Press Releases from AseanAffairs (3 total)
Sixth Asean Leadership Forum: Asean Urged to Boost Domestic Spending
With export markets in crisis, Asean should turn its focus to investing at home, using the huge reserves available, a Thai speaker told the audience at the Sixth Asean Leadership Forum held here Friday.
Narongchai Akrasansee, chairman of the board of directors of Export-Import Bank of Thailand and former minister of Commerce, blamed heavy reliance on the strength of the US currency and the financial market for part of the economic…
AseanAffairs Breaks the News of Latest Attempts to Revive Kra Canal
The push to reactivate the Kra Canal Project - the multi-billion-dollar venture to redraw the maritime map of Southeast Asia - is quietly regaining momentum, says Swarup Roy, CEO and founder of TIME International Management Enterprise, publishers of AseanAffairs magazine.
The Bangkok-based, English language bi-monthly, claims that it is the first to report on the latest attempts to reactivate the long-dormant project that has been shrugged off as a pipe-dream.
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Exclusive Interview with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Published in Asea …
Asean Affairs, the Voice of Southeast Asia based in Bangkok and distributed worldwide (34 Countries, 4 Continents) announced the availability of its exclusive interview with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the founder of Asean Affairs Mr. S. Roy. This interview covered a broad range of topics including: How to get Thailand back on its feet, parallels between his election and US President Barack Obama, and his thoughts…
