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need to facilitate each other that help us make the landscape

a leveled playing field for everyone. But if we keep requiring
that you have to have national certificate of basic education
(M.6 in Thailand) then you are not going to facilitate this

movement of people. If English is the working language of
ASEAN, I am a Filipino doctor, I come in, I apply to work in

Bangkok not on the hills of Mae Hong Son so I don’t need
Thai language. I would like to set up my clinic on Sukhumvit,
and if I am an engineer, I want to set up my office on Sathorn.

Do I need to learn to speak the language of the country where
I want to be employed or where I want to move to?

These are, I think, requirements that hinder rather than
facilitate. Then, it will have problems, other practical problems.
You mentioned something like insurance. How much for

skilled workers can have accessed to the insurance, facilities
available in that particular country? Because if we are definitely

integrating more and more, there were about 1.9 million ASEAN
workers moving around ASEAN back in 1990; right now, there
are 6.7 million working, most of them are unskilled, for sure,

but we are moving to each other more and more. This one
figure that I’m not comfortable with and that is an economic

community; our productivity, our GDP combined is about 2.6
trillion US dollars, our trade combined is about 2.7 trillion US
dollars, but we trade 75 percent of our trade with the rest of

the world, only 25 percent among our 10 percent. That has to

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