The Philippines is the coordinating country for the 4th ASEAN Quiz which will be held from November 30-December 4, 2009. Designated as the implementing agency is the National Broadcasting Network with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Education, Office of the Press Secretary, Bureau of Broadcast Services and the Philippine Information Agency as cooperating agencies.
As approved in the Preparatory Meeting, the theme of the 4th ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition is “Towards Building the ASEAN Community-Preserve Green ASEAN”.

The ASEAN Quiz, which started as a project of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information in 2002, is a biannual competition on knowledge of ASEAN participated in by students of private and public high schools from the ten ASEAN member states.

It aims to elicit the spirit of healthy competition among the ASEAN youth on the secondary school level in a friendly quiz game that educates the youth about the various ASEAN cultural, political, economic and social information; create awareness among the youth and the general public on ASEAN and its Member States; increase public awareness by involving the media in providing wide media coverage and publicity of the event and by encouraging linkages and the participation of the private sector in the event.

It  will be held from 30 November-04 December 2009 in Quezon City, Philippines. The venue of the Quiz Proper on December 3 will be at the Henry Lee Irwin SJ Theater, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.

It will be aired on NBN Channel 4 on December 13th and December 20th at 2PM.

Participants

Nine (9) ASEAN member states — Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam and the Philippines will participate in the 4th ASEAN Regional Quiz. Malaysia will not be able to join in this year’s Quiz owing to a conflict with its dates for the national examinations for students.

Each member state will have four delegates – three (3) students and one coach/country coordinator.

The Philippine delegates are John Carl A. Camayan of Cagayan National High School, Aries Joseph Hegina of Naga City Science HIgh School, and Churchill John Tabuada of Labangal National High School, General Santos City.

Delegates are expected to arrive on November 29 and 30, 2009 and depart on December 04, 2009.