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The Seventh Asian-European Editors’ Forum will serve as a platform for discussions among leading Asian and European journalists, mainly Editors-in-Chief, from major newspapers from both continents. Once more organized by the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Singapore, the Forum examines the impact of the rise of China and India on the international politics of Asia and the world. The Republic of Singapore’s Prime Minister, His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong, has been invited to inaugurate this year’s forum with a keynote speech on ‘Singapore’s Role in View of the New Powers to Be in Asia’, followed by a Q&A session. Past guest speakers include Indonesia’s President, His Excellency Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2005), and Thailand’s Prime Minister, His Excellency Dr Thaksin Shinawatra (2004). As in previous years, invited high profile speakers include leading academics, CEOs, and editors.

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The theme of this year’s roundtable in “Revisiting the Bali Concord II”. By this time, almost three years would have past since the Bali Concord II. The roundtable will bring together academics and experts from across the region to undertake a stock-take on what has been done over the past three years and to discuss the way forward for ASEAN.

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The conference will examine topics such as the presidency and political parties; constitutional change and federalism; the roles of the military, religion, and the media in politics; macroeconomic developments; the investment climate and business opportunities; poverty, unemployment, and income inequality; demographic trends and migration; and the Philippine development record. Capping the conference will be an interactive discussion by a panel of experts on the outlook and trajectories of the country.

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Over the past decades Southeast Asia has seen a new resurgence in maritime piracy. Reported pirate attacks have more than tripled over the past decade while over 35% of the reported attacks in 2005 occurred in Southeast Asian waters. Hosted by the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) in Singapore, this workshop will bring together journalists and maritime experts to discuss various topics related to piracy such as its’ social causes as well as its’ often declared possible relation to maritime terrorism. The focus will be placed on the problems and challenges that journalists face when trying to objectively report on the topic.

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KAS is the first European partner to support initiatives in developing a Charter for the ASEAN Community. The Foundation has recently supported two brainstorming sessions of the ASEAN-ISIS Network in Singapore and Ubud, who are involved in the drafting process. The ASEAN Institutes for Strategic and International Studies have been invited to make recommendations concerning the Asean charter to The Eminent Persons Group (EPG). KAS will bring together the Asian drafters with their European counterparts in Berlin and Brussels in September so as to enable an exchange of their experiences.

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The 3rd Asian Law Institute (ASLI) annual conference will be held in the Faculty of Law, East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai/China. The theme explored is "The Development of Law in Asia: Convergence versus Divergence?”, and the conference will touch on several wide-ranging issues and sub-themes regarding regional legal issues in Asia. Topics range from, inter alia, International Law and International Human Rights; WTO and Regional Cooperation; Jurisprudence and Higher Education of Law; Dispute Resolution; IP and E-Commerce; Environment Protection and Natural Resources Issues. Legal experts from Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Germany will be sponsored by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to participate and to share their insights on the topics.

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The 13th ASEAN-ISIS Colloquium of Human Rights (AICOHR) will be held from 15 - 16 May 2006 in Manila on the theme of "Human Rights Promotion in the ASEAN Security Community”. The participants from East, South and Southeast Asia will be assessing the state of human rights in the Region with special focus, among others, on human rights as an integral part of political development and on the political, economic and social challenges to human rights promotion in the ASEAN Security Community.

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This year’s annual meeting of the Asia News Network (ANN) is held in Kolkata, organized by the ANN, the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Singapore and hosted by India’s ANN member, the Statesman.

The ANN is a network of 14 leading, predominantly English-language, national Asian daily newspapers in 12 Asian countries, with a combined circulation of 14 million and a readership of more than 50 million. Since February, 10 2006 ANN publishes AsiaNews, a weekly regional news magazine reflecting Asian perspectives in the fast growing and most diversed region ot the world. Please visit the ANN’s webpage, which provides access to the most important news in the region: http://www.asianewsnet.net.

Previous: Asia News Network (ANN) Annual Meeting, Beijing 2005

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Organised by the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, this year's policy forum focuses on the question "What is the future and (in)significance of elections as a democratic institution in Singapore?" A panel of experts will be discussing this and other issues on 25 February 2006 at the NUS.

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Prof. Dr. von Rosen, Managing Director of the “Deutsches Aktieninstitut”, the leading German think tank for capital market, presents global themes of corporate governance as shareholder rights and protection, executive and non-executive stock ownership, compensation systems for executive and non executive directors, structure and independence of the board, independence and integrity of the audit process.

