Staff writer
Malaysia has proposed an action program for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to promote the development of worker skills in member economies, especially developing ones that have been hit hard by the current Asian currency and financial crisis.
Malaysia, which will host this year's meetings of APEC ministers and top leaders in November, has drawn up its own draft of the Action Program on Skills Development and has recently presented Japan and the other APEC members with the draft in hopes of getting an APEC endorsement for the document at the meetings.