Preliminary List of Dialogues:
January–June 2008
January
- Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Workshop on Irregular Migration
Date: January 7–9, 2008
Location: Malaysia
http://www.asia-alliance.org/index.php?q=workshop/workshop-series-workshop-20072008 - 4th US-Japan-China Trilateral Conference
Date: January 7–9, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
www.jcie.org/archives.html - 11th Regional Outlook Forum
Date: January 8, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.iseas.edu.sg/7jan08a.pdf - Japan–East Asia Dialogue: Cooperation in Environment and Energy
Date: June 9–10, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.gfj.jp/eng/dialogue/28/cp.pdf - ASEAN High-Level Meeting on Good Practices in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Reporting and Follow-Up
Date: January 14–15, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - Japan-Mekong Foreign Ministers Meeting
Date: January 16, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2007/12/1176851_862.html - Special Meeting of the ASEAN Directors-General
Date: January 16–18, 2008
Location: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - International Conference on EU-Asia Relations
Date: January 17, 2008
Location: Venice, Italy
http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/manifestations/interventions___l_ext_rieur_1042052171194/publi_P_fn_conf_venise___1209552301618 - Sentosa Roundtable on Asian Security 2008
Date: January 17–18, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.spf.org/e/project/2008/a3_06e.html - Mekong-Japan Foreign Ministers Meeting
Date: January 18, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/mekong/meet0801.html - 1st Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Economic Officials of the 39th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (SEOM 1/39)
Date: January 19–22, 2008
Location: Baguio City, Philippines
http://www.aseansec.org/AR-08.pdf - 16th Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum
Date: January 20–25, 2008
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.appf.org.pe/meeting/sixteen/JointCommunique.pdf - 29th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation
Date: January 21–22, 2008
Location: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - Conference on the India-China-USA Triangle
Date: January 21–23, 2008
Location: Kerala, India
http://www.cicir.ac.cn/tbscms/zhuye/readnews_public.asp?rid=xsjl_en&no=6&sign=9gaAtEqmGRX9KjaSeWJs0JYnks81I8/ http://www.scmsgroup.org/pgdm/html/conference1.htm - 1st APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting of 2008
Date: January 21–23, 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.abaconline.org/v4/download.php?ContentID=4235 - 2nd Japan-US-Asia Dialogue: An East Asian Community and the United States
Date: January 22, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.gfj.jp/eng/dialogue/27/main.pdf - Seminar on the Promotion of Accession to the International Counter-Terrorism Conventions and Protocols
Date: January 22–23, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/terrorism/state0801.html - 1st Meeting of the ASEAN Nuclear Energy Safety Sub-Sector Network
Date: January 22–23, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.ugm.cl/portal-corea/pdf/11-ASEAN-Plus-3_Statements.pdf - 1st Regular Meeting of 2008 of the Advisory Group on APEC Financial System Capacity Building
Date: January 23, 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.abaconline.org/v4/download.php?ContentID=4195 - Asia Regional Task Force on Urban Risk Reduction Brainstorming Meeting
Date: January 23–24, 2008
Location: Kobe, Japan
http://www.adrc.or.jp/events/RTFmeeting20080130/PDF_Presentations/RTF-URR_Flyer.pdf - ASEAN Workshop on Forging Cooperation among Anti-Terror Units
Date: January 23–24, 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - UN Regional Forum on Bioenergy Development
Date: January 23–25, 2008 - 6th Meeting of the ASEAN Expert Group on Food Safety
Date: January 23–25, 2008
Location: Makati City, Philippines
http://www.aseanfoodsafetynetwork.net/EventMeetingDetail.php?EMId=59 - 9th Project Steering Committee Meeting for the East Asia Emergency Rice Reserve Pilot Project
- Date: January 24–25, 2008
Location: Xiamen, China
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - ASEAN Foreign Ministers Session at the World Economic Forum
Date: January 25, 2008
Location: Davos, Switzerland
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - 2nd Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Environment Ministers Meeting
Date: January 28–29, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/Second-GMS-Environment-Meeting/default.asp - ASEAN Infrastructure Financing Mechanism Working Level Meeting
Date: January 28–29, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - 7th Senior Officials Meeting on Energy+3 (SOME+3) Energy Policy Governing Group; 6th ASEAN+3 Energy Forum; 5th ASEAN+3 Oil Market Forum; 6th ASEAN+3 Oil Stockpiling Forum; 6th East Asia Summit Energy Cooperation Task Force Meeting
