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The Fourteenth East Asia Summit was held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 4, 2019. The East Asia Summit is an annual meeting of national leaders from the East Asian region and adjoining countries. It (EAS) has evolved as a forum for strategic dialogues and cooperation on political, security, and economic issues of common regional concern ...
The 14th ASEAN summit was held from February to March 2009 in Hua Hin, Thailand. It was originally scheduled for December 2008, but was postponed due to the 2008 Thai political crisis .
He also gave a speech to the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit and confirmed that New Zealand would be participating in the ASEAN-New Zealand Commemorative Leaders' Summit in Malaysia in November 2025. [18] 11 Samoa: Apia: 25–26 October 2024 Luxon attended the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. [19]
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
On 2 August 2019, series of small bombs have detonated over five locations throughout Bangkok Metropolitan Area. [4] The blasts location included Chong Nonsi BTS Station, near the King Power Mahanakhon tower, the Chaengwattana Government Complex, the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters, and inside a branch of Miniso; a utility goods store at Siam Square One.
On 24 February 1976, the treaty was signed into force by the leaders of the original members of ASEAN. [1] Other members acceded to it upon or before joining the bloc. It was amended on 15 December 1987 by a protocol to open the document for accession by states outside Southeast Asia, [2] and again on 25 July 1998, to condition such accession on the consent of all member states. [3]
Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) is a political, economic, and cultural organization among Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. At the special ASEAN Summit on SARS, held in Bangkok on 29 April 2003, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra raised the idea of establishing what was then called the “Economic ...
In 1976, the Melanesian state of Papua New Guinea was accorded observer status. [14] The bloc then grew when Brunei Darussalam became the sixth member after it joined on 8 January 1984, barely a week after the country became independent on 1 January. [15] Vietnam became an ASEAN observer state in 1993 [16] and the seventh full member on 28 July ...