Author: Asyrafi Mutiara

JAKARTA/BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, June 12 (Bernama-VNA): The Asean Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) has called for boosting trade and investment with Japan. Chair of ASEAN-BAC Arsjad Rasjid said the close partnership between Asean and Japan over the past 50 years will accelerate the strengthening of economic integration and the establishment of a free trade area, and enhance competitiveness in the global market. He said the Asean-Japan partnership will accelerate liberalisation and facilitate trade in goods, services, and investment in the region, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported. He added that as an Asean strategic partner, Japan will work together with ASEAN-BAC to…

Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA) – Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo pushed for a collaboration among stakeholders to suppress the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) infecting livestock, particularly ahead of Eid al-Adha in June. “Regional authorities, the quarantine body, the police, and the customs office must work together to ensure the (livestock) availability during the Eid al-Adha,” Limpo stated after his visit to the Jakarta I Fish Quarantine and Fishery Quality Control and Security Office here on Monday. He highlighted that the success in suppressing the disease effectively last year proved that collaboration between stakeholders yielded a positive outcome to control FMD.…

Hanoi (VNA) – A workshop was held in Hanoi on May 22, providing guidelines for displaying the ASEAN Flag next to the National Flag at the compound of ASEAN Member State’s military units participating in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. The event, held in a hybrid format, attracted the participation of representatives from ASEAN countries, the ASEAN Secretariat and the Military Attachés of ASEAN countries in Vietnam. It aimed to promote the realisation of Vietnam’s initiative on this issue, which was adopted at the 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) in December 2020. Vietnam’s initiative is to promote solidarity within the ASEAN community in general and among defence…

The Chinese government is supporting projects to improve the skills of teachers in rural areas and distance education in Laos, aiming to promote educational development in the country. A launching ceremony for the China-aided project of technical support for distance education in Laos was held here on Wednesday. The project, to be implemented by the Shanghai Education Publishing House, mainly includes the establishment of 20 distance education training points throughout Laos, among which are 19 distance education training centers and one distance education training resource center. China will help Laos formulate the National Information Technology (ICT) skill standards for primary…

Indonesia is rich as its cultures and provinces. Indonesia is also famous as the country with hundreds of tribes, one of the biggest Muslim countries in the world, and one famous capital city called Jakarta or other big cities, Indonesia people tend to do the activity called Mudik. If Indonesia people have stayed for such time in a big city, every Eid Fitr or other big celebration days, they will go back to their hometown and meet their root family. But what is the origin of the word Mudik in Indonesia? The origin of the word Mudik Mudik word comes from the word Udik, or in KBBI (Kamus…

In the past year, Laos has witnessed more popular unrest than at any time in decades, as well as what might have been an unprecedented gesture of government accountability. The wave of discontent began last June over economic woes that included a currency crisis and an inflation rate that has now reached more than 40 percent. Though it’s hard to know for sure, given the Laotian government’s opaque nature, the protests may even have forced former Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh from office in December. The discontent has manifested itself in multiple ways. There has been a massive upsurge of virulently angry criticism…

The estranged younger brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he has effectively self-exiled in Europe and is “unlikely to return to Singapore” due to fear of political persecution. Lee Hsien Yang said during a phone interview with Kyodo News Tuesday he has been considering running in the presidential election that is to take place by September. But the younger son of Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew alluded to being close to giving up on contesting the upcoming election due to the latest wave of verbal attacks against him. “I left Singapore in June last year.…

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim slammed ASEAN on Thursday for its inaction on Myanmar, saying the regional bloc’s principle of non-interference in member-states’ affairs must not descend into indifference. Consensus-based decision making should not devolve into silence on violations of the bloc’s core principles of respect for democratic values, human rights and fundamental freedoms, he said during a lecture at the University of the Philippines in Metro Manila. Anwar, who is on an official visit to the Philippines, spoke to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a day earlier about Myanmar, suggesting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should explore new approaches to…

The 16-year-old was shot in the head after reportedly driving from service station without paying for 20 euros of petrol Thousands of protesters have marched through Thessaloniki and Athens, as Roma community leaders appealed for calm after the death of a teenager shot in the head last week during a police chase. The 16-year-old boy, who has not been officially named, died on Tuesday, eight days after he was shot by a police motorcyclist after reportedly driving away from a service station without paying for 20 euros of petrol. “Today … despite the enormous efforts of staff in the intensive care…

Indonesia has been appointed the leading country along with Thailand for developing the “ASEAN Competence Standard for MICE & Event Professionals” as agreed upon under the ASEAN Mutual Recognition of Tourism Professionals (MRA-TP). ASEAN MRA-TP’s function is to support the mobility of professional manpower in the tourism sector in ASEAN, resources and institutional affairs’ deputy at the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry, Diah Martini Mohamad Paham, said. “We know that we are currently within AEC (ASEAN Economic Community), wherein there is a collective ASEAN MRA-TP agreement between AMS (ASEAN Member States),” she noted during the “ASEAN MICE Toolboxes National Convention”…