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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This roundtable discussion was conducted as part of the research activities by the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. Being the coordinator, I sincerely thank Ambassador Tan Chin Tiong, Director of ISEAS and Dr Wilhelm Hofmeister, Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for their kind support in facilitating the project. I am grateful to both Ambassador Tan Chin Tiong and Dr Hosfmeister for delivering the opening remarks at the roundtable, highlighting the fact that ASEAN needs to strengthen its monitoring process in order to effectively track the implementation of ASEAN economic initiatives. I would like to thank Mr Rodolfo Severino, Head of ASC, for his invaluable advice on the research activity and for writing the foreword for this volume. I acknowledge the chapter writers of this book, who revised their papers to reflect the comments and opinions expressed at the roundtable on 25 May 2012. I thank Ms Moe Thuzar (ASC) who shared her knowledge on Myanmar and ASEAN with us by contributing a chapter in this volume. Special thanks are also due to Lily Koh and Hnin Wint Nyunt Hman (ASC) who assisted me tirelessly in holding the roundtable at York Hotel, Singapore. I would like to thank Mrs Y.L. Lee and her team at ISEAS for the administrative efforts to make the event a success. Finally, I gratefully acknowledge the dedicated support of Mrs Triena Ong and her staff at the ISEAS Publications Unit for the publication of this book. Sanchita Basu Das Editor ...

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