Date: January 28–30, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - 2nd Workshop on ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network Task Force and Working Group Development
Date: January 28–30, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - Northeast Asian Network 2008
Date: January 29, 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
http://annals.yonsei.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=302
http://www.mofat.go.kr/english/press/speech/minister/index.jsp - Working Group on Zone of Peace Freedom and Neutrality/Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
Date: January 29, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - 2nd Working Group on the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement
Date: January 29–31, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm - 4th Regional Dialogue of Air Quality Management Initiatives and Programs in Asia
Date: January 30–31, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/article-72366.html - 3rd ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)
Date: January 30–31, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/1-2008.htm
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.unescap.org/unis/press/2008/jan/n02.asp
February
- 4th Meeting of the Track II Study on the Feasibility of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Arrangement for East Asia
Date: February 1–2, 2008
Location: New Delhi, India
http://www.newasiaforum.org/pb33.pdf - 15th International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections Asia Pacific Congress
Date: February 3–6, 2008
Location: Dubai
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/Display/ConfDisplay.asp?ConfNbr=6362 - 5th ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)
Date: February 4, 2008
Location: Moscow, Russia
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 10th Asian Security Conference: Asian Security in the 21st Century
Date: February 5–7, 2008
Location: New Delhi, India
http://www.idsa.in/10ASCmain.htm - 8th ASEAN Capital Markets Forum
Date: February 8, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/?catid=1&newsid=35841 - 19th Working Committee on Financial Services Liberalization under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services
Date: February 11, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - ASEAN Workshop: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Control and Eradication
Date: February 13–15, 2008
Location: Bali, Indonesia
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/Highly-Pathogenic-Avian-Influenza/default.asp - ASEAN Regional Workshop on Gender Equality Legislation
Date: February 13–15, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 4th ROK-US-Japan Security Workshop
Date: February 18–19, 2008
Location: Jeju Island, Korea
http://kida.re.kr/eng/cooperation/cooperation_03.htm - ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat
Date: February 19–20, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 3rd East Asian Symposium on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Date: February 19–21, 2008
Location: Kunitachi, Japan
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/seeps/meeting/eas3/EAS3-program.pdf - 1st APEC Senior Officials Meeting and Related Meetings
Date: February 19–March 3, 2008
Location: Lima, Peru
http://www.pecc.org/calendar.htm
http://www.apec.org/apec/news___media/media_releases/030308_pe_som1workplan.html - Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO) 3rd General Meeting
Date: February 20–22, 2008
Location: Solo/Surakarta, Indonesia
http://www.narbo.jp/narbo/event/index.htm
- 6th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting on Counter-Terrorism and
Transnational Crime
Date: February 21–22, 2008
Location: Semarang, Indonesia
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=jfS8oGMR3lk%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - Asian Bond Markets Initiative Working Group and Focal Group Meetings
Date: February 25–26, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 3rd Working Group on the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement
Date: February 25–27, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 30th Meeting of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Task Force
Date: February 26, 2008
Location: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - 9th East Asian Development Network (EADN) Annual Forum
Date: February 28–29, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.eadn.org/2007conference.htm - UNESCAP/ITC High-Level Consultation on Trade in Services for Regional Integration
Date: February 28–29, 2008
Location: Macao, China
http://www.unescap.org/tid/projects/tradeservice.asp - Special Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Date: February 28–29, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm - Chiang Mai Initiative Task Force for Multilateralisation Meeting; ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies Working Group Meeting
