President Rodrigo Duterte on July 31 signed Proclamation 282, declaring the month of August of every year as “Asean Month.”

The signing coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), as well as the Philippines’ chairmanship of the association in 2017.

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