Note: This article was originally published  in Borneo Bulletin on 9 March 2018. ERIA's event  was featured.

THE Asean-Japan Centre (AJC), an intergovernmental organisation of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Japan based in Tokyo, organised a symposium to reflect on Asean’s 50th anniversary, in association with the Economic Research Institute for Asean and East Asia (ERIA) and the Asean Committee in Tokyo (ACT) in Japan recently. (Read the full article by using the link above).