ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting closes
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Jakarta (VNA) - The 36th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting closed in Jakarta on Sunday after three days, approving a draft framework agreement on strengthening the economic cooperation among ASEAN member countries.
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Australia and New Zealand have cleared the last hurdle to a free trade agreement with the 10-nation Association of South-East Asian Nations, with a meeting of Asian economic ministers yesterday recommending a deal.
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Ministers of some 22 Middle East and North African countries and G-8 nations ended their one-day meeting of &quot;the Forum for the Future&quot; and vowed to continue their reforms.
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Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states in the Apec grouping have ended a summit in Chile with a call for action to lower global trade barriers.
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South East Asian leaders are joined in Laos by officials from six regional powers for this year's Asean summit.
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President Megawati Soekarnoputri urged ASEAN economic ministers gathering here for a key annual meeting to formulate ways of accelerating the integration of the region&#39;s economies.
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Brunei&#39;s Minister of Industry and Primary Resources, Pehin Dato Haj i Abdul Rahman, left the country yesterday to attend the Apec conference in Santiago, Chile.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (CP) - As leaders from Pacific Rim economies gathered for a weekend summit on trade and security issues, their government ministers on Thursday were wrapping up talks on similar issues and jockeying for one-on-one meetings to press their
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The high note which ended the the 10th Asean Summit at the Laotian capital of Vientiane were joined by leaders of Japan, South Korea, India, China, New Zealand and Australia as partners in free trade talks.
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The heads of state of 10 South East Asian countries are meeting in Laos&#39; capital Vientiane for the annual summit of regional grouping Asean.
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Vientiane (AsiaNews/Agencies) - This morning the Conference of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in Vientiane, Laos.
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PRIME Minister John Howard will have a series of bilateral meetings with regional leaders as Asia-Pacific nations gather for a key economic forum.
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VIENTIENE, Laos: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes ASEAN will be able to bring forward the deadline to become an Economic Community before 2020.
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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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HANOI, November 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Chiefs of state and prime ministers are coming to Vientiane, Laos, for the tenth ASEAN summit due on November 29-30.
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Six South East Asian nations will scrap tariffs between them by 2007, Malaysia's PM  says at an Asean summit.
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Asia-Pacific leaders, closing their summit, are expected to call for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks.