Leaders keep Asian comforts

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Series Details 14/03/96, Volume 2, Number 11
Publication Date 14/03/1996
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Date: 14/03/1996

Europe's leaders came back from the EU-Asia summit with more than just a few ideas about promoting partnership and cooperation. Packed in their bags were the magnificent silk shirts that Thai PM Banharn Silparcha instructed them to wear to the summit's first “informal” banquet.

By now, they should also be sitting in the plush armchairs they spent so much time in at the summit. Banharn is shipping the sofas to Europe, apparently because the EU heads' behinds have become used to unparalleled Asian comforts.

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