ASEAN Schools Tour Kicks Off in June 2007
More than 4000 students across the region will get acquainted with ASEAN when the ASEAN Schools Tour makes a stop in their home cities between June and December 2007.
At ten cities, officials from the ASEAN Secretariat and the governments of Member Countries will visit a secondary school to interact with students from the ages of 12 to 16 and engage them through various fun and interactive activities focused on ASEAN.
300 to 500 students are expected to participate at each stop. The programme will showcase the first-ever animated film on ASEAN, as well as the talents of the students through quizzes, creative arts contests and cultural performances.
The ASEAN Schools Tour is one of the commemorative activities held to mark ASEAN’s 40th anniversary in 2007.
url: http://www.aseansec.org/Bulletin-June-07.htm#Article-1
today 28/6/2007:
ASEAN KNOWLEDGE CARAVAN 2007 commemorates the 40th ASEAN Anniversary The ASEAN School Tour was held in Sek. Men Masin in collaboration with sek.men sy.Husain n Sek. Men Sy Hasan. Whcih was organized by the Asean Secretariat, MFA with our guest of honour Secretary General Ong Keng Yong.
A brief picture of the programme was speech by the SG, animation video on ASEAN COMMUNITY fisrt ever made, followed by QUIZ participated by 3 teams from the 3 schools ( And My team WIN!!!! yeaaa..nda sia2 usahakuuu) digital Media Competition, Choir and cultural dance show...
Overall, i guess im into ASEAN now... as its theme this year "One ASEAN at the heart of Dynamic Asia" and i really wanted to travel through inside out of ASEAN beautiful places.
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8 August 2007
ASEAN will turn forty on 8 August 2007. Throughout the year, the ASEAN Member Countries will be organising events and activities to commemorate the 40th Anniversary.
"One ASEAN at the Heart of Dynamic Asia" is the official theme of the 40th Anniversary.
The selection of the logo was done through a region-wide competition. National-level contests to design a 40th Anniversary logo for ASEAN were organised by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the ten ASEAN Member Countries and the national winners went on to compete at a regional final that took place at the end of January 2007. The winning logo was submitted by Mr. Haji Othman bin Haji Salleh of Brunei Darussalam.
url: http://www.aseansec.org/40thAnniversary.htm
Of the 10 countries..... the logo was produced by Bruneian...
**IM PROUD BEING BRUNEIAN** (buh.. patriotic tu ku lgi bulan ani heheheh)