Date: February 28–March 1, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/2-2008.htm
March
- ASEM Senior Officials Meeting
Date: March 2–3, 2008
Location: Bled, Slovenia
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - 9th ASEAN-China Joint Cooperation Committee and Working Group Meeting
Date: March 3–5, 2008
Location: Chongqing, China
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - 2nd ARF Peacekeeping Experts Meeting
Date: March 4–6, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=cP%2bbpKLW3KE%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - 2nd Meeting of the Committee under the Conference of the Parties to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution; 1st Meeting of the Technical Working Group on Transboundary Haze Pollution in the Mekong Sub-Region
Date: March 4–7, 2008
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - ADB-OECD Expert Meeting on Beneficial Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation
Date: March 5, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/events/2008/ADB-OECD/default.asp - 35th Meeting of the APEC Energy Working Group
Date: March 5–6, 2008
Location: Iquitos, Peru
http://www.ewg.apec.org/index.cfm?event=object.showContent&objectID=085456BA-A0BB-FD2A-04C05CB060B10276 - A New Nuclear World Order: Asian Perspectives
Date: March 6–7, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/cag/Past_Events.aspx - Rising Asia: The Next 10 Years
Date: March 10, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.siiaonline.org/?q=events/rising-asia-the-next-10-years - Joint Conference on European and Asian Integration: Achievements and Challenges
Date: March 10, 2008
Location: Brussels, Belgium
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/European-Asian-Integration/default.asp - 2nd Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Economic Officials of the 39th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (SEOM 2/39)
Date: March 10–12, 2008
Location: Siem Reap, Cambodia
http://www.dav.gov.vn/DesktopModules/VietTotal.Documents/DownloadAttachment.aspx?&AttachmentId=272 - 28th Session of the Standing Committee of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement
Date:March 12–13, 2008
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
http://www.unescap.org/tid/mtg/ba28.asp - 1st Meeting on the Drafting of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint
Date: March 12–13, 2008
Location: Thailand
http://thailand.prd.go.th/view_inside.php?id=3228 - ARF Workshop on Confidence Building Measures and Preventive Diplomacy in Asia
and Europe
Date: March 12–14, 2008
Location: Berlin, Germany
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Y2kd0VgXDmQ%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - Asia Europe Economic Forum 2008
Date: March 13, 2008
Location: Brussels, Belgium
http://www.bruegel.org/Public/SimplePage.php?depthStatus=3&ID=8459&parentID=1156 - 43rd Southeast Asian Ministers of Education (SEAMEO) Council Conference; 3rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Education (ASED)
Date: March 13–15, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.seameo.org/vl/library/DLWelcome/Publications/report/seamec/43mc08/43mc08-Proceeding.html - Asian Mediation Retreat 2008
Date: March 15–17, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.ciis.org.cn/en/newsevents2.asp?NewsID=20080328120310486&ClassName=Conferences - Forum on Clean Energy, Good Governance and Regulation
Date: March 16–18, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/cag/News.aspx - 3rd Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum
Date: March 17–19, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.uncrd.or.jp/env/est/docs/Press-release-3rd-Regional-EST-Forum-1Nov07.pdf - 11th Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM); 2nd ACDM+3 Senior Officials Meeting
Date: March 17–19, 2008
Location: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - 1st Meeting of Japan-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group
Date: March 18, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2008/3/0310.html - Regional Symposium on Regional Disaster Management Support System—Satellite Information Access Mechanism
Date: March 19–21, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.unescap.org/icstd/space/workshops/2008/Regional_DMSS/index.asp - 4th Working Group on the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement
Date: March 19–21, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - Northeast Asia Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation Expert Group Meeting and 13th Senior Officials Meeting
Date: March 20–21, 2008
Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
http://www.neaspec.org/som13.asp - 4th ASEAN+3 Natural Resources Energy and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Forum
