Singapore agrees to admit globalization foes
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Singapore is allowing 22 blacklisted   anti-globalization activists to enter the country, following   withering criticism of the ban from World Bank President Paul   Wolfowitz.
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers said they would encourage Australia and New Zealand to accede to a non-aggression pact with their 10-nation ASEAN group that South Korea signed.
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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 founding father Lee Kuan Yew.
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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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Malaysia and Singapore on Monday made significant progress in repairing four decades of soured relations, agreeing to hold top-level talks on a range of disputes including
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A landmark trade agreement between 10 South East Asian countries and China has been signed at a summit in Laos. The deal could eventually unite a quarter of the world&#39;s population in a free trade zone.
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JUST AS the diplomatic flap over Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong&#39;s visit to Taiwan dies down, Singapore has been drawn into another cross-straits row.
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Vientiane (VNA) - Foreign ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Saturday in Vientiane, Laos, approved a draft anti-terrorism declaration which is expected to be adopted at the 10th ASEAN Summit on Tuesday.
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Singapore and its close informal ally  Taiwan traded barbs this week over a Taiwan referendum asking  voters about United Nations membership, with Singapore calling  the move "provocative" and "irresponsible."
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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&#39;s new Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has stressed that Singapore will not change its long-held&quot;one-China&quot; policy, and if Taiwan provokes a conflict, Singapore will not support Taiwan.
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Malaysia and Singapore yesterday appeared to have made a breakthrough in solving some of the long-standing thorny issues that have bedevilled ties between the neighbours since they split in 1965.
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Out of the ASEAN summit, South Korea and Singapore said they agreed to form a free-trade deal that covers nine broad areas, including electronics, finance and intellectual property rights.
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The IMF and World Bank say Singapore  breached a deal to let activists attend their annual meetings.
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The Asean group of south-east Asian states sealed a historic trade pact with China today in the latest move towards a pan-Asian trade bloc that could rival the EU and the US.
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Singapore Airlines has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 31 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft that are powered by General Electric Co.
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SOUTHEAST Asian nations were set to sign a free trade agreement with China yesterday, creating an economic region with 1.7 billion consumers and a regional gross domestic product of $US2 trillion ($2.53 trillion).