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A low-key meeting in 1991 gave rise to the ASEAN Free Trade Area
To this day, when Thai schoolchildren learn by rote the main achievements of their past prime ministers, they are taught that Anand Panyarachun was responsible for the creation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Free Trade Area (AFTA). What this might mean to them ...
Dominic Faulder
Trade between ASEAN, dialogue partners up 13% in 2017
ASEAN recorded a 13 percent increase in trade with dialogue partner countries last year, with China declared the top trader in the region. Director-General of the Department of Trade Negotiations Auramon Supthaweethum revealed today that the ASEAN Secretariat has released a report on the value ...
Surapan Laotharanarit
