Then Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman (left) meeting with then US President John F Kennedy at the White House, on Oct 3, 1961. Dr Khoman was the last surviving ‘founding father’ of ASEAN.

The five founding fathers who gave birth to ASEAN were Adam Malik of Indonesia, Narciso Ramos of the Philippines, Abdul Razak of Malaysia, Tharat Khoman of Thailand and S. Rajaratnam of Singapore.

The Kingdom of Thailand has lost one of its famous sons, Dr Thanat Khoman, former Foreign Minister and, until just recently, the last surviving founding father of Asean. Dr Thanat died last week ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was founded based on the ideas of representatives from the five founding ASEAN countries.. The representatives came from ...

Thanat Khoman, the last surviving "Founding Father" of Asean, has died at Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok at the age of 101. He passed away at 3.49pm on Thursday, two months before his 102nd ...

As Asean celebrates its Golden Jubilee, it is opportune for us to take a step back and ask our people what they want of the regional bloc in the next 50 years before striving forward together as ...