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 ...

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 ...

The Philippines founded Asean with Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in 1967. Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia joined in the following years.

Kao said in his welcoming remarks that Vietnam's accession in 1995 represented a critical step towards realizing the ASEAN founding fathers' vision of a unified Southeast Asia -- maritime and ...

"It is not going to be pleasant for Timor-Leste because they're applying to be in the ASEAN, and we are one of the founding fathers of the ASEAN," Remulla said in a March 25 interview.

On that morning this year, "Secretary-General of Asean Dr. Kao Kim Hourn officiated the celebration at the Asean Hqts/Asean Secretariat. Celebrated annually, August 8 Asean Day "marks the founding of ...