{"id":20864,"date":"2026-03-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=20864"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:14:37","slug":"mar-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=20864","title":{"rendered":"Mar 13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, today participated in the 32nd ASEAN Economic Ministers\u2019 Retreat (AEM Retreat) held in Taguig, Philippines. The AEM Retreat was chaired by the Secretary of Trade and Industry of the Philippines and Chair of the ASEAN Economic Ministers\u2019 Meeting in 2026, H.E. Ma. Christina A. Roque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministers expressed their support for ASEAN\u2019s economic priorities under the Philippines\u2019 2026 Chairship under the theme of \u201cNavigating Our Future, Together.\u201d The Ministers also exchanged views on the current regional and global economic developments, enhancement of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Performance Monitoring, as well as a number of key initiatives such as the ongoing negotiations for the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), Timor-Leste\u2019s accession to ASEAN economic agreements, and ASEAN\u2019s external economic relations issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Meeting was preceded by open dialogue sessions with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, today participated in the 32nd ASEAN Economic Ministers\u2019 Retreat (AEM Retreat) held in Taguig, Philippines. The AEM Retreat was chaired by the Secretary of Trade…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20865,"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\/20864"}],"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=20864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20874,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions\/20874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}