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Southeast Asian and Chinese officials aimed for a free trade area of nearly 2 billion people in talks held Friday to prepare accords for next weekâs Summit in the Laotian capital, while reports of overnight explosions near the
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Southeast Asian trade ministers meeting in Jakarta proposed starting free-trade negotiations with Australia and New Zealand next year to boost exports and investment in the region.
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SANTIAGO: Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday ducked a call to study creating an ambitious free trade area for the region. In a joint declaration, they &quot;welcomed&quot; the proposal from big business but failed to adopt it.
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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
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VIENTIANE, Laos  - Southeast Asian countries and China signed an accord Monday to create the world's biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their two billion people by decade's end - a key step in their vision of a trade bloc to rival Europe and North America.
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Leaders of 10 South East Asian nations have started a two-day summit in the Laos capital, Vientiane. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting will focus on deepening economic integration
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Even as smaller countries of the 10-member Asean grouping have expressed reservations about the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) with China as it will put them at a great disadvantage, efforts are on to remove their misgivings.
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Chinaâs landmark trade agreement with Southeast Asian leaders is the latest example of how the communist giant is claiming a growing role in a region long dominated by the United States.
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SOUTHEAST Asian nations were set to sign a free trade agreement with China yesterday, creating an economic region with 1.7 billion consumers and a regional gross domestic product of $US2 trillion ($2.53 trillion).
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India wants to explore possible free trade agreements with Japan, China and the United States, as negotiations on such deals with Southeast Asian countries progress, the commerce minister says.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recognised China as a full market economy, Chinese state press reported following a meeting of ASEAN finance ministers in Indonesia.
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The first of several free-trade proposals facing this Congress is about to be passed. But it may well be the last &#13;&#10;
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Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in Vientiane on Monday to adopt a roadmap for the establishment of an ASEAN Community consisting of three pillars -- an Economic Community, Security Community and Socio-Cultural Community.
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SHANGHAI : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recognised China as a full market economy, Chinese state press reported following a meeting of ASEAN finance ministers in Indonesia.
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The Asean group of south-east Asian states sealed a historic trade pact with China today in the latest move towards a pan-Asian trade bloc that could rival the EU and the US.
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VIENTIANE, Laos  - Japan and India courted  southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, a day after China signed a  landmark deal with ASEAN to create an Asian free trade market  of 1.8 billion people by 2015.
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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.