Apec summit begins its business
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President Bush urges North Korea to give up nuclear ambitions at a summit rocked by  protests.
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Asian and European leaders began arriving in Hanoi ahead of a summit aimed at boosting political, economic and cultural ties despite profound inter-regional differences over Myanmar.
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George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, and leaders from other 19 Asian - Pacific nations including China&#39;s Hu Jintao and Japan&#39;s Junichiro Koizumi are beggining to arrive in Santiago to attend to Chile&#39;s APEC summit on Saturday.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of an annual Apec summit in the South American nation.
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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 John Howard has arrived in the Chilean capital Santiago for the APEC leaders summit. Mr Howard says he will be pushing trade and security issues when the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting gets under way this weekend.
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Security, trade and energy will top the agenda when Asian leaders meet in the Philippines next week, with declarations expected on combating terrorism, accelerating economic integration and boosting energy security.
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Thirtynine leaders from Asia and Europe yesterday began informal talks on issues on trade, security threats and terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
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Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim economies opened a two-day summit in Chile yesterday aimed at liberalizing trade and addressing global security concerns, with US President George
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The first APEC protest was staged in Sydney on Friday, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush was due to arrive for a summit of 21 Asia-Pacific leaders, but police and media far outnumbered activists.
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Asian leaders, buoyed by their region's rapidly increasing economic and political clout, tackled issues ranging from trade to global warming with their European counterparts at a Helsinki summit.
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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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Touching down in a city rocked by large, noisy protests, Prime Minister Paul Martin has arrived in Santiago, Chile for this year&#39;s summit of APEC leaders.
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The masters of the world economy head to Washington this week for a historic gathering that will include China for the first time at a dinner after formal Group of Seven business concludes.
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Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Econo-mic Cooperation forum gather in Santiago, Chile today for their annual costume party. The two-day APEC summit has a broad agenda to push the groupingâs original aim of free trade in the region by 2020.
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US companies such as FedEx Corp. and New York Life Insurance Co. are pleading with President George W. Bush to start discussions on a Pacific Rim free-trade bloc as he heads to this weekend&#39;s regional economic summit.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group (Apec).