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Supawan and I would like to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Safe, Prosperous and Happy New Year 2015. Next year promises to bring BIG changes to English as a second language ESL here in Thailand . We will be introducing the EDU Card during the first half of 2015.  Beginning in January 2015 we will be adding and promoting competitions among all schools who signup for our 1 Baht per student per day campaign (with a minimum of 200 students) 365 Baht for a 12-Month subscription. There will be weekly and monthly prizes awarded for the top achievers. We will also be setting up a regional competitions among all 10 ASEAN member countries. This regional competition will hopefully take place by late 2015. Stay tuned!  Supawan Inbunna   088-249-4917 / 089-201-1680    Supawan Donald Patnaude   081-855-2701    Donald Interview with Paul Maglione one of the co-founders of Entertainment Learning and English...

ASEAN COMMUNITY 2015 BACKGROUND The ASEAN Economic Community ( AEC ) is a plan of economic integration that will lead to the creation of a single market and production base by 2015 and is one of the three pillars to achieve a cohesive ASEAN Community, the other two are political/security and social cultural pillars. The AEC will transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods , services, investment, skilled labour and freer flow of capital.  Free Trade Area ( FTAs ) will ensure ASEAN members gain greater market access in terms of trading partners and attracting foreign direct investments to ASEAN.   The main objectives of AEC are to create a single  market and production base, highly competitive  economic region, region of equitable economic  development and region fully integrated into the global economy.   THE STUMBLING BLOCK   Analysts have voiced their concern that the group’s plan to move towards an ASEAN Community by 2015 is...