Asia, Europe seek closer and smoother economic relations
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More than 300 business delegates from Asia and Europe gathered in Hanoi Thursday to seek more opportunities to promote free flows of trade and investment between the two continents in the coming years.
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Leaders of 10 South East Asian nations have started a two-day summit in the Laos capital, Vientiane. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting will focus on deepening economic integration
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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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Europe&#39;s top trade official yesterday called for a &quot;fresh start&quot; in trans-Atlantic relations, less than a week before he is to meet his US counterpart to discuss grating commercial disputes.
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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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The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is to hold its fifth summit on Friday and Saturday, and state and government leaders of Asian and European countries will exchange views on international
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Global air travel is set to be boosted by an increase in travel between Europe and Asia, thanks to growth in both China and India.
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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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Europe and the United States have been busy in the past year mending their relations damaged by deep divisions over the Iraq war, the Middle East peace process and trade issues.
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The European Union and Russia moved closer on thorny issues of trade and political relations at a summit here on Friday that steered clear of confrontation on major policy disputes.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers began talks to discuss ways to speed up economic integration and free trade in an effort to move closer to establishing a regional economic community.
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Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states pledge to bolster anti-terrorism measures and efforts to lower trade barriers.
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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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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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European and Asian leaders, representing nearly half the world's population, began rounding up talks here with calls to help workers profit more from globalisation, promises to keep up the battle against terrorism and pledges to tackle global warming.
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Thirtynine leaders from Asia and Europe yesterday began informal talks on issues on trade, security threats and terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
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VIENTIANE, Laos  - Japan and India courted  southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, a day after China signed a  landmark deal with ASEAN to create an Asian free trade market  of 1.8 billion people by 2015.