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Secretaries General and senior party leaders from 12 Asian political parties will gather in Manila for a discussion on Ingredients of Efficient Party Management; the Importance of Political Party Dialogue in Asia; Party Platforms and Programmes; Party Organization and Financing as well as Communications and Campaigning.

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This is a follow-up to the annual EU-ASEAN+3 Think-Tank dialogue, with the theme on "Community Building in Europe and East Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Prospects". The Dialogue will be attended by participants from selected ASEAN-ISIS Institutes as well as experts from Japan, Korea and China. Furthermore, representatives from the EU Commission and the EU Parliament will also be participating.

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The ASEAN Roundtable 2005, organised by ISEAS and supported by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, aims to bring together policy-makers, academics and relevant experts to examine the medium to long-term implications of the Asian tsunami on regional development and security. It also aims to identify strategies and policies that can contribute to the post-tsunami recovery and reconstruction process in the years to come.

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Journalists covering crisis in this time of conflicts all over the region would benefit from this workshop. The emphasis is on how to analyze the conflict, write about it subjectively and survive - during the coverage as well as after having the article published about the theme. Participants for this workshop are coming from countries with crisis areas such as India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka. After this workshop, they are expected to act as multiplicators and pass on the newly acquired knowledge and experiences to their colleagues.

Previous: Reporting Conflict, Bangkok 2004

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The second Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) will focus on the theme "Governance Dilemmas in Asia – Public Action in a Comparative and Insecure World". The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is sponsoring a Panel on Burma/Myanmar with presenters coming from Myanmar, Thailand and Singapore.

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In association with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and the Vietnamese Government Inspectorate, this year’s workshop looks at the threat of corruption to law enforcement in various countries in the region, their experiences in corruption prevention, diagnosis and investigation. It will also facilitate information exchange between anti-corruption agencies, to highlight the pitfalls and underline the imperatives in the fight against corruption.

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The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS). It will discuss the many aspects of regional integration of ASEAN states in the Greater Mekong sub-region, particularly Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. Among others, it will discuss the roles and relationships of Major Asian Powers and the Greater Mekong Sub-Regional ASEAN States. Furthermore the Integration of Greater Mekong Sub-Regional ASEAN States in the Southeast and East Asian Context with reference to the security, economic and socio-cultural spheres. It shall also focus on the Greater Mekong Sub-Regional ASEAN States in the Region, discussing the issues, possibilities and challenges they face as cooperation and integration grows.

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At a time when images and events suggest a clash of the Muslim with the non-Muslim world, the media carries an accrued responsibility to report events objectively in ways that defuse rather than ignite religious and ethnic tensions. In this timely seminar, six speakers and six commentators - all leading academics, activists, authors, editors, and journalists - will be discussing the media’s role in fostering inter-faith dialogue and in strengthening inter-religious relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.
The seminar is organized by the Singapore-based Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA), with the assistance and support of the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS).

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Jointly organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and The Jakarta Post, the Sixth Asian-European Editors’ Forum in Jakarta serves as a platform for discussions among leading Asian and European journalists, mainly Editors-in-Chief from major newspapers from both continents. Indonesia’s President, His Excellency Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been invited to inaugurate this year’s forum with an address on ‘The Comeback of Indonesia’s Economy’, followed by a Q&A session. Other high profile speakers include ministers of state and leading experts whose presentations on the themes of ‘Indonesia’s Role in the Economy of Southeast Asia’ and ‘Islam and Civic Society in Southeast Asia’ will open the floor for discussions.

Previous: Fifth Asian-European Editors' Forum, Bangkok 2004

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Hosted by the Press Institute of Mongolia (PIM) and supported by the Asia Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) in Singapore, this international conference brings together media practitioners, politicians, academics, and NGO-members to discuss issues relating to the role of the media in transition-era politics. In three sessions, the 18 participants from 6 Asian countries will be discussing topics relating to ‘Media, Elections, and Political Parties’, ‘The Media’s Role in Society’, and ‘Communication between Journalists and Politicians’.

The Press Institute of Mongolia is a member of the KAS-supported Council of Asian Press Institutes (CAPI). This umbrella organization of 10 Asian press institutes promotes and develops professional journalism in the region through a newsletter, vocational training seminars, conferences, and the sharing of technical and human resources.

