Latest ASEAN Statistics Show Progress Towards 2015 Integration
Are you looking for information on the progress of ASEAN’s integrative efforts towards ‘One Vision, One Identity, One Community’ by 2015? Here are some key indicators featured in the 2012 ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System (ACPMS) Report, launched today by the ASEAN Secretariat. ASEAN GDP almost doubled since 2000 Real…
Public and Private Sectors Urged to Adjust for New Opportunities Brought by ASEAN Integration
The public and private sectors in Thailand have been urged to adjust themselves and seek new opportunities from the upcoming ASEAN integration. Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gave a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board on 16…
Nina Davuluri, Miss America’s first Indian-American winner, shrugs off racist backlash
By Geoff Herbert In 1983, a Syracuse University student named Vanessa Williams became the first African-American woman to be crowned Miss America. Thirty years later, the second Miss Syracuse winner to receive the same national honor, Miss New York Nina Davuluri, became the first Indian-American woman to win Miss America….