Date: March 20–21, 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - Tokyo Peacebuilders Symposium 2008: Peacebuilding Experience and Knowledge from Asia to the World
Date: March 24–25, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/un/pko/symposium0803.html - 3rd Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Asia Pacific Cooperation for Energy Security
Date: March 24–26, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.cscap.ca/Energy_Security_SG_3rd_Meeting_Report.pdf - 14th ASEAN-China Senior Officials Consultations (SOC); 3rd ASEAN-China SOC on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
Date: March 24–28, 2008
Location: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - PECC-ABAC Conference: Demographic Change and International Labor Mobility in the Asia Pacific Region—Implications for Business and Cooperation
Date: March 25–26, 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
http://www.pecc.org/labor/seoul-conference.htm - 3rd Customs Enforcement and Compliance Working Group
Date: March 25–27, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - East Asia Forum Dialogue
Date: March 26, 2008
Location: Sydney, Australia
http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/events/calendar/more.php?id=199 - East Asia Workshop on Transparency and Integrity in the Water Sector
Date: March 27–28, 2008
Location: Mandaluyong City, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/East-Asia-Workshop/default.asp - World Bank Workshop on Meeting the 2015 Regulatory Challenge for Cambodia–Lao PDR–Myanmar–Vietnam
Date: March 27–28, 2008
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
http://www.aseansec.org/3-2008.htm - 1st Official Meeting for the East Asia Summit (EAS) Environment Ministers Meeting and
1st ASEAN-Japan Environment Dialogue
Date: March 28, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.nea.gov.vn/mme/EASMME/som1.html - 3rd Greater Mekong Subregion Summit
Date: March 30–31, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/3rd-GMS-Summit/default.asp
April
- 12th Japan-US-China Trilateral Security Conference
Date: April 1–2, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.rips.or.jp/from_rips/seminar/us_china.html - ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting (AFDM); Informal and Formal ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meetings+3 (AFDM+3); 12th ASEAN Finance Ministers Meeting (AFMM) and Retreat
Date: April 1–4, 2008
Location: Da Nang, Viet Nam
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - 2nd Meeting of the (Renewed) Study Group on Facilitating Maritime Security Cooperation
Date: April 2–3, 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
http://www.cscap.ca/Maritime_Cooperation_SG.html - 5th Disaster Management Practitioners Workshop
Date: April 2–4, 2008
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
http://www.jtic.org/en/jtic/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=90
- ARF Intersessional Support Group on Confidence Building Measures and Preventive Diplomacy; ARF Defence Officials Dialogue
Date: April 2–4, 2008
Location: Ottawa, Canada
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=GtwuWImBQjs%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - Asia-Pacific Water Forum 2nd Meeting of the Regional Water Knowledge Hubs Network
Date: April 2–5, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/APWF-Khubs-Meeting/default.asp - Williamsburg Conference: The Role of Islam in Multi-Cultural Asia & the Changing Role of the United States in the Region
Date: April 3–6, 2008
Location: Bali, Indonesia
http://www.asiasociety.org/policy_business/williamsburg08.pdf - Micro-Economic Foundations of Economic Policy Performance in Asia
Date: April 3–4, 2008
Location: New Delhi, India
http://www.eaber.org/intranet/publish/get_content.php?pid=10&name=NCAER-EABER_Programme_3-4april2008.pdf - 6th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on Counter Terrorism
Date: April 3–4, 2008
Location: Madrid, Spain
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - Joint Roundtable Discussion on the Promotion and Protection on the Rights of Women
and Children
Date: April 7–8, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - 4th Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) on Transboundary Haze Pollution
Date: April 8, 2008
Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia
www.aseansec.org/21458.htm - ARF Seminar on Anti-Personnel Mines
Date: April 8–10, 2008
Location: Penang, Malaysia
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yVij0o%2b5f9U%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - 13th High Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration
Date: April 9–10, 2008
Location: Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam
http://www.aseansec.org/21467.htm - Financing Village-Level Energy for Development in Asia and the Pacific Region
