SINGAPORE - Arts and culture ministers from ASEAN will be gathering in Singapore tomorrow for the fifth Meeting of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and the Arts.
Singapore will be hosting the ministerial meet for the first time and will be designated as the ASEAN City of Culture for 2012-2013.
Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Yaacob Ibrahim will host his counterparts from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The meeting aims to promote arts and culture, preserve cultural heritage and develop arts and cultural industries in 10-member grouping.
The ASEAN Ministers will also meet with their counterparts from China, Japan and Korea as part of the AMCA+3 and AMCA+1 framework.
In conjunction with the meeting, Singapore will stage the ASEAN Festival of the Arts featuring performers from the 10 ASEAN member states at the National Museum on Friday.
CHANNEL NEWSASIA
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