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Two engineers from Thailand stood out among 28 developers from across the Asia-Pacific region, winning the 2022 APEC App Challenge with their creative app that could help find healthy meal choices and reduce food wastage.

Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanavisit called for enhanced efforts from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies to respond to future crises and achieve better and more inclusive economic growth in the region.

A meeting of trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region ended Sunday without issuing a joint statement due to differences over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a Japanese minister said.

A meeting of trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region ends without issuing a joint statement due to differences over Russias invasion of Ukraine, a Japanese minister says.

Representatives of five economies including Japan and the United States walked out of the Apec trade ministers’ meeting in Bangkok on Saturday, in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Thai government source said.

BANGKOK (Kyodo) -- Representatives of five economies, including Japan and the U.S., walked out of a meeting by trade ministers from the Asia-Paci

Delegates from the United States and four other nations staged a walkout on Saturday when a representative from Russia began his opening remarks at a meeting of trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group in the Thai capital, officials said.

Under new plans, countries globally would be able to sign up to new laws to allow people’s personal information to flow freely between jurisdictions.

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network):Thailand will host a meeting of Apec Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) from May 19 to 22 to push for the digital economy and post-Covid economic revival among several goals, a senior Commerce Ministry official said on Thursday (May 5).

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand are due to host three important leaders' meetings in the South-East Asia region this year, according to a joint statement released by the foreign ministries of the three countries on Wednesday (May 4).