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Localising production chains best for AEC

News, Pavida Pananond, Published on 25/01/2016

» It is supposed to be a new dawn in Southeast Asia, but the reality on the ground feels otherwise. The Asean Economic Community -- with its three integrative pillars of political and security, economic and socio-cultural -- is much less than meets the eye on paper. Asean integration is still a pipe-dream, an ongoing project in fits and starts that has a canny way of projecting more than it delivers.