{"id":236531,"date":"2019-11-04T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236531"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:17:43","slug":"thai-pm-cites-significant-progress-on-rcep-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/04\/thai-pm-cites-significant-progress-on-rcep-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM cites &#8220;significant progress&#8221; on RCEP talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236474\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236474 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191103-b4-AVTO-1JAL-2-1024x693.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte poses for posterity with other leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres during the 10th ASEAN-UN Summit at the Impact Exhibition and Convention Center in Nonthaburi, Thailand on November 3, 2019. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NONTHABURI, Thailand<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday cited \u201csignificant progress\u201d on negotiations for the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that will cover 16 economies in the Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks during the 3rd RCEP Summit here, the Prime Minister said he is \u201cpleased\u201d with the recent developments on RCEP talks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxicillin online <a href=\"https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/amoxicillin.html\">https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/amoxicillin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid the current global trade environment, I believe that successful conclusion of RCEP will greatly contribute to stable and sustainable regional economic development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>RCEP will be between the Asean countries and six partner-states namely China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy avana online <a href=\"https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/avana.html\">https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/avana.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said this economic bloc, once fully operational, will account for one-third of the world\u2019s output, with a market of about 3.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy nolvadex online <a href=\"https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/nolvadex.html\">https:\/\/patersoncounseling.org\/selfservice\/html\/nolvadex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>5 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez represented the country to the 3rd RCEP Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, Lopez said discussions on the mega trade agreement posted \u201csubstantial progress\u201d because it is \u201calmost concluded\u201d, with 18 of the 20 chapters of the text-based rules already approved after the trade ministers\u2019 meeting last November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Asean leaders expect to sign the agreement by February 2020.<br \/>\nBefore the RCEP Summit Monday, only one country still has questions on the rules and reports have identified this to be India, whose officials want clear rules for fear of influx of cheap China products into their economy to the detriment of their people.<\/p>\n<p>Asean member-countries are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NONTHABURI, Thailand\u00a0\u2013 Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday cited \u201csignificant progress\u201d on negotiations for the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":236474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286816,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236531\/revisions\/286816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}