapidly falling behind other regional economic blocs in global trade. | | | Today, it is in danger of joining such august predecessors as Maphilindo (Malaysia-Philippines-Indonesia) and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (Seato) in the proverbial dustbin of history. |
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http://www.tni.org/archives/bello/autopsy.htm
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| | Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| | On Monday the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed an accord with China that will create an open market of 2 billion people by 2010 to compete with Europe and the United States. | | | The crunch is that not all of Australia's prospective Asian partners are prepared to divorce the two issues of trade and diplomacy, especially as China's hulking presence is forcing just about everyone to reassess where their strategic interests lie. | | | But in failing to conform to Asian expectations, Australia will leave itself exposed to a far greater set of diplomatic pressures once the serious talk starts on a broader East Asian agreement. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL01Ad08.html
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| | US-ASEAN Business Council |
| | Designed as process rather than a singular event, this program seeks to engage stakeholders in the public, private, multilateral and NGO sectors in the months before the expiration of the MFA-and in the months following the January 2005 deadline-in dialogue, action planning, and the generation of investment and policy prescriptions. | | | The US-ASEAN Business Council delivers proven business results in Southeast Asia. | | | Our goal is to make easily available factual information that would allow members to manage the impact of AI on their business environments. |
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http://www.us-asean.org
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| | TIMEasia Magazine: Going Nowhere |
| | Ruili's Gong argues that China's economic role "helps to push forward economic and political reform in Burma." This thinking led the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the region's main political forum, to invite Burma to become a member in 1997. | | | "The ability of sanctions to limit investment in energy is probably negligible," says Andrew Symon, an energy-industry specialist at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. | | | While most major oil companies are barred by sanctions from investing in Burma's energy sector, there has been no shortage of foreigners scrambling for a piece of the action. |
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http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060130/story2.html
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| | United States, ASEAN Nations Commit to Enhanced Partnership |
| | The United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have negotiated terms of a comprehensive agreement that will strengthen ties and increase cooperation across a range of economic, political and security issues. | | | The vision statement establishes mutual goals and priorities for the two sides and calls on the foreign ministers and trade ministers of the ASEAN nations to work with the U.S. secretary of state and U.S. trade representative to develop and implement an action plan to achieve those goals. | | | Expressing a common interest in the development of ASEAN as a regional institution that will effectively contribute to peace, prosperity, and stability in Southeast Asia and the world, and recognizing the important contribution of the United States to maintaining peace and stability and to promoting prosperity; |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=November&x=20051117154502ASesuarK0.7490351&t=dhr/hr-latest.html
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| | Maritime security, accordingly, is at the forefront of Southeast Asian political concerns. | | | The oceans are indivisible and maritime security threats do not respect boundaries." (1) Southeast Asian cooperation is currently inadequate in terms of the maritime threat; however, structural, economic, and normative factors are leading to greater cooperation. | | | Today more than half of the world's annual merchant tonnage traverses Southeast Asian waters; its oceans and seas yield vast revenues in such industries as fishing, hydrocarbon extraction, and tourism. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_3_58/ai_n15674369
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Overview of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok by the five original Member Countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. | | | Regional resilience shall be achieved by cooperating in all fields based on the principles of self-confidence, self-reliance, mutual respect, cooperation, and solidarity, which shall constitute the foundation for a strong and viable community of nations in Southeast Asia. | | | (ii) to promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and therule of law in the relationship among countries in the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter. |
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http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts34491.htm
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| | East Asian nations seek permanent emergency rice reserve - INQ7.net |
| | ASEAN already has 87,000 metric tonnes of emergency rice reserve under its own food security reserve agreement, and so far four countries have finished their internal processes to earmark their rice reserve there to be part of the emergency rice stock for East Asia, he added. | | | TAGAYTAY--East Asian countries have called for a permanent regional rice reserve to deal with emergency food supply during disasters such as last year's Asian tsunami. | | | The regional partners have a three-year emergency rice reserve pilot project that ends in March 2007, but the ministers agreed during the meeting in the resort town of Tagaytay, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Manila, to convert the pilot project into a permanent scheme on a voluntary basis, officials said. |
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http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=51970
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| | article.print?id=4353 |
| | After four decades of cooperation, at least four Declarations, two Concords, two Treaties, one Protocol, a Vision Statement and countless agreements, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) now says it wants to establish itself into a "community". | | | But critics forget that despite intensified economic cooperation, nations of the southeast Asian region privately still regard each as rivals. | | | But the community of Southeast Asians which ASEAN hopes to establish will likely remain legalistic and formal in nature -- like much of the collaborations it has engaged so far -- if it persists in inventing words rather than giving relevant substance to its dialog. |
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=4353
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| | The ASEAN Union |
| | This week in the Philippines, leaders of the nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including China, Japan, and South Korea, featured a communique on closer collaboration on trade issues. | | | The European Union and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) form powerful blocs, and China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) leads that Asian power closer to free trade, erasing some of the advantage that ASEAN's WTO members currently hold. | | | Few of the ASEAN countries could clear the European bars, and even much looser requirements would be troublesome for many. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/politics_east_asia/29376
