Introduction : ASEAN's goals -- Pivoting to Asia -- Defining ASEAN's goals -- Financial capital -- A systems approach to achieving ASEAN's goals -- People, data, and information -- Institutions, governance, and rule of law -- Positioning ASEAN's economy for success -- Climate change and the...

The international community has come together to pursue certain fundamental, common goals over the coming period to 2030 to make progress toward ending poverty and hunger, improving social and economic well-being, preserving the environment and combating climate change, and maintaining peace....

The author, Singapore's Ambassador to the Holy See, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the EC, looks at the positions of the USA, the USSR and China after the victories of the communist forces in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1975. Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in December 1978...