Asean News Update August 2024

1 Compiled by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. [...] Please note that links to third-party websites were checked for accuracy in the month of the updates. No responsibility can be taken for subsequent changes on these websites. ASEAN News Update August 2024 Commentary 16th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting, Related Meetings (5-9 August 2024) 27th ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Meeting (15 August [...] Please note that links to third-party websites were checked for accuracy in the month of the updates. No responsibility can be taken for subsequent changes on these websites. Commentary Asean needs its own development bank The Straits Times, Vikram Khanna, 13 August 2024 Philippines says ASEAN remains soft on China over maritime row, risks irrelevance South China Morning Post, 28 August 20 [...] Special Session Health Ministerial Meeting3 Compiled by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. [...] Please note that links to third-party websites were checked for accuracy in the month of the updates. No responsibility can be taken for subsequent changes on these websites. 27th ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of Ministries of Foreign Affairs Meeting (15 August 2024) ● Joint Press Statement of the Twenty-Seventh ASEAN Directors-Gene [...] UK News, 27 August 2024 Canada-Asean FTA in sight by 'next year' Bangkok Post, 22 August 2024 Japan, Indonesia and others agree to build sustainable fuel supply chain Nikkei Asian Review, Nana Shibata, 21 August 2024 Australia-ASEAN maritime cooperation: A focus on the whole risks losing sight of the parts Lowy Institute (The Interpreter), Thu Nguyen Hoang Anh, 20 August 2024 (Chin [...] Please note that links to third-party websites were checked for accuracy in the month of the updates. No responsibility can be taken for subsequent changes on these websites. Japan to coordinate decarbonisation plans with ASEAN, Australia Nikkei Asian Review, Shunsuke Ushigome, 17 August 2024 ASEAN needs more than security from the United States East Asia Forum, Luke C. [...] Hahn, 10 August 2024 Hong Kong has ASEAN backing to join RCEP trade pact: John Lee Nikkei Asian Review, Lien Hoang, 6 August 2024 Environment/Energy Huge potential for clean energy held up by slow integration of South-east Asian grids The Straits Times, Tan Hui Yee, 26 August 2024 Asean targets haze-free peatlands by 2030 Bangkok Post, 18 August 2024 ASEAN eyes nuclear energy, but ai [...] Please note that links to third-party websites were checked for accuracy in the month of the updates. No responsibility can be taken for subsequent changes on these websites. ASEAN Secretariat News, 22 August 2024 AICHR hosts dialogue on realising Southeast Asia as a Torture-Free region ASEAN Secretariat News, 22 August 2024 ASEAN Economic Community Singapore sees ASEAN as a bright spot in