Malaysian PM calls for FTA with India
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NEW DELHI: Malaysian PM Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmed Badawi on Monday underlined the need to strengthen India-Malaysia economic and trade co-operation through a free-trade agreement (FTA) and invited suggestions to maximise gains from such an arrangement.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero has kicked off a visit to India with calls for closer trade and political ties between Asia&#039;s second fastest-growing economy and a key member of the European Union.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday headed from China to India, hoping for movement from New Delhi on tackling climate change while also building on trade and investment links.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the country's software industry to raise its level of performance despite achieving an average annual growth rate of more than 30 percent since 2002.
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A Malaysian minister says there is no ban on workers from India, but a more stringent policy is in place.
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THE HAGUE, NOV 7: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday made a fervent appeal to Left parties to understand the compulsions that necessitated the hike in oil prices.
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The Treasury secretary is urging a successful conclusion to world trade talks and pushing for expansion of Indiaâs capital markets and the opening of its financial sector.
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India must cut its trade deficit with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says on a visit to Beijing.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has conveyed to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra its concern over the latest incident of violence in southern Thailand.
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East Asian nations must pull together to boost their global stature but Australia and New Zealand should be excluded due to their Western ideology, former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said.
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Economic and trade ministers from Australia, New Zealand and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) hope to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) by 2007 it was revealed yesterday.
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The leader of Southeast Asia&#39;s biggest country, Indonesia, on Friday urged economic ministers from the region to put aside their differences and work toward economic integration akin to the European Union&#39;s.
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The prime minister of Malaysia intervened to head off rising anger among the Southeast Asian country's ethnic Indian population after a rare public rally involving 20,000 protesters led to violent clashes with police.
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Trade ministers from the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have agreed with New Zealand and Australia to recommend the launch of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets his Chinese counterpart on Monday on a trip in which the world's two fastest-growing major economies will seek to put aside a lingering border dispute to build on common ground.
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TONY EASTLEY: For years Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir blocked Australia&#39;s closer involvement with the ASEAN group of nations.
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NEW DELHI: Setting aside last week&#39;s sour notes on Kashmir from across the border, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh welcomed his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz with a call for setting in motion a process that can demolish the &quot;Berlin Wall&quot; between the