
Indonesia licenses first home-grown COVID-19 vaccine
Indonesia has approved its first locally developed COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, head of national food and drug agency Penny Lukito said on September 30.
ASEAN pledges to go ahead with promoting social development: Ambassador
Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, head of the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the UN, has affirmed that ASEAN is fully committed to continuing to promote social development
ASEAN Committee meets to step up strategic partnership with US
Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung on September 26 chaired three meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Committee in Washington D.C (ACW).
Illegal migration gets more acute
Illegal migration, which was already complex, has now become even more acute with a series of tragic incidents occurring in the Middle East and the Americas.
ASEAN casts bright tourism outlook
ASEAN has issued a statement to emphasise the region’s tourism recovery, with hotel searches, occupancy rates and travel confidence rising.
Buddhist Sanghas celebrate Vietnam-Laos friendship year
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) and the Lao Buddhist Coalition held a ceremony in Vientiane on September 24 to mark the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year 2022.
UN backs Vietnam’s development priorities: Secretary-General
The United Nations (UN) will continue paying attention to and support Vietnam's development priorities towards green and sustainable orientations, and just transition,
Malaysia aims to achieve zero hardcore poverty by 2025
Malaysia’s government is optimistic about achieving the target of zero hardcore poverty by the end or 2025...
ASEAN officials discuss measures to strengthen cooperation
An informal ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting (IAMM) took place at the UN headquarters in New York on September 22
First ASEAN-EU Cultural Festival underway
The first edition of the ASEAN-EU Cultural Festival is being held both offline and online in Jakarta
Southeast Asia needs to speed up energy transition: IRENA
Southeast Asian nations need to more than double their annual investment on renewables to accelerate energy transition and to meet climate goals.
Thailand, Malaysia seeks to promote cross-border trade
The Thai and Malaysian governments are in talks to construct two new bridges across Golok River, aimed at boosting cross-border trade,
ASEAN creates healthy competition environment for SMEs
Heads of ASEAN member economies have agreed to create a mechanism to promote competition
Seven killed in mine gold landslide in Indonesia
Seven people have died and five others injured after a landslide at an illegal gold mine buried an estimated 20 people, officials said on September 17.
ASEAN, UNOPS cooperates in fighting marine plastic pollution
ASEAN and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) have signed an agreement to support ASEAN member states in combating marine plastic pollution...