His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden, has been actively involved in Scouting since his childhood days. In 1955 he joined as a Cub Scout with the name (totem) Mowgli and progressed to the Scout age-section in 1958. At the age of 10, as a...

The first Regional Director of the Eurasia Scout Region, Dr. Alexander Stepanovich Bondar, known as Sacha Bondar, passed away on 14 October 2012. Sacha had joined the World Scout Bureau Eurasia Region as the first Regional Director of the Region in...

The 14th World Scout Moot will take place in Canada from 8 to 18 August 2013. Preparations are underway and the hosts, Association Scouts du Canada, and its Moot organising team are gearing up in several ways to ensure that the event will be a grand...

Six Regional Office Coordinators met in Geneva along with their Messengers of Peace (MoP) colleagues at the World Scout Bureau Central Office from 9 to 11 October to gather updates from the first year of implementing various MoP initiatives and to...

According to some analysts, the Android platform currently leads the mobile phone market, accounting for approximately 60 percent of all smartphone shipments in the first half of 2012. Over half a million actual users are setting up a new Android...

Around 350 Rover Scouts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka are camping from 17th to 21st October 2012 in Islamabad, Pakistan for the 2nd SAARC Scouts Friendship Camp hosted under the Messenger of Peace. This...

52 particiapnts from 18 countries took part in the Youth For Change workshop that took place from 14 to 16 September in Sriracha, Thailand. The workshop was part of the implementation of the Youth for Change work group. The sessions comprised of four...

The 24th APR Scout Conference Organization Committee (COC) held its 5th Preparatory Meeting at the National Headquarters in Dhaka on 14th October 2012. The COC Chairman and Vice President of Bangladesh Scouts Mr Habibul Alam welcomed the members of...

The sun was shining brightly in Papua Province, Indonesia on 14th October 2012 as more than 5,000 Rovers and senior Rovers stood in front of the office of the Governor of Papua signing the MoP declaration "Scouts the Messengers of Peace." The signing...

One of many activities from the project "Together in Scouting, Together for Peace", part of "Messengers of Peace" project is realized by National Scout Association of Moldova (NSAM) is "Together with parents life is better"- essays, poems and...