Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. ASEAN Handicraft Promotion and Development Association (AHPADA) was established as a result of a Workshop on Handicraft for Export which was (1) _____ by the Royal Thai Government in February 1981 in Bangkok.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. AHPADA was formed as a forum for both the government and private sectors that are concerned with meeting and complementing each other in the promotion and development of handicrafts (2) _____.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. The (3) _____ members were Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. Singapore and Brunei join in a little (4) _____.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 1. To take common approach to develop and promote the marketing of crafts (5) _____ and outside the ASEAN Region.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 2. To operate as a main point of promotion of ASEAN handicrafts and raw (6) _____ required-for production, trade fairs and exhibitions.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 5. To (7) _____ traditional craft skills within the context of conservation of cultural heritage.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. With the recent economic downturn in (8) _____ ASEAN Countries,

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. Most producers are among the rural areas and (9) _____ majority of them are very small entrepreneurs.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. (10) _____ 1981 AHPADA has been able to act as a catalyst and initiators in the promotion and development of ASEAN CRAFTS through seminars, workshops and exhibitions, often in partnership with several multinational and international organizations.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a multilateral organization which was (26) _____ to give Southeast Asian states a forum to communicate (27) _____ each other.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. to communicate (27) _____ each other.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. Since the region had a long colonial past and a history of endemic warfare, there has never been much peaceful and constructive (28) _____ between kings, presidents and other officials.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. A neutral forum was, (29) _____, a very useful development for all of those

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. ASEAN was formed as a result of the Bangkok (30) _____ of 1967…

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. …and initially had five members: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, (31) _____ Philippines and Singapore.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. Brunei (32) _____ joined in 1984 after it had won independence from Britain.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. (33) _____ several years of negotiation, Myanmar and Laos joined in 1997 and the final member of the ten, Cambodia, joined in 1999.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. The only (34) _______state in Southeast Asia which is not a member of ASEAN is now East Timor.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. It is still (35) _____ vulnerable and fragile to be able to participate for the foreseeable future.