The launch of the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs’ Network was held in Hanoi on April 22. The establishment of the network makes a practical contribution to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). In the context of regional integration and the establishment of AEC by 2015, the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs’ Network will help promote trade and economic ties within the bloc and with non-ASEAN nations to strengthen gender equality, women empowerment as well as building a peaceful, stable and prosperous ASEAN region. Being President of the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs’ Network, the Vietnamese Women Entrepreneurs Council (VWEC) is expected to fulfil its tasks and put forth initiatives to develop and improve the network’s status. Delegates asked the AEC and the ASEAN Entrepreneurs Community and development partners to strengthen cooperation and connectivity with the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs’ Network in order to encourage equal opportunities, generate jobs, and promote prosperity within the ASEAN community. They expressed their wish that the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW) will continue to support activities of ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs’ Network in order to bring a better quality life for women in particular and ASEAN people in general. VOV