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Dec 14, 2015

J M Sali awarded 2015 South East Asia Write Award

12/14/2015
Indian-origin Tamil writer Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali on 11 December 2015 was declared as the winner of the prestigious South East Asian Write Award for Singapore.
Sali will receive the award for literary excellence on 14 December 2015 at a ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.
 
 

About Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali

  • Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali (famously known as J M Sali) was born in Madras in 1939.
  • He had moved to Singapore at the age of 25 after he was invited to be an assistant editor of newspaper Tamil Murasu by its founder late G Sarangapani.
  • In Singapore, he had worked at local broadcasting station and produced books on famous people including martial art icon Bruce Lee and legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
  • He has been writing for over 5 decades and has written 57 books, 80 plays and more than 400 short stories.
  • His short stories like Vellai Kodugal (White Lines), Alaigal Pesuginrana (the Sound Of The Waves) are being studied by Tamil Literature students in Singapore and Indian universities.
  • Awards and Honours: He has won several literary awards to his credit including Singapore’s prestigious Cultural Medallion.

About Southeast Asian Write Award

  • Since 1979, the Southeast Asian Write Awards (S.E.A. Write Awards) is presented annually to poets and writers of Southeast Asia.
  • The awards are given to the writers from each of the countries that comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, though not all countries in ASEAN are represented every year.
  • The award is sometimes given for a specific work by an author, or it could be awarded for lifetime achievement.
  • The types of works that are honored vary, and have included poetry, short stories, novels, plays, folklore, and scholarly and religious works.

Nov 23, 2015

ASEAN leaders sign declaration for launching ASEAN Economic Community

11/23/2015
 
ASEAN leaders have declared the establishment of an European Union style regional economic bloc, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
The declaration, signed by all ten members during the on going ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur will create a community of a single market with a free flow of goods, capital and skilled labour in the ASEAN region. 
It will integrate Southeast Asia’s diverse economies, a region with 620 million people and a combined gross domestic product of USD 2.4 trillion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was one among the East Asia Summit leaders who witnessed the historic moment.

About ASEAN Economic Community

  • AEC would make ASEAN a single market with a free flow of goods, capital and skilled labour in the region.
  • Integrate Southeast Asia’s diverse 10 economies which has combine population of 620 million people and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.4 trillion US dollars.
  • Abolish tariffs on imports within the bloc member countries and promote the liberalization of service industries such as retailing and tourism.
  • Calls for more free movement of and skilled labour within the region including of doctors, architects and others with special skills.
  • Focus on creating an integrated and well-connected economy of ASEAN member countries which would be business-friendly, trade-facilitative and market-driven.
  • The new economic bloc will be launched in December 2015 and would make ASEAN’s growing GDP, 4th-biggest in the world.

ASEAN 2025 declaration

Apart from this AEC, ASEAN leaders also adopted the declaration on “ASEAN 2025, forging ahead together”. The ASEAN 2025 document charts the path for building AEC over the next 10 years.
The declaration calls for ASEAN members to work towards building a community that is politically cohesive, economically integrated and socially responsible. ASEAN 2025 declaration calls to work with external partners to strengthen cooperation in combating non-traditional security challenges like terrorism, human trafficking, drug related crimes and maritime issues through various initiatives and projects.

About Association of South East Asian Nations

  • ASEAN is a group of 10 South Asian nations which was brought into existence on August 8, 1967 after ASEAN declaration (also known as Bangkok declaration).
  • Motto: “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”
  • 10 Members: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • Founder countries of ASEAN were: Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand
  • Enlargement: The group was expanded by adding 5 more nations which are Brunei Darussalam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Cambodia was the latest entry in the group in 1999.
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