ASEAN Day Message 2009 by Minister of Education
06 August 2009
2009 ASEAN DAY MESSAGE TO ALL SCHOOLS, JUNIOR
COLLEGES AND CENTRALISED INSTITUTE
Principals, teachers and students,
Today we commemorate ASEAN Day, ahead of the actual date on
8 August. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was
established in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and
Thailand to push for economic growth, social progress, and cultural
development in the region. Since then, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,
Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam have joined ASEAN. Today, ASEAN brings
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