Senator Monthian Buntan of Thailand has been elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the term 2013-2016.
Thai private companies have been urged to invest more in foreign countries, in preparation for the ASEAN Economic Community, which is less than three years away.
The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has launched a new project to cope with possible natural disasters. The National Disaster Warning Center has been assigned to serve as the core agency in implementing the project.
The Government has launched a new project “OTOP Plus” to upgrade the standards of Thai community products under the “One Tambon One Product,” or OTOP, program.
Thailand and Malaysia have reaffirmed their close relations and cooperation, despite attempts to cause misunderstanding among them by perpetrators of unrest in the deep South of Thailand.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has reaffirmed Thailand's support for the idea that the convergence of free trade agreements could be a path toward the FTA of the Asia-Pacific, which would be best reached through a combination of bilateral and regional FTA building blocks.
Thailand has urged all APEC economies to facilitate fair and open trade in food in order to ensure food availability and accessibility at reasonable prices.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to visit Russia from 7 to 9 September 2012 to attend the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting.
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