Southeast Asians Finish China Trade Pact but Avoid Touchy Issues
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Southeast Asian ministers on Saturday completed a free trade pact with China and other accords to be adopted at a meeting of their leaders, but touchy
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Southeast Asian leaders met on Monday to agree a landmark tariff-cutting deal with China, the first flesh on the bones of what will be the world&#39;s largest free trade deal within a decade.
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The leaders of Japan and China agreed to a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of a summit, overcoming a diplomatic impasse between the Asian powers that have been increasingly at odds. The breakthrough came as ministers for 21 Pacific Rim economics pledged Thursday work hard for the passage of a global trade treaty.
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China and the United States ended three days of intense economic talks with new accords on food safety, energy and environmental cooperation but only modest progress in opening Chinaâs financial markets.
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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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SINGAPORE Southeast Asian trade ministers moved ahead over the weekend with plans to fuse their region into a European-style community hefty enough to compete with China and India, setting timetables for free-trade talks with Japan, South Korea, Australia
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BEIJING -- The watershed six-party accord concluded yesterday with North Korea holds huge long-term promise for the Korean Peninsula and beyond, but pitfalls lie ahead.
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Southeast Asian countries have completed talks on a plan for economic integration, bringing the region a step closer to creating a European-style single market covering 530 million people.
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MERAK, Indonesia  - Indonesia's rust-bucket ferries are a symbol of the decrepit infrastructure which has plagued Southeast Asia's biggest economy and prevented it from matching China's meteoric growth rate.
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US and South Korean negotiators have resolved some minor differences as they prepare to wrap up free trade talks ahead of a looming end-month deadline, officials said Monday.
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Members countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced here Saturday they recognize the full market economy status of China.
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China will make more efforts to boost its trade volume with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), one of China&#39;s most important trading partners to date and together have promising economic cooperation in the future, a Chinese
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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.
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China and the United States agreed  broad steps on Friday to tackle global economic imbalances as  two days of talks to ease trade and currency strains ended with  good intentions but modest substance.
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VIENTIANE, Laos -- A day after reaching a deal with China in a bid to create the world&#39;s largest free trade zone, the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations have approved free trade talks with Japan.
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Southeast Asian nations and China signed an accord Monday to create the world&#39;s biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their 2 billion people by decade&#39;s end - a key step in their vision of a trade bloc to rival Europe and North America.
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Top leaders from the 21 Asian Pacific Economic Forum, concluded on Sunday their two-days Summit in Santiago signing a joint declaration, in which expressed their optimistic views on free trade and good governance, as committed themselves in the fight