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Thailand’s strategic location and advanced development makes it a primary gateway to Asia. It is at the center of most ASEAN countries, including Myanmar on the west, Cambodia and Lao PDR on the east, and Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore on the south.

Being at the crossroads of ASEAN and other dynamic markets in Asia such as China and India, allows Thailand access to a burgeoning consumer population overseas aside from its equally huge population of almost 68 million people.

Thailand is far ahead of its neighbors in offering world class infrastructure. Trade and business transactions are made easier through Thailand’s extensive highway system, modern city-wide mass transit, international airports, deep sea ports, and international river ports. As the hub of ASEAN, Thailand advocates for free and fair trade. It is instrumental in the formulation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area and a signatory to a number of other free trade agreements.

Business operators from the US-ASEAN Business Council recently expressed confidence in Thailand’s potential to become a regional hub for trade and investment. Thai News Agency reports that the visiting USABC business delegates, including those from such US leading firms as Caterpillar, Chevron, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, UPS, Ford, Guardian, Time Warner and Coca-Cola confirmed this conclusion while meeting with the Thai Commerce Minister in Bangkok on July 24, 2016.

Since the ASEAN became active last year, Thailand has been widely discussed as the a primary beneficiary of the pact, with the potential for becoming a hub for the entire regions for trade, transportation, education, medical training and facilities, and even as the financial center of Southeast Asia.

Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, serves to Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, during the men’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

By Amanda Mustard, NYTimes, Sept. 2, 2016

BANGKOK — There is no mistaking that particular shade of yellow. It is known as tennis ball yellow, and for years we’ve been watching it blur back and forth in front of us.

Those seemingly fluorescent balls have changed little over the last few decades (they were originally white), but the process of making them is a complex one.

Wilson has manufactured the tennis balls for the United States Open since 1978. In any given year, it cranks out 100 million balls, most of them made in Thailand. Over the course of the 14-day Open, from practice to play, Wilson says about 95,000 balls are used.