date:May 28, 2012
By 2015 Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam will be integrated into a EU-like regional economic bloc under the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS).
Under the ACMECS framework, the five countries are committed to five priority areas of cooperation, including the food sector, planning a total of 46 common projects and 224 bilateral projects over the next decade.
Petch Chinabutr, president of the National Food Institute (NFI), said that while Thailands