Fifth Asia-Europe Meeting opens in Hanoi
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The 5 th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 5) officially opened in Hanoi on Friday morning with the participation of top leaders and high-ranking officials from 39 ASEM member countries and more than 1,200 domestic and foreign reporters.
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PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday launched a series of bilateral meetings with his European counterparts, as he flew into the city to attend his first international forum since taking over the reins of the Singapore Government.
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Asian leaders, increasingly confident of their region's economic and political clout, are due to tackle issues ranging from trade to security with their European counterparts at a Helsinki summit.
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Friday marks the beginning of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Hanoi, where themes such as terrorism and trade will be discussed.
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Leaders from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are gathering in Vientiane, capital of Laos, for a summit meeting among themselves and a series
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VIENTIANE  - The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations are holding summit talks to speed up economic integration and forge an economic bloc capable of standing up to rising competitors such as India and China.
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Long on talk and short on substance, the only forum exclusively dedicated to dialogue between Asian and European leaders is still trying to prove its global relevance after its latest summit here.
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Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), an informal dialogue between the two continents, Thursday embraced 13 new members. Among the new members are three ASEAN countries -- Laos, Cambodia and
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Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM5) are a model to be followed, said Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker at a press briefing in Hanoi on Friday afternoon.
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Asian and European leaders were set to admit 13 new nations to a high-powered regional forum riven by discord over one of the countries slated to join -- military-ruled Myanmar.
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HANOI : Asian and European leaders began arriving in Hanoi on Wednesday ahead of a summit aimed at boosting political, economic and cultural ties despite profound inter-regional differences over Myanmar.
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HANOI, Vietnam  - An Asia-Europe forum accepted  Myanmar and 12 other new members Thursday ahead of a summit  strained by Yangon's human rights record and detention of  democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on Saturday afternoon held talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder who is in Vietnam for ASEM 5. At the meeting, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai thanked the German Chancellor ...
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra today joined other leaders of Asian and European nations in concluding the 5th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM-5), which had been held in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi since 7 ...
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Leaders from 38 Asian and European countries are in Vietnam&#39;s capital Hanoi for the fifth Asia-Europe summit. The European delegations say they will use the meeting to protest against the
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HANOI, Vietnam  Â Vietnam is having a Paris Hilton moment.
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The European Union has concluded talks  with Vietnam on its entry into the World Trade Organization,  clearing a major hurdle in the Southeast Asian country's  attempts to join the group by 2005.