Asia-Pacific News

Scouts Canada is more than 100 years old, but is still playing with toy cars. As an old saying goes, ‘never lose the child within you’. The National Scout Organisation has teamed with ‘Hot Wheels’ on a two-year partnership that will see the Mattel...

On 21 September 2012 Messengers of Peace ran a fun online activity to get 10,000 Scouts to “like” our Peace Challenge. Please help us by “liking” our International Peace Day Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ScoutChallenge2012MessengersofPeace...

Following on from the huge success of e-Learning initiatives, Scouts Australia’s new digital platform, Scout Central, has been created solely to provide the best possible resources for Scout Leaders, helping them save time, become more efficient...

Communication technology has played a pivotal role in bridging distances and gathering momentum with a view to disseminate knowledge and bring a focus on key subjects and issues such as environmental problems, health awareness and child rights. In...

Scouts from over thirty countries gathered at the Bungere Scout camp in Gitega, Burundi from 28th July to 5th August 2012 for the 6th Africa Scout Jamboree. 29 African countries and 6 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Italy and...

Located within the border region of Ireland, between Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan, the “Castle Saunderson International Scout Centre” will encourage greater levels of interaction amongst young people from different religious, ethnic and cultural...

The International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21st September each year. In the context of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development that took place in June this year, the UN General Assembly declared that the...

Recognizing the importance of extending Scouting outside the school system and bringing Scouting closer to the community, the second Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Community-Based Scouting (CBS) is being held in New Delhi, India from 21st to 24th...

The Association du Scoutisme Genevois (The Scout Association of Geneva) or 'Scouts de Genève' is celebrating its Centenary. To mark this occasion, early this morning scarves were hung around the necks of 20 statues standing in the city of Geneva...

The Scout Association of Maldives (SAM) is engaging the service of APR Specialists for a week-long consultancy in Malé, the capital of Maldives from 17th to 23rd September 2012. For this visit, the team will focus on building capacities in three...

World Scouting’s Secretary General Luc Panissod was presented with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Silver World Award by BSA National President Wayne Perry on the occasion of the 64th meeting of the Board of the World Scout Foundation which took...

Ten young leaders from different National Scout Organizations in the Asia-Pacific Region are eyeing to be part of the region's Young Adult Members Group (YAMG) for the term 2012-2015. Nominations came from Bangladesh, Scouts of China, Hong Kong...

Over 50 people took part in the Messengers of Peace (MoP) Global Network’s Community Leaders Training that was held in Alexandria, Egypt from 26 to 31 August 2012 in the backdrop of the 30th Arab Scout Jamboree. Participating youth were Scouts (14–17...

September 8-9, Mykolaiv scout county hosted the training seminar within the project of "NOSU" "Platform of the peace: Scouting unites Ukraine" (supported by the World Organization of the Scout Movement). The seminar was held on the basis of Mykolayiv...

Macau, 7 September 2012 – One of the main priorities for the current triennium in the Asia-Pacific Region is membership growth and some serious work had been carried out in the past three years. This review workshop, following the first workshop in...