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The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) trade ministers meeting ended with participants failing to issue the traditional joint statement in Bangkok on Sunday.

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.

In keeping with traditions, reporters on the Government House have come up with nicknames for the government and its ministers. Here are some of the monikers handed out this year:

Thailand is ready to employ the BCG – bio, circular and green –model to help rebuild the economy, Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said at the 32nd Apec Minister’s Meeting on Monday.

Trade ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed to cooperate in eliminating forced labor from international supply chains at a meeting held in London on Friday, marking the first time the G7 has presented a concrete policy to eliminate such practices.

Two ministers from the Chart Thai Pattana Party have said they will not give up their House seats as they are quite confident they can function both as Cabinet members and parliamentarians, party leader Kanchana Silpa-archa said on August 24. 

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan on Tuesday urged five Cabinet ministers from the Phalang Pracharat Party to vacate their party-list House seats so that they could be filled by candidates on the waiting list, a party source said.

The secretary general of the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission will today brief Cabinet members about the requirement for them to declare their assets to the anti-graft agency within 60 days of being sworn in.

Asean will study its outlook on the Indo-Pacific region when its foreign ministers gather with their counterparts from 20 other dialogue partners in Bangkok next week.

London - British Prime Minister Theresa May faced the public on Friday to defend her Brexit deal as she battles to salvage the agreement and her own political future.

Ministers optimistic as Differences narrowed down to single draft negotiating text on South China Sea.

Global trade conflicts triggered by the protectionist policies of US President Donald Trump are set to dominate this weekend's meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires.