What happens when young people from ASEAN countries become senior officials and ministers trying to negotiate contentious issues and reach a consensus, the ASEAN way? Read this feature by Jake Soriano on a Model ASEAN meeting held in Manila in September 2017.

“There are so many things to learn, to hear from the other organisations and CSOs,” Nguyen Thi Kim Que, vice director of the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies in Vietnam, said after taking part in the 2^nd S Rajaratnam Endowment (SRE) ASEAN Community Forum in Singapore in August 2017.

A rich mix of puppetry artists has been busy creating a joint ASEAN performance to tell a common story we can all identify with, Johanna Son reports in this Q & A. Coming soon — performance at the ASEAN Summit in Lao PDR, September 2016.