Malaysia, Singapore Work to Repair Ties
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Malaysia and Singapore on Monday made significant progress in repairing four decades of soured relations, agreeing to hold top-level talks on a range of disputes including
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Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to tackle a series of disputes that have long soured neighbourly relations. The issues include the price of water Malaysia supplies to Singapore and the use by Singapore&#39;s air force of Malaysian military airspace.
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Malaysia's ambitious plan to build a $7 billion trans-national oil pipeline to ship Middle East crude to big Asian importers moved a step closer to reality on Monday after several regional firms signed on as partners.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia and Singapore on Monday made significant progress in repairing four decades of soured relations, agreeing to hold top-level talks on a range of disputes including infringement of airspace and the price of water.
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China and Singapore on Monday  urged the international community to help calm Beijing's  dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers met  on Saturday with counterparts from powerhouses Japan and China,  and made progress toward liberalizing trade and boosting  business, officials said.
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Malaysia and Singapore yesterday appeared to have made a breakthrough in solving some of the long-standing thorny issues that have bedevilled ties between the neighbours since they split in 1965.
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Malaysia's drive to woo investment is losing traction, as efforts to get rid of red tape and inept bureaucrats falter, threatening to put it further behind neighboring Singapore.
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The New Zealand government has agreed to a range of initiatives to build closer ties with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Wednesday.
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BusinessWeek Online - Malaysia has never aspired to be the freewheeling financial hub that Hong Kong and Singapore have become in Asia. For nearly 30 years, the country has been closed to all but a handful of foreign banks -- and they were mostly outfits like HSBC Bank Holdings PLC  and Standard Chartered Bank that had been there since colonial times. During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, foreign banks pared back operations even more. ...
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Singapore and Indonesia are making "good progress" towards concluding an extradition treaty following the first-ever technical meeting on the issue last month between the two countries, Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo said over the weekend.
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JAKARTA - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries are planning to boost regional cooperation in investment amid tight international competition - especially in the sector of infrastructure.
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It will take 50 years or more for Southeast Asian nations to more closely resemble the European Union including the easing of border controls, according to Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew.
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Defending champion Adam Scott and   three-times major winner Ernie Els arrived in Asia for this   week's Singapore Open with big reputations and both will be   happy to have negotiated the first round firmly in contention.
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Talks between India and Pakistan this past week were not just on long-standing political disputes but ways to boost economic ties.
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Singapore&#39;s prime minister is making his second visit in three weeks to Indonesia for talks with new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expected to focus on boosting ties between the two Southeast Asian countries.
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Singapore says it has extended a ban on all poultry and egg imports from Malaysia due to a new outbreak of bird flu there. Singapore says it is working with Malaysia to develop ways to import poultry and eggs