Naval Technology: “Thailand was “De-Invited” to the globe’s largest naval exercise, RIMPAC”

According to Naval Technology (NT), Thailand was “De-Invited” to the globe’s largest naval exercise, RIMPAC. The world’s largest naval exercise is  the Pacific. Rim of the Pacific – or RIMPAC – will see ships, submarines and aircraft from 22 nations train together for an intensive four week period, says NT. For the first time in RIMPAC’s…

Thaksin based idea, a Mini Asian IMF, gets funding boosting

The attached ADB paper says: “The idea of the Asian bond market emerged first from Thailand in the summer of 2002. The creation of a bond market requires both issuers of bonds and investors in those bonds. The Thai initiative focused mainly on the investor side as then-Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, proposed that the members…