How to Qualify as Correspondent
Posted by vergaje, Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Country correspondents to the ASEAN COCI Website are nominated by their respective National COCI. These are issued account login names and password to be able to file stories online.

Welcome to ASEAN COCI Website
Posted by vergaje, Wednesday, November 30, 2005
This section allows authorized correspondents from ASEAN member countries to directly file stories about developments in culture and information.

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A Myriad of Cultures

The region of Southeast Asia is an area of immense richness and diversity, spanning three time zones and ten nations that are multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual.

The scholars tell us that man may have lived here as early as half a million years ago, at a time when much of the world lay covered with ice and today's islands were still connected by land bridges.

Several centuries of human migration, the influence of the great religions and civilizations of the East, the coming of western rule followed by independence, have resulted in a region made up of countries that are diverse in character, -- in terms of the size and heterogeneity of their populations, the many religions practiced, the number of languages used and the historical circumstances experienced by each of them.

Exploring this myriad of cultures can be a fascinating adventure of the vast richness of life in Southeast Asia.