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Held in Beijing, this year’s annual meeting of the Asia News Network (ANN) is organized by the ANN, the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) in Singapore, and hosted by China’s ANN member, the China Daily. Highlights of the roundtable include a keynote address on ‘China Asia Economic Integration’ by Mr Long Yongtu, the Secretary General of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) and former Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People’s Republic of China, and lectures by distinguished professors on ‘China-Asia Political Relations’ and ‘Developments and Outlook of the Media Industry in China’.

The ANN is a network of 14 leading, predominantly English-language, national Asian daily newspapers in 12 Asian countries, with a combined circulation of 14 million and a readership of more than 50 million. Please visit the ANN’s webpage, which provides access to the most important news in the region: http://www.asianewsnet.net.

Next: Asia News Network Annual Meeting, Kolkata 2006

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With The Asian Law Institute and legal experts from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Germany.

The second Asian Law Institute conference will be held in the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok/Thailand. The theme explored is "The Challenge of Law in Asia: from Globalization to Regionalization?", and the conference will touch on several wide-ranging issues and sub-themes regarding regional legal issues in Asia. Topics range from, inter alia, Harmonization of Contract Law in Asia; Legal challenges of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology; Striving towards social justice through the use of Clinical Legal Education; Comparative legal traditions and Challenges with Imposing Western Standards of Disclosure Requirements in Asia. Legal experts from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, DPR Korea and Germany will be sponsored by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to participate and to share their insights on the topics.

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The Twelfth ASEAN-ISIS Colloquium of Human Rights (AICOHR) will be held from 14 - 15 May 2005 in Manila on the theme of "The ASEAN Security Community - Pushing the Human Rights and People's Participation Agenda: Views from Civil Society and Think Tanks". The participants from East, South and Southeast Asia will be assessing the state of human rights in the Region, including progress and setbacks as well as pushing the agenda on human rights and people's participation in the ASEAN Security Community.

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The Fourth Asean People's Assembly (APA) entitled "Towards a People-Centered Development in the ASEAN Community" will be held from 10 - 13 May 2005 in Manila, The Philippines. The event is organized by the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS) and is supportet, inter alia, by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The goals of the APA are, among others, to promote mutual understanding and tolerance for the diversity of culture, religion, ethnicity, social values, political structures and processes, and other elements of ASEAN's diversity among broader sectors of the ASEAN population. And to obtain insights or inputs on how to deal with socioeconomic problems affecting ASEAN societies from as many relevant sectors of ASEAN societies as possible.

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Participants: Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Editor and Managing Director of “The Statesman“ Kolkata, India - Mr. Pana Janviroj, Editor of “The Nation“, Bangkok, Thailand - Jose M. Cruz, S.J., Dean, School of Social Sciences of Ateneo University, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Center for Journalism, Manila, Philippines - Dato’ Ng Poh Tip, Group Editorial / Education Advisor of “The Star“, Director of the Asian Media Center for Media Studies Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Ms. Myagmar Munkhmandakh, Ph.D, Managing Director of Press Institute of Mongolia, President of the Council of Asian Press Institutes (CAPI), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Mr. Harry Bhaskara, Managing Editor of “The Jakarta Post“, Jakarta, Indonesia

Visits are planned to: Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung (Media Research) a.d. Universität Hamburg - "Institut für Asienkunde", Hamburg - News Magazine DER SPIEGEL - Axel-Springer-Verlag, Hamburg - Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger (Federal Association of German Newspaper Propietors) - ARD-Hauptstadtstudio (Consortium of the broadcasting corporations regulated by publc law in Germany and First German Television) – Bundespressekonferenz (Federal Press Conference) - "Internationales Institut für Journalistik" (International Institute for Journalism) - Auswärtiges Amt (Department for Foreign Affairs) - Dily Nwspaper "DIE WELT" - Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Academy of KAS) - DaimlerChrysler AG.

Themes: Overview of the Media Situation in Germany – Journalism Education in Germany – The Duties of the "Bundes-Verband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger" – The Role of the German Press Council Within the German Press – The Position of the "ARD" Within the German Broadcasting Entities Subject to Public Law – History and Duties of the Federal Press Conference – Self-Image, Duties and Objectives of the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin-Brandenburg - Presentation of the Project DaimlerChrysler "Potsdamer Platz"

Furthermore: Talks with high-ranking politicians, journalists and media scientists.

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