20th ASEAN Summit Tackles Socio-Economic Security
President Benigno S. Aquino III will join today at Phnom Penh, Cambodia the nine other leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the opening ceremony of the 45-year-old regional bloc’s 20th Leaders’ Summit, which is expected to tackle wide-ranging issues of political and socio-economic security, particularly Pyongyang’s planned rocket launch next week.
