A new foresight-based model of development planning, developed by the University of the West Indies and the University of Technology, Jamaica with the University of Surrey in the UK, is now in demand in South-East Asia. Professor Anthony Clayton, who leads the foresight project team, has been asked by the UN to present the foresight model at a three-day workshop in Bangkok in December. Delegates from Thailand, Malaysia and other countries across the region will attend the workshop to learn about the new approach to development planning. According to Professor Clayton, some of the Asian tiger economies now face new challenges with the emergence of China as the new global hub of manufacturing. He notes that the textile industry in Bangladesh, for example, is now threatened by the rapidly expanding supply of even cheaper textiles from China, while electronics manufacturers in Japan have to reposition themselves to accommodate increasing, lower-cost competition from their neighbour. The foresight model, which has been used in Africa and the Caribbean, was recently featured by the British Council as being in the top 1% of innovative and successful development projects, and has received similar recognition from the Commonwealth Science Council and the republic of South Africa.