Pinky's hopes of AEC integration dashed...

[lesMISERABLES]

Southeast Asia's 2015 unity dream collides with reality

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/southeast-asias-2015-unity-dream-collides-reality-212216230.html

Excerpts from the article

Southeast Asian nations have quietly begun to row back on a deadline of forming an "economic community" by 2015, confirming what many economists and diplomats have suspected for years as the diverse group hits tough obstacles to closer union.

Rather than referring to the end of 2015 as a firm goal, officials at this year's first summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose 10 members range from glitzy Singapore to impoverished Myanmar, prefer to call it a "milestone" to be built on in years ahead.

In so doing, they are bowing to the reality of slow progress and even some regression on politically sensitive goals, such as eliminating non-tariff barriers and lowering obstacles to the free flow of labor in the diverse region of 600 million people.

"This kind of exercise - highly ambitious, short time-lines - simply works to fracture the organization (Asean) further."

Domestic political pressures have limited steps to liberalize worker migration within ASEAN to a handful of professions.

 

[Tuayapeh]

Southeast Asia's 2015 unity dream collides with reality

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/southeast-asias-2015-unity-dream-collides-reality-212216230.html

Excerpts from the article

Southeast Asian nations have quietly begun to row back on a deadline of forming an "economic community" by 2015, confirming what many economists and diplomats have suspected for years as the diverse group hits tough obstacles to closer union.

Rather than referring to the end of 2015 as a firm goal, officials at this year's first summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose 10 members range from glitzy Singapore to impoverished Myanmar, prefer to call it a "milestone" to be built on in years ahead.

In so doing, they are bowing to the reality of slow progress and even some regression on politically sensitive goals, such as eliminating non-tariff barriers and lowering obstacles to the free flow of labor in the diverse region of 600 million people.

"This kind of exercise - highly ambitious, short time-lines - simply works to fracture the organization (Asean) further."

Domestic political pressures have limited steps to liberalize worker migration within ASEAN to a handful of professions.

wtf did you think Pinky was trying to do?


integrate everyone into a bigger group then declare himself their supreme leader understand??? hahahaha which country is dumb enough to let this stupid cheebye try to do that to them? he cant conquer their countries but nothing a few billion from his private citizens' piggy bank cannot achieve through those respective countries' corrupted leaders right?

nice try motherfucker.....

 

[borom]

Just want to make a minor correction (in red)to a largely accurate report

" With the exception of Singapore, domestic political pressures have limited steps to liberalize worker migration within ASEAN to a handful of professions".

 

[enterprise2]

ASEAN is more NATO than NATO itself!!!

 

[johnny333]

..Domestic political pressures have limited steps to liberalize worker migration within ASEAN to a handful of professions...

The PAP doesn't have to worry about it's "lesser mortal" citizens like in the other ASEAN countries. There's no credible strong opposition in parliament to threaten the status quo that exists in Spore.

 

[maxxi]

I was wondering about The 'Code of Conduct' in South China sea is only aspiration? what if China does not want to play?

They will tell all claimants to F.O this is our lake! then how?