Date: April 9–11, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/Financing-Village-Energy/ - 10th ASEAN-US Informal Coordinating Mechanism
Date: April 10–11, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - 5th United States Asia Pacific Council Conference: New Challenges in a Changing Environment
Date: April 11, 2008
Location: Washington DC, USA
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events/past-east-west-center-events/?class_call=view&conf_ID=1427&mode=view - The 1st Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Forum on Energy Security
Date: April 11–12, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.asem7.cn/misc/2008-05/13/content_45870.htm - Boao Forum for Asia 2008: Green Asia—Moving Towards Win-Win Through Changes
Date: April 11–13, 2008
Location: Boao, Hainan, China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90002/93786/index.html - 4th Network of East Asian Think-Tanks (NEAT) Working Group Meeting on East Asian Financial Cooperation
Date: April 12–13, 2008
Location: Shanghai, China
http://www.neat.org.cn/english/hzdten/contentshow.php?content_id=103 - 2nd Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers
Date: April 14–18, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.idss.edu.sg/networking/view_day.asp?id=736&view_date=14-April-2008 - 2nd ARF Seminar on Energy Security
Date: April 15–17, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=HspCKDnpYHI%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - Joint Thematic Working Group Meeting of the Regional Forum on Environment and Health in Southeast and East Asian Countries
Date: April 18, 2008
Location: Jeju, South Korea
http://www.environment-health.asia/userfiles/file/EH_TWG2_MR%20without%20e-mail(1).pdf
- BIMP-EAGA Regional Environment Program Inception Meeting
Date: April 18–19, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/BIMP-EAGA-REP/default.asp - US-Japan Workshop on the Co-benefits of Climate Actions in Asia
Date: April 22, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/cp/activity21.html - 13th ASEAN-India Working Group, 10th ASEAN-India Joint Cooperation Committee, 10th ASEAN-India Senior Officials Meeting
Date:April 22–24, 2008
Location: Bali, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - Conference on Key Development Issues in Asia
Date: April 24, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.adbi.org/event/2518.key.development.issues.asia/ - Dialogue among APEC Economies, Business Community, and Key International and Regional Partners on Emergency Preparedness
Date: April 24–25, 2008
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monrenet/default.aspx?tabid=259&idmid=&ItemID=43240 - 64th Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Date: April 24–30, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.unescap.org/64/ - 5th Asian Senior-Level Talks on Nonproliferation
Date: April 25, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.cistec.or.jp/english/service/inter.html - PECC Regional Institutional Architecture Task Force Meeting
Date: April 25, 2008
Location: Washington DC, USA
http://www.pecc.org/ - Experts Workshop on Future Scenarios of East Asia
Date: April 25, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm
- 21st Meeting of the ASEAN Crisis Communications Team
Date: April 25, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2008: Energy Security—Opportunities through Regional Energy Cooperation and Public-Private Partnerships
Date: April 27, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.unescap.org/apbf/APBF2008-Outcomes.pdf - ASEAN Special Senior Officials Meeting
Date: April 27–29, 2008
Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/4-2008.htm - 3rd Northeast Asia Forum
Date: April 28, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.china.org.cn/international/conferences/2008-04/29/content_15033959.htm - 2nd Meeting on the Drafting of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint
Date: April 28–30, 2008
Location: Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
http://www.mfa.gov.bn/diplomatic_calendar/index.htm - 2008 Energy Security Conference: Opportunities and Constraints—Prospects for Russian Oil and Gas Supply to Asia
Date: April 29–30, 2008
Location: Washington DC, USA
http://nbr.org/programs/cass/ESConference08.htm
May
- 15th ASEAN-ISIS Colloquium on Human Rights
Date: May 1–2, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.aseanhrmech.org/news/human-rights-advocates-discuss-hr-body.html
- ARF Desktop Exercise on Disaster Relief
Date: May 1–2, 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=shFUjZP%2blG4%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009
- The Experiments with Democracy in East and Southeast Asia: Two Decades After
Date: May 2–3, 2008
Location: Hong Kong
http://www.hku.hk/cas/sem_intlconf.html - ASEAN Economic Ministers Retreat
Date: May 2–3, 2008
