{"id":20492,"date":"2026-02-17T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=20492"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:35:17","slug":"feb-17-2026-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=20492","title":{"rendered":"Feb 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 17 February 2026, participated in the ASEAN-Germany Business Roundtable: \u201cASEAN\u2019s Evolving Role in a Changing World,\u201d on the margins of his working visit to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion reflected on ASEAN\u2019s geostrategic significance in the global economic fragmentation and its strategic role in connecting the Indo-Pacific region. It further examined the region\u2019s geoeconomic importance, including ASEAN\u2019s Free Trade Agreements with its partners, its approach to critical minerals, and key infrastructure initiatives such as the Global Gateway Initiative and the ASEAN Power Grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion also highlighted how German business expertise in technology, manufacturing, and green finance can capitalise on ASEAN’s economic integration while supporting the region’s sustainable growth agenda and contributing to building prosperity in ASEAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 17 February 2026, participated in the ASEAN-Germany Business Roundtable: \u201cASEAN\u2019s Evolving Role in a Changing World,\u201d on the margins of his working visit to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20499,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20492\/revisions\/20499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}