Kazakhstan to start building rail link between Southeast Asia and Europe
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan  - Kazakhstan will start building a railway link next year connecting Southeast Asia with the European Union, Transport Minister Kazhymurat Nagmanov said Wednesday.
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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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Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations started a two-day summit in Vientiane on Monday, focussing on deepening economic integration to create a powerful bloc that could compete with the United States and Europe.
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JAKARTA : ASEAN finance ministers ended a meeting which saw Southeast Asia edge closer to a Europe-style single market, laying out a &quot;road map&quot; for integration and opening doors to wider global trade.
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IN LATVIA NATO today begins one of the most important summits in its 57-year history as the alliance attempts to adjust to a new role, with one country, Afghanistan, dominating the agenda.Comment
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CHOLPON ATA, Kyrgyzstan  - Russia's electricity monopoly agreed Friday to help build two power stations in Kyrgyzstan to allow the central Asian country to increase electricity exports.
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A planned rail freight service between Germany and China has been backed by six countries, Chinese media says.
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Kazakhstan is in talks with a French architect whose firm designed Paris's Parc des Princes and Montreal's Olympic sports complex to build a world-class cycling arena for the former Soviet republic, Akhmetov's office said.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers and counterparts from northern Asia powerhouses - Japan, China, and South Korea - agreed Saturday on steps toward free trade
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Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia has given the go ahead for the construction of a $1.2bn oil pipeline that will pass through the Balkan peninsula.
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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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RBC, 22.10.2004, Almaty 17:38:00.Foreign Ministers of the members of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building measures in Asia (CICA) have signed a declaration on the meeting of CICA ministers and approved the Confidence-Building Measures
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The nearly completed bridge over the Panj River is at the center of plans to connect trade and energy markets in South and Central Asia.
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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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Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Beijing, 19 December: A joint Chinese-Kazakh declaration and an economic cooperation blueprint will be signed during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to China, which starts today.
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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.
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Expedition 10, the latest crew to take up residence on the International Space Station, is set to launch from Kazakhstan.