On April 19, 2007, ARENA co-hosted “Migration and Marriage in Asia,” a workshop aimed at raising awareness about the marriage migration phenomenon in Vietnam, while building partnerships with local Vietnamese NGOS and other international organizations. ARENA Program Convener (“Three-year cooperation among marriage-migrant groups for new citizenship of marriage-migrant women in Asia--Marriage Migration in Asia”) Le Thi Quy first initiated the event in coordination with the Center for Gender and Development (RCGAD) and Hanoi University for Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH). The workshop was part of ARENA’s Marriage Migration in Asia program, the first of its kind to be held in Vietnam on the marriage migration issue.

"To recognize Malay as an official working language will contribute to narrowing and closing political, economic, and cultural gaps and discrepancies that stand in the way of integrating Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia."