{"id":1913,"date":"2011-11-28T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2011-11-28T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:53:18","slug":"thai-newsletter-11-20-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/thai-newsletter-11-20-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai-Newsletter-11-22-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong><em>Special Issue on APEC Meeting: <\/em>\u2018Risk Management must be an Integral Part of Our Growth Agenda,\u2019 Thai Deputy Prime Minister tells APEC Leaders Meeting&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">HONOLULU, Hawaii (Nov. 13, 2011) \u2013 Thailand Deputy Prime Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong, representing the Thai Prime Minister at the APEC Leaders Meeting here, told the gathering that Asia-Pacific leaders \u201cmust do more to advance economic integration\u201d in the region while at the same time recognizing \u201cnew risks and challenges, some of which are non-economic\u201d brought about by integration.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThe challenge before us now,\u201d the Deputy Prime Minister said, \u201cis to maintain job creation and thus global growth by ensuring secure growth\u2026 by ensuring a better management of non-economic risks.\u201d\u00a0 He cited the recent flood crisis that has threatened Thailand and undermined\u00a0strong economic performance.\u00a0\u201cThis natural disaster reflects the harsh reality that even a strong economy and well-planned growth policy can be easily disrupted by uncontrollable natural disaster,\u201d Mr. Kittirat said.\u00a0 \u201cThe shock waves of the flood crisis in Thailand can be felt around the globe with the subsequent disruption of food security and global supply chains,\u201d adding that a natural disaster in one place often becomes a problem for regional economies that are intertwined.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0\u201cNatural disaster as well as other non-economic risks we have faced before, such as terrorism or pandemics, calls for more work on better management of (such) risks,\u201d the Deputy Prime Minister said.\u00a0 \u2018Risk management must be an integral part of our growth agenda,\u201d he said, \u201cAnd with better risk management we can provide the safe and sound environment necessary for long-term economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">He commended the United States for promoting Disaster Resiliency.\u00a0 \u201cNo economy can do this alone.\u00a0 We need to complement our national efforts at disaster management with enhanced cooperation at the regional and indeed global levels.\u201d He pledged the cooperation of Thailand in working closely with APEC and the international community in that regard.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Please [dcs_link icon=&#8221;download&#8221;<br \/>\nurl=&#8221;http:\/\/commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ENewsletters\/Thai-Newsletter-11-22-2011.pdf&#8221;]download[\/dcs_link] here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Issue on APEC Meeting: \u2018Risk Management must be an Integral Part of Our Growth Agenda,\u2019 Thai Deputy Prime Minister tells APEC Leaders Meeting&#8217; HONOLULU, Hawaii (Nov. 13, 2011) \u2013 Thailand Deputy Prime Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong, representing the Thai Prime Minister at the APEC Leaders Meeting here, told the gathering that Asia-Pacific leaders \u201cmust do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}