Thailand on Monday launched an effort to boost up its "creative economy"sector with an ambition of becoming a"creative industrial hub"in Southeast Asia.
Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot said the Thai government planned to spend 20 billion baht (667 million U.S. dollars) to raise contributions of creative economy to the country 's gross domestic product to 20 percent in 2012 from 12 percent in 2010.
The country also wanted to become a creative industrial hub of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which Thailand is a member.
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