progress and remaining challenges, and formulated common policy objectives and a practical reform agenda. Awareness of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance is now high in the region. In fact, all

?SECID=583. Stakeholders and interested parties are welcome to submit comments and recommendations via the website. For electronic comments, please send an email to rattaya@sec.or.th or sumitra@sec.or.th

business operators in preparation for the full liberalization of securities business licensing in 2012. Also, we expect to see more public hearings on issues of high impacts, particularly those concerning

. Minority shareholders have limited influence on actual board selection and high barriers to call a GMS, influence the meeting agenda, or bring legal action against the company or a director under the law

Thailand.    SEC has made the public hearing document available at  www.sec.or.th/hearing Related persons and interested parties may express their comments on the SEC website or send comments to e-mail

and enforcement. F. Cross-border co-operation should be enhanced, including through bilateral and multilateral arrangements for exchange of information. High levels of cross-border ownership and trading

not be complicated or costly for shareholders, and the meeting location to be easy to reach. 1.4 The board should allow shareholders to send their questions to the company prior to the 63Section 1

, and shall be in the form of high quality assets with adequate liquidity. Securities clearing houses and central securities depositories shall establish clear plans to obtain additional sources of funds