Southeast Asia edges closer to economic integration
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Singapore: Southeast Asia edged closer towards European-style economic integration and historic trade deals with its giant neighbours in 2004 as the region&#39;s economies rebounded from last year&#39;s SARS crisis.
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Economic ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Friday to liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creation by 2020 of a regional economic community akin to the European Union.
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The head of DHL express delivery in Asia is applauding efforts by Thailand and Singapore to speed up economic reforms in Southeast Asia, but he warns that if the region doesn&#39;t work better as a group, less developed nations will lag farther behind.
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TALKS on a free trade agreement with China will begin in March, opening a porthole to the world&#39;s biggest market. An Asia-Pacific regional trade agreement, potentially worth more than $190 billion, also looks more likely than ever before.
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VIENTIANE: China and Southeast Asian countries were Monday to sign historic trade pacts paving the way for the world&#39;s biggest free-trade zone, which could eventually include the rest of Northeast Asia and India.
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JAKARTA: Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday said Southeast Asian countries must be more open if they are to create an economic community able to compete with regional powerhouses India and China.
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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 former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
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Vientiane: The 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) today decided to establish a &#39;formidable regional grouping&#39;, comprising India and China as well, that will rival the trade blocs of Europe and the United States.
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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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Southeast Asian leaders and their dialogue partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand converge today at the opening of
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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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[Business India]: New Delhi, Oct 17 : Ahead of a India-Asean business summit here Tuesday, a report said that diversification of the export basket and more joint ventures could boost trade between India and the southeast Asian regional grouping.
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The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday agreed to pick up the pace in combining its economic strength to create a powerful regional
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Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on Sunday to start implementing a planned free trade area (FTA) with economic powerhouse India in January next year.
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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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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro  Koizumi wooed southeast Asia on Tuesday a day after regional  giant China signed a landmark deal with ASEAN to create an open  Asian market of 1.8 billion people by 2015.
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JAKARTA, IndonesiaâEconomic ministers from the 10-member AssociaÂ­tion of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Friday to liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creaÂ­tion by 2020 of a regional economic community akin to the European Union.