Eurasia News

Six months after joining the Ticket to Life project, the Scout Association of Mongolia (SAM) is now forming its second Scout Troop to engage more and more children into Scouting. The second troop has 26 children who are now trained in various...

Using seed capital from the funds of the association, the Scout Association of Mongolia (SAM) has built a Scout community centre in Bayangol within the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, to bring Scouting closer to the community. In a recent visit of...

A total of 49 participants from 22 Scout districts in Sri Lanka successfully completed the 9th National Course for Assistant Leader Trainers at the MAS Institute of Management and Technology in Thulhiriya, Sri Lanka from 8th to 14th June 2009. The...

The Scout Association of Mongolia (SAM) has taken a step forward by organizing the National Youth Programme Review Seminar from 12th to 15th June 2009 at the Nars Youth Centre, about 25 km west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. At the scenic slopes of...

More than 5,000 young Scouts and students were among the recipients of 2009 Scout Scholarship Award presented on 22 May 2009 at the national headquarters of Korea Scout Association having Kang Young Joong, President of Korea Scout Association, graced...

In the outskirts of Zamboanga City, an island in southern Philippines, a group of children living in make-shift shelters near a garbage dumpsite, found new things to do in Scouting other than sorting and selling garbage. These children are the newest...

The regional team in charge of the Committee NSO Visit (CNV) had a highly productive meeting with the key leaders of the Scout Association of Japan (SAJ) from 1st to 3rd June 2009. Using the eight-key performance indicators, the regional team...

The three-day Asia-Pacific Regional Management Meeting from 26th to 28th May 2009 concluded that the review gives a bigger picture of how the region works for the overall organizational goals. APR executives were joined by Jim Sharp, Executive...

The Annual Council Meeting of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) held on 19th to 21st May 2009 in Zamboanga city, in the southern part of the country, ended with two historical resolutions. The annual meeting, attended by over 400 Scout Leaders...

Regional Scout Committee Vice-Chairman Mohammed Ali Khalid along with members Fazlur Rahman, Prakorb Mukura and Dr Mohammed Mukhyuddin completed another successful Committee NSO Visit in Maldives from 10th to 12th May 2009. The regional team...

The last week of April 2009 was dotted with a series of important events. Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia (PPM) hosted two regional events, in conjunction with the celebration of the 100 years of Scouting in Malaysia. It started with the 4th...

After a three-year absence, Scouting was relaunched in the country after Timor Leste government signed a declaration on 20th April 2009, recognizing the existence of the Scout Association of Timor Leste or Uniao Nacional dos Escuteiros de Timor Leste...

Scouts from the Asia-Pacific Region joined the rest of the world as they switched off lights for the Earth Hour 2009 on 28th March. In the region, Scouts from Maldives and Cub Scouts from Scouts China were part of over 84 countries and territories...

The Scout Association of Macau (SAM), with the support of Asia-Pacific Region, organized the National Strategic Planning Review Workshop from 8th to 12th April 2009. A total of 16 participants comprised of Deputy Chief Commissioners, International...

As the members of the Regional Scout Committee continue its “Committee NSO Visit” ensuring that high quality Scouting is implemented in National Scout Organizations in the Asia-Pacific Region, Papua New Guinea became their first stop in the South...