Asian Forum: China's Li Peng speaks at population forum
Beijing, 17 October: Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress [NPC], hosted a reception marking the 20th anniversary of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development [AFPPD] in the Great Hall of the People this evening and delivered a speech, in which he pointed out: Population and development have become a major topic, which the international community is following with increasingly great interest. China will...
Asian Forum: GORBACHEV CALLS FOR PAN-ASIAN SECURITY TALKS
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, at a dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, last night called for a pan-Asian security conference to reduce tensions on the continent. "The people of Asia are not less interested in ensuring peace and peaceful cooperation" than those living elsewhere, he said.Gandhi received a lavish welcome on this, his first foreign visit since taking office last October. His talks produced a series of agreements on commercial and...
Asian Forum: The Nation (Thailand):
Corporate responsibility
Corporate responsibility The second annual Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) will be held in Bangkok this year, the organisers said in a statement released on Tuesday. The forum will be held on September 18-20 at Le Royal Meridien Hotel and is expected to draw bigger crowds than last year's event in Manila, which attracted 400 delegates from 123 countries, the statement said.The theme will be "Business, Government and Civil Society...
Asian forum slams missile plan
Defense ministers of a new six-nation Asian forum led by China and Russia criticized U.S. missile defense plans Friday as harmful to world security. At a ceremony to inaugurate the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian republics said they hoped the group would counterbalance American dominance of world affairs.Other members of the group are Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Tajikistan.Chinese President Jiang Zemin said the new group was...