Addressing the region's most intractable problem, Ms Albright urged North Korea to join Asean, which provides a regional forum for dialogue on Asian defence problems.
Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a non-profit regional forum, released its annual Silicon Valley Index (PDF version), with dozens of tables and charts analyzing the region's demographics and employment.
With America and Russia set to join as full members next year, the East Asia Summit looks the most promising place to become the region's security forum.
Women's information groups have sprung up in the region, providing a forum for discussion on health issues that affect women.
Tasked by the Forum Region Security Committee (FRSC), this is the first study to focus exclusively on the issue regionally and we welcome it as a contribution to policy and programme development.
For all their alleged new toughness, ASEAN foreign ministers could not bring themselves to name China as the source of the tension.Of the region's security forums, the ARF is the oldest and most inclusive.
The Council has already achieved considerable success in generating knowledge about the Arctic and bringing added attention to the region in global forums.
As the region's premier leadership forum, the East Asia Summit has a vital role in setting a strategic vision for the region.
That explains the anxious, standing-room-only crowd that greeted California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom last month when he traveled up to Humboldt County, the state's most legendary marijuana production region, for a public forum on pot policy.
By 1971 he had marshalled together a South Pacific Forum (later the Pacific Islands Forum) and had become recognized as the region's leading statesman.
The region's only annual security forum - the Shangri-La Dialogue organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) - is back in town.
