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        "id": 1202591,
        "msgid": "asean-wants-japan-funding-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-01-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "ASEAN wants Japan funding",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "ASEAN wants Japan funding BANGKOK (AFP): The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ask Japan to finance its social development fund after South Korea refused to do so, The Nation newspaper reported yesterday. An informal request will be made at a forum next week in Bangkok attended by representatives from Japan and ASEAN member states Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, the paper said.",
        "content": "<p>ASEAN wants Japan funding<\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (AFP): The Association of South East Asian Nations<br>\n(ASEAN) is to ask Japan to finance its social development fund<br>\nafter South Korea refused to do so, The Nation newspaper reported<br>\nyesterday.<\/p>\n<p>An informal request will be made at a forum next week in<br>\nBangkok attended by representatives from Japan and ASEAN member<br>\nstates Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore<br>\nand Thailand, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN's Social Development Committee aims to provide youth<br>\nprograms, family planning and aid after natural disasters, and<br>\nthe issue of funding was at the center of its 19th session held<br>\nin Bangkok from Jan. 10-13.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Thamarak Karnpisit said that financing had previously<br>\nbeen provided by developed countries but this had lapsed in view<br>\nof ASEAN members' dramatic economic strides, the paper quoted him<br>\nas saying.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN, whose members have recorded annual growth of around<br>\neight percent on average, are now considered capable of providing<br>\ntheir own financing.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea had been approached for funds, but declined citing<br>\nbudgetary constraints, said the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Trade between ASEAN and Japan totaled US$72.3 billion in 1993.<\/p>",
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