All ASEAN Member States (AMSs)  have  committed to introduce a national competition policy and law (CPL) by 2015. This is to ensure a level  playing field and  develop a  culture  of  fair business competition for enhanced regional economic performance in the long run.

In  August  2007, the  ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) endorsed the establishment of ASEAN Experts Group on Competition (AEGC) as a regional forum to discuss and cooperate in competition policy and law. AEGC has completed the first edition of “Handbook on Competition Policy and Law in  ASEAN for  Business” which was launched at the 42nd AEM Meeting in August 2010.

This updated “Handbook on Competition Policy and Law in ASEAN for Business 2013”, released this year, captures the progress that has been made in advancing the development of competition policy and law in AMSs. It will help business to  be aware and  understand the  important developments and differences in ASEAN competition laws.

The rationale for the creation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is obvious. Put together, the 10 member states – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam - form a global powerhouse.

The statistics to back up this assertion are numerous. Covering a land area of almost 4.5 million kilometres (3 percent of the planet’s total land area) and with a total population of over 600 million (almost 9 percent of the world’s population), the ASEAN nations had a combined nominal gross domestic product....

Provides knowledge for ASEAN to develop outreach strategies that can ensure the ASEAN Community Building initiative enjoys a more effective method of communications with both ASEAN general public and the business sector

ISBN 978-602-7643-30-7

The Declaration is a landmark document that establishes a framework for human rights cooperation in the region and contribute to the ASEAN community building process.

ISBN 978-602-7643-39-0

The ASEAN Economic Community Chartbook 2012 presents a graphical overview of selected macroeconomic indicators in ASEAN relative to its trading partners. The Chartbook 2012 includes more than 50 charts describing key macroeconomic trends, including economic growth, trade, investment and other indicators of economic integration.

ISBN 978-602-7643-16-1

Malaysia's Health Minister Dato' Sri Liow Tiong lai launched the 4th conference on Traditional Medicine ini ASEAN Countries on 26-28 November 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The confrence was co-sponsored by the Nippon Foundation and the Ministry of Health Malaysia in cooperation with ASEAN Secretariat, and attended by around 300 participants. it carried the theme "Towards Harmonisation of Traditional Medicine Practices."

ISSN 2301-6809

The Millennium Development Goals mirror ASEAN’s commitment to building a caring and sharing Community by 2015 and present a set of goals and targets for improving wellbeing and reducing poverty in its broadest sense that are in line with the purposes of ASEAN.

ISBN 978-602-7643-08-6

The Framework Action Plan aims to assist ASEAN Member States (AMS) in achieving the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) goals as reflected on the relevant Strategic Objectives and Action Lines of the ASCC Blueprint and to assist the AMS in their collaboration on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (RDPE), and reaffirming the core elements of the ASCC’s Plan of Action of the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP 2004-2010).

ISBN 978-602-7643-05-5

Repository Matrix of Legislations and Policies on Migrant Workers of ASEAN Member States

ISBN 978-602-7643-31-4

With a combined GDP of US$2.1 trillion, a wealth of natural resources and an enterprising and increasingly well educated workforce, the ten member states that make up ASEAN possess the necessary assets to become a pillar of the global economic structure.

In spite of the severe uncertainties elsewhere internationally, Southeast Asia continues to display robust business expansion and investment opportunities in many sectors. The Asian Development Bank forecasts economic growth of 5.2% for the Region in 2012, compared to 4.2% in 2011.

The ASEAN Leaders have agreed to the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and to the transformation of ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods, services, investment, skilled labour, and freer flow of capital.

In their Declaration on the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint (AEC Blueprint) in Singapore in November 2007, the ASEAN Leaders agreed that all AMSs will endeavour to introduce competition policy by 2015.

ISBN 978-602-7643-34-5

The Handbook provides basic information on cooperation tools including mutual legal assistance and extradition as well as guidance on how these tools can be used most effectively in the specific context of regional and international cooperation in TIP cases.

ISBN 978-602-8411-67-7

Initiative to establish the network to develop a cooperative programme between the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW) and the ASEAN Confederation of Women’s Organisations (ACWO) in addressing poverty.

ISBN 978-602-7643-32-1