The design was based on rice, the staple food and probably the most important crop for Southeast Asian people. Since ancient times, rice is always associated with prosperity, welfare and wealth. This corresponds to the vision of the founding fathers of ASEAN to create a peaceful and prosperous region in Southeast Asia. The current design is derived from the previous emblem, also featuring a bundle of padi rice stalks bound together in unity. The different is the rice stalks was six to represent the five founding nations of ASEAN (Indonesia,Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand) added with Brunei (joined in 8 January 1984). The old emblem background was white. The name "asean" was placed under the rice stalks in the centre of a yellow circle with cyan circumference. Both the circle border and "asean" letters were in cyan, while the rice stalks was in golden brown.
After the expansion of ASEAN members with the admission of Vietnam in 28 July 1995, motivated by the vision of ASEAN comprising all ten Southeast Asian nations, there was a suggestion to update the emblem and flag of ASEAN; the addition of four more rice stalks to represent the whole ten ASEAN nations. The three remaining nations; Laos, Burma, and Cambodia were scheduled to join ASEAN on July 1997, to commemorate this auspicious event, the new emblem of ASEAN was unveiled. Laos and Burma (Myanmar) joined in 23 July 1997, however the admission of Cambodia was postponed to 30 April 1999 due to their internal politic problems. Despite the Cambodian postponed membership, the ASEAN new emblem still consisted of ten rice stalks unveiled in July 1997
The design was based on rice, the staple food and probably the most important crop for Southeast Asian people. Since ancient times, rice is always associated with prosperity, welfare and wealth. This corresponds to the vision of the founding fathers of ASEAN to create a peaceful and prosperous region in Southeast Asia. The current design is derived from the previous emblem, also featuring a bundle of padi rice stalks bound together in unity. The different is the rice stalks was six to represent the five founding nations of ASEAN (Indonesia,Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand) added with Brunei (joined in 8 January 1984). The old emblem background was white. The name "asean" was placed under the rice stalks in the centre of a yellow circle with cyan circumference. Both the circle border and "asean" letters were in cyan, while the rice stalks was in golden brown.After the expansion of ASEAN members with the admission of Vietnam in 28 July 1995, motivated by the vision of ASEAN comprising all ten Southeast Asian nations, there was a suggestion to update the emblem and flag of ASEAN; the addition of four more rice stalks to represent the whole ten ASEAN nations. The three remaining nations; Laos, Burma, and Cambodia were scheduled to join ASEAN on July 1997, to commemorate this auspicious event, the new emblem of ASEAN was unveiled. Laos and Burma (Myanmar) joined in 23 July 1997, however the admission of Cambodia was postponed to 30 April 1999 due to their internal politic problems. Despite the Cambodian postponed membership, the ASEAN new emblem still consisted of ten rice stalks unveiled in July 1997
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