Location: Bali, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/21498.htm - 11th ASEAN+3 Ministers Meeting; ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting; ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Meeting; 8th Trilateral Finance Ministers Meeting among China, Japan and Korea
Date: May 3–4, 2008
Location: Madrid, Spain
http://www.aseansec.org/21502.htm http://www.aseansec.org/21508.htm http://www.mof.go.jp/english/if/080504joint_message.htm - 41st Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meeting
Date:May 3–6, 2008
Location: Madrid, Spain
http://www.adb.org/AnnualMeeting/2008/default.asp - 6th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Development and Planning
Date: May 7–8, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting (SOM); ASEAN+3 SOM; East Asia Summit Ad Hoc SOM Consultations
Date: May 5–8, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - 5th Meeting of the Working Group on Energy Planning and Policy
Date: May 7–8, 2008
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.keei.re.kr/web_keei/en_news.nsf/frame.htm?ReadForm&url=/web_keei/en_news.nsf/mainV/C94B3519C5E2F3E3492574A40029D06E?OpenDocument - 6th ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting (SLOM) and SLOM+3; 20th ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting (ALMM) and ALMM+3
Date: May 7–8, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.aseansec.org/21543.pdf - 5th ARF Security Policy Conference; ARF Defence Officials Dialogue and Meeting
Date: May 7–9, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseanregionalforum.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=brz2KBWoSfU%3d&tabid=66&mid=1009 - 7th Asian Disaster Preparedness Center Regional Consultative Committee Meeting on Disaster Management
Date: May 8–10, 2008
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
http://www.unisdr.org/asiapacific/events/v.php?id=1623
- NEAT Working Group Meeting on East Asian Investment Cooperation
Date: May 9–10, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.neat.org.cn/english/hzdten/contentshow.php?content_id=105 - Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions, and Agency
Date: May 9–10, 2008
Location: Hong Kong
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/ - 21st ASEAN-US Dialogue
Date: May 10, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - East Asia Investment Forum 2008: East Asia Investment Cooperation in the Context of Global Financial Turbulence
Date: May 11, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.isis.org.my/research.htm - 2nd APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting
Date: May 12–14, 2008
Location: Moscow, Russia
http://www.apec.org/apec/business_resources/apec_business_advisory.html - 5th ASEAN-Canada Dialogue
Date: May 12–14, 2008
Location: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
http://www.aseansec.org/21539.htm - Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Related Natural Disasters in East Asia
Date: May 13–14, 2008
Location: Makati, Philippines
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21851697~menuPK:34482~pagePK:2524753~piPK:51421526~theSitePK:4607,00.html - 2nd Meeting of the ASEAN Nuclear Energy Safety Sub-Sector Network
Date: May 13–14, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - Women’s Forum Asia (Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society)
Date: May 15–17, 2008
Location: Shanghai, China
http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/manifestations/interventions___l_ext_rieur_1042052171194/publi_P_conf_asie_womensforum_1210166203484 - Workshop on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Date: May 15–17, 2008
Location: Bali, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm
- Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting
Date: May 19, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/21556.htm - 3rd Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Forum
Date: May 19–21, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.ciis.org.cn/en/newsevents2.asp?NewsID=20080625095859894&ClassName=Conferences - 2nd APEC Senior Officials Meeting and Related Meetings
Date: May 20–29, 2008
Location: Arequipa, Peru
http://www.apec.org/webapps/events_calendar/1024/events_calendar.php - Seminar on Southeast Asian Trade Security and Sea Routes
Date: May 21, 2008
Location: Shanghai
http://english.sass.org.cn/newsevents/?newstype=0053006A007C0078004A007B006A007300790078&newsid=003C00380035 - 2nd GMS Development Dialogue on Climate Change (Public-Private Partnerships)
Date: May 21, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/Mekong/2008.asp - 22nd ASEAN-Australia Forum
Date: May 22, 2008
Location: Canberra, Australia
http://www.aseansec.org/21577.htm - Financial Market and Ageing in APEC
Date: May 22–23, 2008
Location: Samsung, South Korea
http://www.eastasianet.org/ - The Future of Asia 2008—14th Nikkei International Conference
Date: May 22–23, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/NIKKEI/inasia/future/2008/ - 2nd ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting Working Group on the ASEAN Political Security Community Blueprint
