Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
South Africa: 31 May 1961: Republic declared ... [Asia 1] 1 January 1912: A republic was formally established ... and the Cabinet system was established in place of ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
ASEAN Plus Three East Asia Summit ASEAN Regional Forum . As of 2010, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has 10 member states, one candidate member state, and one observer state. ASEAN was founded on 8 August 1967 with five member states: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR, not to be confused with the much later Republic of South Africa), is often referred to as The Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal. It was an independent and internationally recognised nation-state in southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
Left on 31 May 1961 with the last Governor-General of South Africa, Charles Robberts Swart as the first State President of South Africa; rejoined 1 June 1994 under Nelson Mandela, the President of South Africa. [54] Sri Lanka: 4 February 1948 Asia: Southern Asia: 22,037,000 Unitary semi-presidential republic
The ASEAN Declaration [1] or Bangkok Declaration is the founding document of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It was signed in Bangkok on 8 August 1967 by the five ASEAN founding members, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. It states the basic principles of ASEAN: co-operation, amity, and non ...
In 1990, Malaysia proposed the creation of an East Asia Economic Caucus [20] composing the then-members of ASEAN and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea, with the intention of counterbalancing the growing influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and in the Asian region as a whole.