28 March 2014 - The Philippine Embassy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, together with the Philippine National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA), organized a lecture on Southeast Asian Culture by renowned authority on Philippine culture and arts, NCCA Chairman Felipe de Leon, Jr. on March 19 at the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (MICT) in Vientiane.
 

Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Savankhone Razmountry welcomed the participants and noted that the promotion of ASEAN identities and commonalities will contribute in building an ASEAN Community. 

Chairman de Leon, in his lecture, emphasized that the reason for conflict is the absence of an awareness of the common histories and similarities among peoples. He stressed the importance of shared insights and heritage as the basic foundation of cooperation among Southeast Asian communities and for building an ASEAN socio-cultural community. 

The lecture was attended by some eighty (80) officials from the MICT and other line ministries and organizations in Laos.  END