CALD

Hon. Oyun Sanjaasuren
President, United Nations Environmental Assembly
Minister, Environment and Green Development – Mongolia
Co-Chairperson, Civil Will Green Party of Mongolia
Chair, Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
September 20 2014

CALD Climate Change Communications Youth Seminar: “Promoting Climate Change Awareness Through New Media and Social Media”
September 19 2014

FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION

President Aquino received the medal for his successful reforms in the areas of education, anti-corruption and rule of law. Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), said that Filipinos serve as an inspiration worldwide. “You are the embodiment and the instigator of this inspiration. Your straight path, the daang matuwid, is our motivation too,” he told President Aquino. Dr. Gerhardt listed Aquino’s achievements, including in the area of reproductive health, human rights, foreign investments and economic growth, education, human rights, the Bangsamoro peace, sticking to international law in the dispute with China and in particular in fighting corruption. The Foundation for Freedom has worked together with liberal partners in the Philippines since 1986.
http://fnf.org.ph/news/fnfnews.php?id=132&article=Aquino_Receives_Freedom_Medal_in_Germany

BURMA

Establishing Democracy a Challenge, Says NLD Leader
September 18 2014

Establishing a culture of democracy in Myanmar will be challenging and time-consuming, opposition party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said in Nay Pyi Taw on September 15.
“We cannot say that we have had four years of democracy; we can only say we have had four years of striving towards democracy,” the leader of the National League for Democracy.
http://www.mizzima.com/mizzima-news/politics/item/12821-establishing-democracy-a-challenge-says-nld-leader

HONGKONG

Thousands of Hong Kong university students abandoned classes on Monday to rally against Chinese government limits on voting rights, a bellwether demonstration of the city’s appetite for turning smoldering discontent into street-level opposition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/asia/hong-kong-students-lead-democracy-fight-with-class-boycott.html?_r=1

What is Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement?
September 22 2014

Elections are due in 2017 – but the Chinese government has issued a ruling limiting who can stand as a candidate. Democracy campaigners are planning to occupy the city’s business district in protest – a move denounced by China. The BBC explains the movement.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29054196?OCID=fbasia&ocid=socialflow_facebook

Hong Kong Lecturers in Show Support For Striking Students
September 17 2014

Leading academics in Hong Kong have come out in strong support of a student boycott of classes planned for next week as part of an ongoing pro-democracy campaign in the former British colony.
The move comes as Hong Kong universities held their opening assemblies on Tuesday, with large numbers of students wearing yellow ribbons in support of the democracy movement, and others holding banners calling on students to boycott class next week.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lecturers-09162014160613.html

INDONESIA

Indonesia has officially adopted a decade-old regional haze treaty following pressure from neighboring countries over forest fires on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
A House of Representatives’ plenary meeting on Tuesday endorsed the ratification of the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, which obliges Indonesia, as one of the member states, to actively involve itself in efforts to mitigate air pollution, both nationally and through intensified regional and international cooperation.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/17/ri-ratifies-haze-treaty.html

PHILIPPINES

President Benigno Aquino III was presented the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Freedom Medal in Berlin on Saturday during his official visit to Europe and the United States.

According to a news release from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), Aquino received the medal for “his successful reforms in the areas of education, anti-corruption and rule of law.”
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/380143/news/nation/pnoy-awarded-freedom-medal-in-germany-for-successful-reforms

President’s Official Visits, September 2014
September 18 2014

This September, President Benigno S. Aquino III will undertake official visits to Spain, Belgium, France, Germany, and the United States (Boston and New York).
The European leg of the visits will begin on September 13, 2014, when the President departs for Madrid, Spain. The American leg of the trip will begin on September 20, 2014, when the President arrives in Boston from Berlin. The visits will conclude when the President comes home on September 24, 2014.
http://www.gov.ph/presidential-trips/official-visits-september-2014/#brussels

TAIWAN

LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL

Commemorating the International Day of Democracy – which this year acknowledges the contribution made by young people to democratic development – LI President, Dr Juli Minoves, has spoken of the challenges faced by progressive political forces around the world.
http://www.liberal-international.org/site/Presidential_statement_on_International_Day_of_Democracy.html