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Asean 'not just for diplomats and officials': PM Lee
Published Fri, Jan 12, 2018 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
IN supermarkets today, Singaporeans can buy Thai rice, Vietnamese coffee and Filipino dried mangoes at "very affordable prices" - this is one of the ways people here have benefited from a free flow of goods and services among Asean countries.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cited this on Friday at an event to launch Singapore's chairmanship of Asean, adding that: "Asean is not just for diplomats and officials."
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