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| | Fighting terrorism—and each other. By June Thomas |
| | The international war on terrorism tops the agenda of this week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Brunei, but thus far much of the organization's energy seems to have been drained by economic and territorial disputes. | | | Three of the ASEAN nations—Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia—have Muslim majorities, and since Sept. 11 many commentators have suggested that Southeast Asia, the home to more than 250 million Muslims, is the "second front" in the war against al-Qaida. | | | Brunei's Borneo Bulletin said the "urgent need to address terrorism and global economic realities has wiped the once highly-touted 'Asian values' mantra from the vocabulary" of delegates. |
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| | Failure To Take Off By June Thomas |
| | The press commiserated over failure this week—of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to become something more than a diplomatic cocktail party, of Concorde to maintain its sterling safety record, of George W. Bush to do something bold, and of Germany's new spelling rules to take hold. | | | However, what Hong Kong's South China Morning Post called ASEAN's "sacred mantra of non-interference in the internal affairs of others" limits the effectiveness of such an executive committee—since it would have no powers to set policy without the consent of all 10 member nations. | | | George W. Bush's choice of running mate received a remarkably unified reaction as papers across the political spectrum chose the same word to describe the naming of Dick Cheney: The National Post and the Globe and Mail of Canada and Britain's Guardian and Times all used "safe" in their headlines. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/87093
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| | CNN.com - ASEAN pledges joint anti-terror action - Nov. 4, 2002 |
| | This year's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Phen is being held under the tightest security ever. | | | Southeast Asian leaders meeting in Cambodia have pledged to take joint action against "the evil of terrorism" and to protect foreigners from Bali-style bomb attacks. | | | The ASEAN leaders, upset by a series of travel warnings issued by mostly Western nations, also asked for a halt in future advisories unless there is concrete evidence of a terrorist threat. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/11/03/asean.terror
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| | AEGiS-AFP News: ARF-US-AIDS: Powell appeals for Asia to recognize AIDS as a security threat - June 18, 2003 |
| | Powell told the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) that unless such a determination was made, AIDS would likely destroy individual countries and destabilize the entire region, making it a much more potent threat than a nuclear weapon, a senior State Department official said. | | | According to the United Nations, HIV/AIDS is still spreading throughout East Asia and the Pacific with between two and 3.5 million people of all ages infected. | | | AEGiS is made possible through unrestricted grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, the National Library of Medicine, and donations from users like you. |
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » ASEAN tackles smoke haze |
| | ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, 10 March - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has put into operation its Fire Suppression Mobilisation measures in the districts of Riau Province, Indonesia to contain the spread of forest fires and smoke haze. | | | The Indonesian Government has declared these incidents a national disaster and has released an amount of 100 million rupiah to support the fire suppression efforts. | | | The Indonesian Government has anticipated this possible recurrence of forest fires and haze and advised the public in February that the dry season might come earlier than expected. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/abee27bc2fd4f10fc12568a300397c8b?OpenDocument
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| | 1979 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for International Understanding - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| | ASEAN, therefore, owes its success to the collective efforts of its five Southeast Asian nations for having established a sound framework for economic growth, social progress and stability in the region. | | | They declared that the countries of Southeast Asia share the primary responsibility for strengthening the economic and social stability of the region, which is essential for peace and freedom. | | | The award that is bestowed on ASEAN today symbolizes not only recognition but also a testimony of the wise leadership of the member governments of ASEAN. |
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http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Response/ResponseASEAN.htm
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| | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| | Founded in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) provides an effective forum for consultation and political cooperation in the region. | | | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) and the 35 | | | These meetings are important in that they give Canada and 22 other countries-from both inside and outside the region-the opportunity to discuss political, economic and security issues affecting Southeast Asia. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/focus/asean-en.asp
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| | Photos - PGMA's Working Visit to Tokyo, Japan 2003 |
| | The President is in Tokyo to attend the two-day Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Commemorative Summit with her fellow Southeast Asian leaders to commemorate the region& three decades of economic and security partnership with Japan. | | | The President is in Tokyo with her fellow Southeast Asian leaders in the ongoing Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Commemorative Summit. | | | The President is in Tokyo to attend the two-day Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Commemorative Summit. |
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http://www.ops.gov.ph/japan2003/photos.htm
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| | APCO Worldwide :: Case Studies :: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| | APCO Worldwide :: Case Studies :: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | | | The association took important steps toward achieving this goal, in particular by developing the Asian Free Trade Agreement and critical new security measures to combat terrorism in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2002 Bali bombing. | | | Consistent delivery of key messages by diverse third parties about ASEAN's achievements helped restore confidence in the association, while press interviews and speaking engagements raised awareness of ASEAN and its key initiatives among stakeholders. |
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http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content/case-studies/asean.cfm
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| | Borneo Dissertation Bibliography display full record page |
| | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is composed of six non-Communist states in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and beginning in, the state of Brunei. | | | The purpose of this study is to investigate regional military co-operation among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). | | | However, the idea of a collective security system has always met with opposition from both within and outside ASEAN. |
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http://www2.library.unr.edu/dataworks/borneo/searchfull.asp?p_ID=98
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