Propelling Asean towards AEC


Workers at a garment factory in Hanoi, Vietnam. the reality is that the diversity in economic development among asean states has created irresistible pull and push factors for asean talents and workers to flow from one nation to another in search of their dreams.

MALAYSIA will assume the chairmanship of Asean in 2015. However, a survey by the Asean secretariat in 2013 indicated that the average Malaysian lacked enthusiasm over being part of Asean.

Who can blame us if the first thing that comes to our minds about having more porous borders is – why doesn’t my char kway teow taste the same anymore?

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