KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 -- The ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) will organise ASEAN’s 54th Anniversary Virtual Symposium on ‘ASEAN Economic and Social Regional Integration in the New Normal’ on Aug 27.
It will be co-organised with the ASEAN Secretariat and the ASEAN Committee in Tokyo, a committee of 10 Japan-based ASEAN ambassadors, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (TBC) and the International Peace Foundation.
At the symposium, 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Eric S. Maskin Adams, University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University, will deliver a keynote speech.
It will be followed by a panel discussion among prominent officials from ASEAN, including the ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General for Community and Corporate Affairs, and experts from universities in Japan.
They will exchange viewpoints and discuss globalisation and inequality in ASEAN under the new normal, according to a statement.
AJC is an intergovernmental organisation established by the ASEAN Member States and Japan in 1981, with objectives to promote trade, investment, tourism as well as people-to-people exchanges between the ASEAN Member States and Japan.
AJC has been organising the ASEAN Anniversary Symposium since 2017 to commemorate the establishment of ASEAN, bringing together ASEAN stakeholders and the Japanese public and private sectors to discuss the current issues in ASEAN.
More details at https://www.asean.or.jp/en/
-- BERNAMA
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