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EABC Weekly E-News 2019 14th Edition
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NEWS CORNER
AGM 2019 FOLLOWED BY NETWORKING EVENT
Follow our link to see photos taken at the EABC AGM 2019 followed by Networking Night at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, a Luxury Collection Hotel.
EABC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 2019 IS NOW AVAILABLE!!
We are happy to announce the Membership Directory 2019 has now been published and ready to be picked-up! Members can retrieve it at our AGM event or request it to be sent via postal service to your preferred address (*kindly notify us at your earliest convenience).
Membership Directory 2019 is also available to download in PDF version here
ADVERTISEMENT OPPORTUNITY POSITION PAPER 2019
This Paper is a resource for the Royal Thai Government’s regulators and policymakers to learn about the issues and to find the best approach, our contribution to improve Thailand’s competitiveness for the mutual benefit of the two economies, and for long‐term European investment in Thailand. The Position Paper also plays an important role in the meeting with the European Embassies and the Bilateral Chambers of Commerce.
Advertisements will be included in this Position Paper which again will be a book. This is an excellent opportunity to make a company known directly to high level officials in the Thai government.
The Position Paper 2019 Launch Event has been postponed - TBC
GUILLOTINE PROJECT
The Guillotine Project is a fast track way of reviewing laws and regulations and removing unnecessary or unwanted laws and regulations, or revising them, according to a process.
Please do submit proposals for change or removal of any laws or regulations which are about licences or permits of any kind.
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
UK TO SCRAP PASSENGER LANDING CARDS
May 16, 2019
All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday. Landing cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area.
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RARE EARTHS, THE U.S.-CHINA TRADE WAR AND YOUR PHONE
May 21, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off the supply of chips and processors to Huawei Technologies Co. is hitting China’s biggest tech company where it hurts – its dependence on other nations for the semiconductors and software in smartphones and networking gear. So when Chinese President Xi Jinping showed up days later at a rare earths processing plant, many observers saw a message in the visit: the U.S. has its own tech vulnerabilities, too.
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ADVOCACY TOPICS
Click at icons below to see some of the works from our current 12 advocacy working groups on our website.
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DID YOU KNOW?
WHAT THESE ICONIC FLAGS MEAN
 Leopold V, Duke of Austria is credited with the design back in 1230, the legend stating that upon returning from war his white battledress was soaked with blood. when he removed his belt, the cloth underneath was still white.
The Danish flag represents Christianity and is credited to influencing other Nordic countries to adopt similar styles on their own flags. The Dannebrog flag is generally considered to be the oldest flag in the world, dating back in 1219.
 The white of the French represents the King, and is also the traditional colour of their House of Bourbon who ruled France until the French Revolution. The red and blue represent the city of Paris; these were the colours of the revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille in 1789.
 The German association with the colours black, red and yellow dates back as far as 1840, when the Frankfurt Parliament declared black-red-gold as the official colours of Germany. The colours are said to represent democracy, and the current form of the flag was introduced following Germany's reunification in 1990.
The meaning behind the 9 stripes is supposed to represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death"), while the white cross in the top left hand corner symbolises Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of Greece.
The flag consists of the red cross of St.George (patron saint of England), the Cross of St.Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), and the Saltire of St.Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). Wales, while part of the UK, is not represented in the Union Jack, as at the time the flag was designed, Wales was part of the Kingdom of England.
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