The Centenary of World Scouting was launched in Australia by the 21st Australian National Jamboree (AJ2007) at Elmore in Victoria from the 2-12 of January 2007. Governor-General and Chief Scout of Australia His Excellency Michael Jeffery opened the Jamboree and took a tour of the jamboree site.

Some 350 Venturer Scouts, 55 leaders and 20 programme support team members attended the very successful V07 event held in the upper North Island of New Zealand between the 2nd and 10th January 2007.

The Bharat Scouts and Guides India started the year with a special National Jamboree in Kolkata, West Bengal on 02-08 January 2007. India regularly holds a national Jamboree every four years. This time the Jamboree marks the occasion of the 100 years of Scouting and this is to be followed by another special Jamboree in December 2007 to conclude the celebrations.

Thousands of young people from all over Malaysia, Maldives, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and Sri Lanka camped together at the 11th National Jamboree held in Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus, Malaysia from 12 to 19 December 2006.

Scouts in Hong Kong are one of the first to welcome the centenary of Scouting in 2007 in conjunction with their Jamboree to celebrate the 95th year of Scouting in Hong Kong. This was held from 27 December 2006 to 1st January together with contingents from Australia, Canada, Korea, Macau, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

For the first time in the region, a regional workshop on events management was held from 11 to 14 October 2006 at the International Conference Centre (ICC), in Jeju Island, Korea.

On 31st October 2006, President S R Nathan inaugurated the Singapore’s elite group of Scouts who have achieved the highest Scouting rank.

To effectively implement the Scout training programmes to young people, the Asia-Pacific Office supports the training of leaders, making Sri Lanka as the latest national Scout organization to organize a leader training course.

A total of 46 participants (34 for Scout section and 12 for Cub Scout section) gathered from 20-26 November 2006 in Kuda Bandos Island, Maldives to participate in the Advance Unit Leader Training Course (AULTC) conducted by the Scout Association of Maldives to further promote the quality of Scouting in the country.

A number of initiatives were made to accelerate the promotion of Rovering across the region and organizing the first regional woodbadge training course is one of them.