Progress Is Made Toward Free Trade Pacts Linking Asian Regions
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Southeast Asian economic ministers and counterparts from northern Asia powerhouses - Japan, China, and South Korea - agreed Saturday on steps toward free trade
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Singapore: Southeast Asia edged closer towards European-style economic integration and historic trade deals with its giant neighbours in 2004 as the region&#39;s economies rebounded from last year&#39;s SARS crisis.
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JAKARTA : ASEAN finance ministers ended a meeting which saw Southeast Asia edge closer to a Europe-style single market, laying out a &quot;road map&quot; for integration and opening doors to wider global trade.
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Southeast Asian nations and China signed an accord Monday to create the world&#39;s biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their 2 billion people by decade&#39;s end - a key step in their vision of a trade bloc to rival Europe and North America.
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A DAY after their landmark trade deal with China, South-East Asian leaders took their goal of regional integration a few steps further today, preparing for pledges to boost trade and political links with India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand
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Pacific Rim nations have agreed to set minimum standards for two-country free trade pacts proliferating across the region, a consolation prize for business leaders pushing for a 21-nation free trade area to rival the European Union.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Economic leaders present at the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Thursday (Friday in Manila) agreed to strengthen efforts in trade liberalization and free trade.
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A landmark trade agreement between 10 South East Asian countries and China has been signed at a summit in Laos. The deal could eventually unite a quarter of the world&#39;s population in a free trade zone.
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Rising power China moved Monday to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the United States, signing an accord with Southeast Asian nations aimed at creating the world's largest free trade area by 2010 &#151; a sprawling market of nearly 2 billion people.
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JAKARTA, IndonesiaâEconomic ministers from the 10-member AssociaÂ­tion of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Friday to liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creaÂ­tion by 2020 of a regional economic community akin to the European Union.
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Southeast Asian ministers have wrapped up preparations for ASEAN&#39;s 10th summit, which starts Monday. Free trade and expanding ties with Asian neighbors China and India are high on the agenda.
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Six Southeast Asian nations meeting at the ASEAN summit have agreed to speed up efforts to create a free trade zone in the region, the BBC reported Monday.
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Top leaders from the 21 Asian Pacific Economic Forum, concluded on Sunday their two-days Summit in Santiago signing a joint declaration, in which expressed their optimistic views on free trade and good governance, as committed themselves in the fight
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VIENTIANE - China and 10 South-east Asian countries signed historic trade pacts to pave the way for the world&#39;s biggest free-trade zone by 2010, with a total population of nearly two billion people.
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Southeast Asian countries have completed talks on a plan for economic integration, bringing the region a step closer to creating a European-style single market covering 530 million people.
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VIENTIANE -- Southeast Asian ministers yesterday finalized a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a leaders summit, but touchy topics like the lack of democracy in Myanmar and Islamic unrest in Thailand were sidestepped. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting of 10 leaders was a prelude to a two-day summit. ...
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VIENTIANE, Nov. 27. - South-east Asian ministers today finalised a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a summit, but touchy topics like the lack of democracy in Myanmar