This presentation is created to be used in an on-line teaching course of Southeast Asian Studies. This course is offered only to a group of wonderful students of Lodi High School, Wisconsin, USA.

1. ASEAN
AN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATION

2. Establishment

3. Establishment
Established on 8 August
1967 in Bangkok, Thailand
ASEAN Declaration
(Bangkok Declaration)
Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand
Brunei (1984), Viet Nam
(1995), Lao, Myanmar (1997),
Cambodia (1999)

4. Member States

5. Member States
Brunei
Darussalam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Lao PDR
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
600 million
people

6. What is ASEAN for?

7. What is ASEAN for?
Accelerate economic growth,
social progress, and cultural
development
Promote regional peace and
stability
Promote active collaboration
and mutual assistance in
economic, social, cultural,
technical, scientific and
administration

8. Aim

9. Aim
Balanced diversity
Beneficial unity
Further integrate into
ASEAN Community by
2015

10. AEC: ASEAN Economic Community

11. AEC: ASEAN Economic Community
A single market and production base
A highly competitive economic region
A region of equitable economic
development
A region of fully integrated into the
global economy
A region with free movement of goods,
services, investment, skilled labour, and
free flow of capital

12. Mutual Recognition Arrangement

13. Mutual Recognition Arrangement
Engineering Services
Nursing Services
Architectural Services
Surveying Qualifications
Accountancy Services
Dental Practitioners
Medical Practitioners

14. Preparing for ASEAN

15. Preparing for ASEAN
Language skill (English, local
dialect, Chinese)
Skilled Labour
Regional investment
Technology

16. News Article
Read the article on ASEAN
from CNN
Think-Pair-Share
HTTP://EDITION.CNN.COM/2013/08/14/OPINION/ASEAN-DREAM-KHANNA/INDEX.HTML?IREF=ALLSEARCH

17. Assignment

18. Assignment
A 700-word essay on
“Why Southeast Asia
matters?”

19. References
http://visasblog.y-axis.com/?attachment_id=694
http://www.aseansec.org/18619.htm
http://www.thai-aec.com