Single visa for ASEAN countries planned this year.

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Single visa for ASEAN countries planned this year.

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BANGKOK - A European Union-style single visa for Southeast Asia is expected to spur tourism in one of the world's emerging economic growth centers, officials said Thursday.

The single visa for Association of Southeast Asian Nations member-states will be implemented as early as this year, officials said.

"We would like to have one visa for ASEAN countries. This is for foreign tourists from all over the world to travel to ASEAN countries. They can stay longer in ASEAN countries," Philippine Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo said on the sidelines of a stakeholders' summit here.

ASEAN would work on a single visa despite some policy differences, Thailand's Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said.

"It's not easy, but we are not stopping. We have single visa committee working together," Kobkarn said...
http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/27/ ... st-tourism
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when pigs fly
this has been floated for years, wont ever happen
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:24 am when pigs fly
this has been floated for years, wont ever happen
:thumb: Hahaha. Yup. ASEAN must be extra special when officials can't see how ludicrous they sound when announcing grand (massively improbable) schemes.
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