Southeast and East Asia
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) promotes democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and curbing climate change. In Southeast and East Asia, we have offices in Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, Taipei, and Yangon. We also work in Malaysia. The FNF regional team works with the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats, the Working group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, the Asia Centre, and the ASEAN Prosperity Initiative, which is part of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs. Should you have questions or suggestions about our work, please contact us. You can also meet our team here.
News
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Tackling the EU's dependency on raw materials
China has established itself as the main provider of numerous critical raw materials, the disruption of which, if used a political instrument to impose pressure in an age of increasing geopolitical divergence, could seriously endanger economic stability in Europe. This study investigates Europe’s options to diversify raw material sourcing and takes a close look at one of its major strategic resource autonomy projects: the circular economy.
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Thinking about Europe: Photography Competition
Europe is more than 8000 kilometers away from Thailand. Despite this, globalization has made us feel more interconnected than ever before. The influence of Europeans can be seen integrated through Thai culture, economy, society, politics and in our way of life. Thus, FNF and our partners invited interested parties to seek out what are the European traces in Thailand; and to reflect on the relationship between Europe and Thailand.
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10 Years Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation Vietnam (2012-2022) – Partners in Freedom
FNF stays committed to our goal of supporting Vietnam on its way to economic freedom, prosperity, and wealth. Our principles are based on loyalty to our long-term partners. For me as Country Director Vietnam, it is a great pleasure to celebrate 10 years of FNF Vietnam with our friends, supporters, and partners at a GALA Event on 14th November 2022.
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ASEAN Integration Report 2022
As part of the ASEAN Prosperity Initiative (API) for 2022, FNF and IDEAs are proud to present our ASEAN Integration Report 2022, consisting of a study that tracks and monitors the progress of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2025 implementation among its member states since 2015.
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An Overview of South Korean Media’s EU Representation before and after COVID-19
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Southeast and East Asia and Prof. Sae Won Chung from Pukyong National University have collaborated to produce a policy paper entitled “Overviewing South Korean Media’s EU Representation before and after COVID-19: A Semantic Network Approach”. The paper aims to analyse the South Korean media representation of the EU pre- and post COVID-19 pandemic.
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What role does cyberwarfare play in countering threats from Russia and China?
On November 22nd, 3:00-4:20 pm (GMT+8), we will hold a panel “Countering Threats from Russia and China: The Role of Cyberwarfare in National Security Strategy.” Through this event, we hope to raise the awareness of think tanks, politicians, and civil society on cyberwarfare, and encourage more discussion on defense strategies in the face of disinformation.
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50 and Beyond
We celebrated our 50 years last month with our partners who we have not seen since pandemic. 50 years is neither long nor short but it sure is a long journey. Looking back there were ups and down that we have to face. Our office opened and closed several times, we moved office from one country to another and finally decided to stop at a metropolitan city called “Jakarta.”
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Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia: A Practitioner's GuideKit
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Southeast and East Asia and AmerBon Advocates have published a “GuideKit for Small and Medium Enterprises on Human Rights Compliance regarding the Environment and Labour”
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The Journalist Training Programme of 2022 has begun!
The LGBTQ+ community is still a marginalized group in Southeast and East Asia. Behind the headlines, the community still lack legislative protection of their civil liberties such as laws on gender recognition and equality in marriage. FNF Southeast and East Asia (SEEA) is supporting young journalists to dig deep into the stories behind the headlines of various discrimination and subliminal hostility that is still experience by the LGBTQ+ community in the region.
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Publication: EU-ASEAN Relations in light of the War in Ukraine
An EU / ASEAN Free Trade Agreement would connect the EU and 660 million people with USD 3 trillion GDP in Southeast Asia.
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“Smart Finance”, FNF’s financial education initiative for Young Vietnamese
The goal of becoming rich quickly unites many young Vietnamese. However, due to the lack of financial expertise, a growing number of people lose money every year in Ponzi schemes and obscure investment projects. Our new project of video series co-hosted with Lao Dong Newspaper, one of Vietnamese largest newspapers, has pioneered to launch a financial education initiative called “Tai chinh thong minh / Smart Finance“.
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Online Seminar on Personal Finance
For many young students there is a lack of basic knowledge about personal finance, especially in terms of personal investment in the future. As a result, we would like to provide students with basic knowledge about personal finance to act as a helpful guide and increase their capacity to budget, invest and plan for the future.
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FNF SEEA Journalist Training Program 2022
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) would like to cooperate with five freelance journalists (or teams) in Southeast and East Asia by supporting their research and their publication of a multimedia feature article about “LGBTQ+ Life in Southeast and East Asia”. Our Program includes training by high-profile journalists and a 2,000 Euros honorarium for your multimedia article.
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ASEAN-EU Conference
The year of 2022 marks 45 years of partnership between the ASEAN and the EU. Much progress has been made; such as the elevation to a strategic partnership in 2020, and the EU’s recognition of ASEAN´s significance in the EU strategy for the Indo-Pacific. Now, in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic and political tensions in both Europe and Asia, there is an urgency to strengthen the partnership between the two entities even further
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Norm Entrepreneurship
A Norm Entrepreneur are "agents of social change" seeking to challenge societal problems to bring about political change. FNF has cooperated with the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism for more than 25 years. This booklet highlights successes and contributions of the Working Group.
