Culture and values central to creating deeper partnership
ASEAN is back on Australia’s agenda, having been neglected in recent times. The media release for the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper states that Australia’s first foreign policy priority is to ‘increase [its] efforts to ensure [Australia] remain[s] a leading partner for Southeast Asia’. - by Anthony Milner
ASEAN's Five Key Challenges
There are five key challenges that call for the galvanised efforts of all Asean member states. These are of such magnitude and consequence which no single nation can adequately respond on its own. An article by Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, published in New Straits Times.
The meanings behind the words
More Asean terminology arose from attempts to bring Asean to the people of south-east Asia. Asean’s albatross had long been the closed intergovernmental nature of its being, operating essentially for elites to sustain the status quo.
Date: 4 June 2017
Mengurang Jurang Perbezaan
TAHUN ini merupakan ulang tahun ke-60 hubungan dua hala Malaysia-Amerika Syarikat (AS) yang terjalin sejak 1957. Malaysia turut mempelopori usaha memupuk hubungan erat negara-negara ASEAN dengan pentadbiran Presiden Trump selaras dengan peranan Malaysia sebagai negara penyelaras dialog ASEAN-AS.
Date: 7 May 2017