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Maybe AEC should stand for Asean English Competence
Business, Niall Sinclair, Published on 01/11/2016
» English is not the most spoken primary language in the world; that would be Mandarin Chinese. But when you consider the number of countries where it is either an official language or one in regular use, every other language is a very distant second. More than half of the world's countries use English every day. Ten of those countries, including Thailand, form the Asean Economic Community (AEC), a community of 630 million that has adopted English as its common day-to-day language.
The asean knowledge challenge (Part 2): Building a deep knowledge pool
Business, Niall Sinclair, Published on 21/08/2013
» In an earlier article on April 30, I introduced some of the challenges that Thailand and other countries are facing as the integration of Asean gathers momentum. In this article I will be looking at some of the ways that Thailand can address the challenge of increasing its pool of skilled knowledge workers.