Note: This article was originally published in RAPPLER on 23 February 2019. ERIA’s study on ‘ASEAN Vision 2040’, was mentioned in an opinion article titled: ‘Thailand puts its spice in ASEAN 2019’.

Keen to bury memories of the diplomatic black eye it got when local protests threw into disarray its ASEAN chairmanship in 2009, Thailand is bent on making sure that this year’s meetings not only go well – but close at yearend with a clear, spicy Thai flavor to ASEAN 2019. (Read the full article by using the link above).