This is the list, sort of "rewind" of Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia Annual Conferences, organized and funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). Fraser Institute (Canada) was a regular co-sponsor.
It started in 1998 but I attended only starting 2004 when I and some buddies in Manila formed Minimal Government, which we renamed Minimal Government Thinkers in 2008. I have attended all the annual conferences 2004-2016 except in 2007 and 2008. When FNF started co-sponsoring the Atlas-sponsored annual Asia Liberty Forum since 2013, FNF decided that EFN Asia conference in 2016 would be the last.
The photos I took from my previous posts in this blog under "EFN Asia" series, reposting some of them here.
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1st EFN Asia International Conference
November 5-7, 1998, Manila, Philippines.
2nd EFN Asia International Conference
September 19-21, 1999, Vancouver, Canada.
3rd Conf. theme: ”Capital Mobility”
July 27-28, 2000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
4th Conf. theme: “Economic Freedom in Asia”
September 29-30, 2002, Kuta, Indonesia.
5th Conf. theme: “Economic Freedom in Asia”
September 24-27, 2003, Japur, India.
6th Conf. theme: “The Role of Government in Asian Economies”
September 16-18, 2004, Hong Kong.
7th Conf. theme: “Securing Economic Growth: Legal Structures and Property Rights in Asia”
October 1-2, 2005, Phuket, Thailand.
(Day before, September 30, FNF-sponsored colloquium, “The Constitution of Liberty in Asia”, discussing Friedrich Hayek’s book, “The Constitution of Liberty”)
8th Conf. theme: “Preferential Trade Agreements: Local Solutions for Global Free Trade?”
September 12-13, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
9th Conf. theme: “Freedom of Education: A tribute to Milton Friedman”
September 3-5, 2007, New Delhi, India.
10th Conf. theme: “Private Property Rights: The Economic Foundation of a Free Society”
September 18-19, 2008, Manila, Philippines.
11th Conf. theme: “Overcoming the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: The Rule of Law as the Key to Economic Freedom?”
October 9-10, 2009, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
12th Conf. theme: "Migration and the Wealth of Nations"
October 6-10, 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia.
13th Conf. theme: “Competition: Engine for Prosperity”
October 10-13, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
14th Conf. theme: “How Welfare Populism Destroys Prosperity: the Populist Challenge to Economic Freedom”
November 6-7, 2012, Hong Kong.
15th Conf. theme: “Asia, the Middle Income Trap and Economic Freedom”
October 21-22, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.
16th Conf. theme: “Liberalism: Promoting Growth, Reducing Inequality”
November 6-7, 2014, Hong Kong.
17th Conf. theme: “Economic Freedom as a Way to Happiness”
November 23-24, 2015, Thimphu, Bhutan.
18th Conf. theme: “Economic Freedom and Human Rights in Business”
November 22-23, 2016, Manila, Philippines.
There will be sort of revival of Economic Freedom Regional Meeting by FNF this coming Dec. 5-7 in Hanoi, Vietnam. For some reasons, I won't be part of it. I wish the participants and the organizers success in rekindling the ideals of individual liberty, economic freedom, individual choice in the region. The past two years of horrible dictatorial lockdowns -- mandatory closure of many businesses and public transpo, mandatory stay home, distancing and masks, mandatory vaccination or mandatory tests if one is not taking the experimental, emergency-use only vax. Free marketers, liberals and libertarians should learn to push back hard. Such global dictatorship should not happen again.
I thank the FNF for giving me travel grants to attend those past EFN Asia conferences. Thanks Hubertus, Rainer, Siggi, Jules. And thanks Pett, a real "workhorse" in EFN Secretariat work.
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See also:
EFN Asia 66, Meeting 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, September 22, 2018
EFN Asia 67, Program of Conf 2006, KL, June 01, 2018
EFN Asia 68 / API 1, Launching of API in Singapore, December 29, 2018.