{"id":102651,"date":"2025-10-25T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102651\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:36:12","slug":"thailand-chairs-push-to-finalise-2-trillion-asean-digital-economy-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102651\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Chairs Push to Finalise $2 Trillion ASEAN Digital Economy Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thailand, chair of DEFA talks, demands resolution of outstanding issues by Q1 2026 to ensure the landmark digital framework is signed by next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Thai Ministry of Commerce has set a firm deadline to conclude negotiations on the landmark ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), an accord expected to propel the region&#8217;s digital market value to $2 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthumpun attended the second special meeting of the ASEAN Economic Community Council on DEFA in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, during the 47th ASEAN Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minister&#8217;s goal is to drive the government&#8217;s &#8220;Quick Big Win&#8221; policy by urgently upgrading the digital environment to be more business-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAs the current chair of the negotiating committee, Thailand is playing a pivotal role in driving the agreement towards a concrete conclusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minister Suphajee urged the meeting to swiftly decide on all remaining policy-level issues and set a rigid timeline to complete negotiations by the first quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This acceleration is necessary to allow for the formal signing of the agreement in 2026 in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Thailand, chair of DEFA talks, demands resolution of outstanding issues by Q1 2026 to ensure the landmark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14831,50901,72,30129,113,63425,61,60,40913,1667],"class_list":{"0":"post-102651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-asean","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-digital-economy","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-framework","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-suphajee-suthumpun","17":"tag-thailand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}