Asean Rocks - Singapore Celebrates ASEAN’s 40th Anniversary

 This year marks ASEAN’s 40th Anniversary. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Singapore has lined up a full slate of commemorative events throughout the year. The key focus of our events is to reach out to the young and to promote greater awareness of ASEAN amongst our youths.

As the 10 ASEAN countries move closer towards the goal of an integrated community by 2015, it is important that our young people identify not just with their individual countries but also with ASEAN as a whole. Our youths should appreciate the need to work together as one to tackle the challenges of the future. Many challenges ahead of Southeast Asia will require us to work together in concert.

We hope to reach out to all ASEAN youth and not just Singapore youth. The idea is to develop stronger people-to-people linkages especially between the youths. In this process, we hope the youths will have a deeper appreciation about ASEAN and the region.

A music video to celebrate ASEAN’s 40th anniversary made its debut at the ASEAN Day Reception on Tuesday night. The anniversary theme song, titled Rise, was written by composers Dick Lee and Kenn C, and features Singaporean pop star Stefanie Sun.  Lean more about it here.

Everyone is excited by this 40th anniversary celebration. As part of Singapore’s celebration
of ASEAN’s 40th anniversary, SIIA’s ASEAN Focus Series is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and part of SHINE, a youth festival supported by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and the National Youth Council.Details can be found in this PDF… click here now.