Co.opmart, the retail brand of Saigon Co.op, is marking 30 years since it opened its first supermarket, Co.opmart Cong Quynh, in Ho Chi Minh City in 1996. The anniversary lands alongside another milestone this year, the 50th anniversary of Ho…
ICA-AP’s membership now stands at 124 organizations across 29 countries, with two new Associate Members joining the fold this quarter: the Philippine Chamber of Cooperatives, Inc. and the Malaysia Cooperative Societies Commission (MCSC). The Philippine Chamber of Cooperatives was registered…
The week of 13 July, a new working group, Coop4Care AP, brought cooperative leaders and experts together for the first time to start answering exactly that question. Convened under the ICA-EU Partnership Programme coops4dev, the group is setting the roadmap…
At ICA’s Members’ Chat on 14 July, ICA-AP took the floor to introduce the Pacific Islands Cooperative Network (PICON), a new mechanism for strengthening cooperation and connectivity among cooperative stakeholders across the Pacific Islands. Ms. Monalisa Kashyap, ICA-AP’s Programme Coordinator…
Over 160 participants from across Asia and the Pacific and beyond logged on 21 July for the first session of ICA-AP Committee on Credit and Banking (ICCB)’s new webinar series, Cooperative Finance for the Green Transition, which opened with a…
ICA-AP staff spent four days in Kozhikode, Kerala, from 2 to 5 August, on a learning visit that moved between hospitals, a business school and some of the district’s best-known cooperative institutions, including the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS),…
Coop Colloquium 18, hosted by ICA-AP’s Committee on Cooperative Research on July 28, 2026, brought cooperative leaders, academics and practitioners from across the region onto one webinar, to debate Discussion Draft 3 (DD3) of the ICA Statement on Cooperative Identity,…
From 22 to 26 July, around 30 delegates from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Palestine, the Philippines and Vietnam travelled to Raub, Jerantut and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the ICA-AP Regional Immersion Programme on Cooperative Tourism. Jointly organised by ICA-AP’s…
When war disrupted daily life in Iran this year, phone lines grew unreliable and planning gave way to simply getting through the day. Across the country’s 31 provinces, the cooperative movement rearranged itself around one question: who needs help right…
From 1 to 4 September, Hangzhou, China becomes the meeting point for the 5th Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit (APCYS 5.0), bringing together young cooperative leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers and ecosystem partners from across the region and beyond. Organized under the…