Day on August 8 in the history

Day of ASEAN Is celebrated at the initiative of ASEAN). On the eighth of August, 1967 in Bangkok five countries Southeast Asia — Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines signed the Declaration of ASEAN (better known as the Bangkok declaration). Today members of ASEAN are ten countries: Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. The status of the observer have Papua New Guinea and East Timor. The organization is created for developments social and economic and cultural cooperation of member countries...