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Young African Leaders Initiative, Fulbright Scholarship, United States Cultural Exchange Programs The Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative , also known as YSEALI (pronounced / w aɪ ˈ s iː l i / ), is a highly-competitive cultural exchange program for Southeast Asian emerging leaders sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Education and Cultural ...
SSEAYP started in January 1974 based on Joint Statements issued between Japan and the five ASEAN countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined in 1985. Viet Nam joined the programme in 1995 while the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar joined in 1998, Cambodia in 2000.
Timeline Milestone November 1965 A historic meeting of education ministers of Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam, and United States government representative paved the way for an interim Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat (SEAMES) to be formed to draw up priority projects for the region, including instituting a center for graduate study and research ...
Myanmar sent a bureaucrat to Monday's meeting, accepting for the first time ASEAN's invitation for it to send a "non-political" representative to meetings from which its top generals are barred ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [d] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [e] 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). [14]
Some ASEAN countries, including current chair Indonesia, have been frustrated with Myanmar's refusal to cooperate with a peace plan forged in 2021 that called for an immediate end to the violence ...
Higher education in Myanmar has experienced a large expansion since 1988, although ranks as one of the lowest globally for universities. Due to the student protests in the 8888 uprising, the Myanmar government closed down all universities for two years. Additional student protests in 1996 and 1998 caused all universities to be closed for ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Finding unity over how to deal with Myanmar's junta continued to evade Southeast Asian nations on Thursday, as foreign ministers meeting in Jakarta struggled to agree on a ...