AEC 16, SIU-HBS ASEAN Scenario Workshop in Bangkok

The other day, October 15, I was in Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in the "ASEAN Scenario Workshop", organized by the Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU) and the Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS). I brought copies of these three papers that I wrote.

 (1) Taxation, Regulation, Trade and Rule of law: Reform Challenges for the Philippines and the ASEAN, published by Stratbase Research Inst. (SRI), now Albert del Rosario (ADR) Institute;

(2) The Case for Unilateral Trade Liberalisation in ASEAN, published by the South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET), Malaysia; 

(3) ASEAN Economic Scenario 2016-2020: Preliminary Projections, published by Alas Oplas and Co. CPAs (my sister's auditing firm).

About 25 participants came, excluding staff  of SIUand HBS, mostly from Thailand, then from SG, MY, ID, PH (me), Myanmar, Bangladesh. 

Among the activities were filling the issues to each of  these STEEP processes.

Venue was a very nice building, C-ASEAN, 10th floor. We were in one of the function rooms.

For years, it was my shortest foreign trip. Bangkok airport immigration stamped my entry Oct 14, exit Oct. 15. I arrived at my hotel almost 1am, checked out 9am, only 8 hours stay incl. breakfast, straight to the workshop, dinner, back to the airport.

Thanks to Kan Yuenyong, SIU Exec. Director, for inviting me. Here, he was giving the intro about the workshop.