Date: May 22–23, 2008
Location: Medan, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - 7th Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asia Pacific
Date: May 25–26, 2008
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1647/ - Workshop on Changing Interactions between China and Southeast Asia at the Turn of the 21st Century
Date: May 25–27, 2008
Location: Xiamen, China
http://www.kas.de/proj/home/events/73/2/-/-/veranstaltung_id-30757/ - New Energy Forum for Sustainable Environment
Date: May 25–27, 2008
Location: Kyoto, Japan - 28th ASEAN Chiefs of Police Conference (ASEANAPOL)
Date: May 25–29, 2008
Location: Jerudong, Brunei Darussalam
http://www.aseansec.org/21619.htm - 3rd Meeting of the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN)
Date: May 26–27, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.ditjenphka.go.id/news_file/3rd%20ASEAN%20WEN%20report%20-%20FINAL%202008.pdf - 12th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Date: May 26–28, 2008
Location: Malaysia
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - 2nd PECC Seminar on Water Management in Islands, Coastal, and Isolated Areas
Date: May 26–29, 2008
Location: Nouméa, New Caledonia
http://www.pecc.org/water/papers/2008-Noumea-Conclusion-Paper.pdf - 25th Senior Transport Officials Meeting (STOM)
Date: May 27–29, 2008
Location: Cebu, Philippines
http://www.aseanstom25.org/ - 11th Steering Group Meeting of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia
and the Pacific
Date: May 27–28, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/11th-ADB-OECD-AntiCorruption/default.asp - ASEAN-EU Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)
Date: May 27–28, 2008
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - 18th Asian Corporate Conference
Date: May 28–30, 2008
Location: Tianjin, China
http://www.asiasociety.org/conference08/ - Southeast Asia Bioterrorism Workshop: Multi-Sectoral Policy Responses To International Bioterrorism
Date: May 28–30, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.searcct.gov.my/site1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 - Synergy Conference for Regional Organizations on the Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons
Date: May 28–30, 2008
Location: Brussels, Belgium
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm - 29th Session of the Standing Committee of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement
Date: May 29–30, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.unescap.org/tid/mtg/ba29.asp - 11th ASEAN+3 Directors-General Meeting
Date: May 30, 2008
Location: Kyoto, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2008/5/1180515_934.html - 7th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Conference (Shangri-La Dialogue)
Date: May 30–June 1, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.iiss.org/conferences/the-shangri-la-dialogue - APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade
Date: May 31–June 1, 2008
Location: Arequipa, Peru
http://www.apec.org/apec/ministerial_statements/sectoral_ministerial/trade/2008_trade.html
http://www.aseansec.org/5-2008.htm
June
- 29th CSCAP Steering Committee Meeting
Date: June 1–2, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur
http://www.cscap.ca/ - Asia’s Strategic Challenges: In Search of a Common Agenda
Date: June 2–4, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.iiss.org/conferences/asias-strategic-challenges-in-search-of-a-common-agenda/ - 22nd Asia Pacific Roundtable
Date: June 2–5, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.isis.org.my/events.htm#events_recent - Asia Clean Energy Forum 2008: Investing in Solutions that Address Climate Change and Energy Security
Date: June 2–6, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/Documents/events/2008/ACEF/ - Meeting of the SCO Commission of Senior Officials in Charge of Trade and Economic Cooperation
Date: June 3–5, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.sectsco.org/html/02235.html - 31st Meeting of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Task Force
Date: June 4, 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.aseansec.org/21636.pdf - 8th NEAT Country Coordinators Meeting
Date: June 7, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.neat.org.cn/english/hzdten/contentshow.php?content_id=106 - Japan-US-Australia Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Senior Officials Meeting
Date: June 9, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2008/6/1180669_1020.html - ASEM Senior Officials Meeting
Date: June 9–10, 2008
Location: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/asem/docs/calendar_en.pdf - 13th Poverty and Environment Partnership Meeting
Date: June 9–11, 2008
Location: Manila, Philippines
http://www.adb.org/documents/events/2008/13th-PEP-Meeting/default.asp - 3rd Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Economic Officials of the 39th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (SEOM 3/39)
