Laos PM prays for ASEAN success
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The prime minister of Laos led tens of thousands of compatriots in a Buddhist holiday ceremony at a golden-spired temple Saturday, praying for the success of an Asian summit with a VIP guest list never before seen in the reclusive
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East Timor will sign a formal request to join the 10-member Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) next week, the tiny nation's new Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said.
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Vientiane (AsiaNews/Agencies) - This morning the Conference of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in Vientiane, Laos.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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VIENTIANE (Laos), Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahamad Badawi on Sunday hailed economic cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and countries out of
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appealed to world Muslim leaders today to help secure the release of Filipino hostages in Afghanistan and Iraq as anxious relatives prayed for their safety.
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VIENTIANE, Laos - Southeast Asian leaders finalized visionary pacts with China and India at their summit on Monday, hoping for a pan-Asian trade bloc to rival Europe and the United States, even as the region grapples with terrorism and epidemics such as
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VIENTIANE (Laos), Nov. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of Korea (ROK) here Saturday welcomed a document under which an ASEAN-ROK Free
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Southeast Asian leaders have opened a two-day summit in Laos aimed at creating an economic community in six years and expanding free trade agreements with Asia&#39;s largest economies.
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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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East Timor's leader urges his countrymen to pray for and forgive ailing former Indonesian leader, Suharto
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The federal government&#39;s refusal to sign a non-aggression pact with Australia&#39;s Asian neighbours is causing tension ahead of Prime Minister John Howard&#39;s visit to the ASEAN leaders&#39; summit in Laos, a newspaper report says.
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VIENTIANE : A record number of agreements are expected to be signed at the 10th ASEAN Summit in Laos. The leaders&#39; summit will take place on Monday and Tuesday and already trade
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Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV), four less-developed countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on Sunday vowed tofurther their sub-regional
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Laotian officials hosting the 10th annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations made final arrangement Saturday for the summit.
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Anticipating worse violence in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged security authorities on Saturday to work more decisively in their operations to restore peace to the region.
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The Foreign ministers of 10 Southeast Asian countries have started a series of meetings in the Laotian capital Vientiane, to prepare for a summit next week of 16 Asian leaders.