Note: This article was originally published in The Straits Times on 25 February 2019. Public Forum on “Thailand’s Asean Chair: Challenges Ahead’’, which organised by ERIA and the the Institute for International and Strategic Studies (IISS), on 12^th February 2019 in Bangkok was featured.

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - According to the alphabetic rules set for the annual rotation of the Asean chair, Thailand is to steward the grouping through 2019 in between Singapore and Vietnam. (Read the full article by using the link above).