Date: June 10–12, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/AR-08.pdf
- APEC Education Ministers Meeting
Date: June 11–13, 2008
Location: Lima, Peru
http://www.apec.org/apec/ministerial_statements/sectoral_ministerial/education/2008_education.html - Korea and Southeast Asia: Expanding Relations and New Challenges
Date: June 12, 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
http://www.asiafoundation.org/news/?m=200806 - Special Meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint
Date: June 12–13, 2008
Location: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
http://www.aseansec.org/6-2008.htm - 7th Workshop on Human Rights Mechanism for ASEAN
Date: June 12–13, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.siiaonline.org/?q=events/7th-workshop-human-rights-mechanism-asean - 2nd Trilateral Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea
Date: June 14, 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2008/6/1180628_936.html - 8th ASEM Financial Ministers Meeting
Date: June 14–17, 2008
Location: Jeju Island, Korea
http://www.asem2008fnmm.org/ - ASEM Conference: Asia, Europe and the Future of Regional Economic Integration
Date: June 15, 2008
Location: Jeju Island, Korea
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/asem/docs/calendar_en.pdf - World Economic Forum on East Asia 2008: Responding to New Uncertainties
Date: June 15–16, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.weforum.org/en/events/ArchivedEvents/WorldEconomicForumonEastAsia2008/index.htm - Pacific Health Summit 2008: The Global Nutrition Challenge—Getting a Healthy Start
Date: June 16–18, 2008
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
http://pacifichealthsummit.org/downloads/2008%20Summit/2008SummitChallenge.pdf - 8th ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime
Date: June 16–20, 2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=339731
- 17th Meeting of ASEAN Customs Directors-General
Date: June 17–19, 2008
Location: Vientiane, Lao PDR
http://www.aseansec.org/Bulletin-Jul-08.htm#Article-2 - New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Issues for US Policy
Date: June 18, 2008
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, US
http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1648/ - 15th BIMP-EAGA Senior Officials Meeting; 12th BIMP-EAGA Ministers Meeting
Date: June 18–19, 2008
Location: Kuala Belait, Brunei
http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&r=&y=&mo=&fi=p080619.htm&no=26 - Sino-US-Japan-ROK Seminar on East Asian Security: Challenge, Trend and Prospect
Date: June 19, 2008
Location: Shanghai
http://english.sass.org.cn/International/?newsid=003D0036003E&newstype=004E00730079006A0077007300660079006E0074007300660071 - International Workshop on Buddhism and the Crises of Nation-States in Asia
Date: June 19–20, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=777 - APEC Studies Centers Consortium Meeting
Date: June 19–21, 2008
Location: Piura, Peru
http://www.apec.org/apec/enewsletter/may_vol16/upcomingevents.html#0009 - UNESCO-IHE, PUB, ADB Cooperation on Developing Water Knowledge and Lessons: Workshop on New Concepts in Integrated Management of the Urban Water Cycle
Date: June 22–27, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/UNESCO-PUB-ADB-Workshops/default.asp - 5th Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution
Date: June 23, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/21685.htm - 8th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Water Resources Management
Date: June 23–25, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.aseansec.org/6-2008.htm - International Workshop on Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 26–27, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=757
Asia-Pacific Water Forum Regional Consultation Meetings on Climate Change Adaptation and Water-Related Disaster Management
Date: June 26–27, 2008
Location: Singapore
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2008/APWF-Consultation-Meeting/default.asp - 7th East Asia Summit Energy Cooperation Task Force Meeting
Date:June 26–27, 2008
Location: Korea
http://www.aseansec.org/6-2008.htm - 3rd Japan-US-Australia Trilateral Strategic Dialogue
Date: June 27, 2008
Location: Kyoto, Japan
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/australia/joint0806-2.html - Energy Future in East Asia
Date: June 29, 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
http://www.keei.re.kr/web_keei/en_news.nsf/frame.htm?ReadForm&url=/web_keei/en_news.nsf/mainV/C94B3519C5E2F3E3492574A40029D06E?OpenDocument - Workshop on Managing China-Japan-US Relations and Strengthening Trilateral Cooperation
Date: June 29–30, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.jcie.or.jp/thinknet/chinajapanus/ - ASEM Senior Officials Meeting
Date: June 29–30, 2008
Location: Beijing, China
http://www.asem7.cn/misc/2008-07/04/content_50246.htm