THE government must quickly form a strategy to develop competitiveness if only to avoid being run over by the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which is scheduled to be launched on December 15, 2015.

In just a few months ASEAN, whose population comes to about 600 million people, will become one single market. The free flow of goods, services, money, investment, expertise and intra-regional movement, will happen, barring any major disaster or accid