BANGKOK – To get a view of current development and social news and issues relating to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), which was set up by IPS Asia-Pacific under its programme with the International Development Research Centre.

ASEAN, South-east Asia’s main grouping of 10 member countries, gets a lot of media coverage. But most of this is centred around high-profile events and summits, leaving little room for in-depth analysis and investigation especially of social issues that rarely make the headlines at such events. Read more »

BANGKOK -Do you have a good ASEAN story to tell?

Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia-Pacific, in partnership with the ASEAN Studies Centre and with the support of the International Development Research Centre, is inviting journalists to submit creative, original ideas for proposals for in-depth features on development issues around the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its role in the region. Read more »

Singapur – Cómo crear espacio en los medios del sudeste de Asia para hacer reportajes sobre temas sociales y de desarrollo en el contexto regional de la Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste del Asia (ASEAN) fue el foco de una reunión de expertos organizada a principios de noviembre por IPS Asia-Pacífico, con el Centro de Estudios ASEAN como co-organizador.

Llevada a cabo en el Instituto de Estudios del Sudeste de Asia (ISEAS) en Singapur, la reunión presenció un intercambio saludable de puntos de vista entre los periodistas y editores experimentados de la región, expertos en políticas internacionales, investigadores y escritores sobre cómo lograr reportajes en profundidad más críticos en ASEAN, dado que la mayor parte de la cobertura de noticias se centra en cumbres de alto perfil y gravita hacia voces del estado, y considerando que su meta de una Comunidad ASEAN en el 2015 se aproxima. Read more »

SINGAPORE – How to create space in South-east Asian media for reporting on social and development issues in the context of Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) regionalism was the focus of an experts’ meeting organised in early November by IPS Asia-Pacific, with the ASEAN Studies Centre as co-organiser.

Held at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, the meeting saw a healthy exchange of views among senior journalists and editors from within the region, foreign policy experts, researchers and writers about how to get more critical, in-depth reportage around ASEAN given that much of the news coverage around it focuses on high-profile summits and gravitates toward state voices, and as its goal of an ASEAN Community in 2015 nears. Read more »