Thailand's ICT Readiness for the ASEAN Economic Community

The ASEAN economic community and medical qualification

BACKGROUND In the regional movement toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), medical professions including physicians can be qualified to practice medicine in another country. Ensuring comparable, excellent medical qualification systems is crucial but the availability and analysis of relevant information has been lacking. OBJECTIVE This study had the following aims: 1) to comparatively analyze ...

Building the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges and Opportunities for Myanmar

In recent years, ASEAN has been accelerating its efforts to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. As a member of ASEAN, Myanmar has a mandate to implement a number of policy reforms, as agreed to in the AEC Blueprint. Key reforms include trade liberalization and facilitation in accordance with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), investment liberalization and facilitation...

Chapter Three 3 Higher Education Development in Cambodia: Implications for the Asean Economic Community

The rise of the knowledge-based economy has made higher education become even more crucial as an engine for economic growth in a global and regional context. This article aims to assess the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia in preparing their graduates for the competitive labour market in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The triple helix model for innovation is ...

Unfinished health systems and policy research agendas for ASEAN Economic Community

This Postgraduate Forum was originally a platform for postgraduate students in health systems and policy of Gadjah Mada University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health and Naresuan University to meet annually to exchange their research studies to strengthen their capacities in involving health policies in their countries. In 2013, ...

India and Asean: the Emerging Economic Relationship towards a Bay of Bengal Community