Singapore Leader: East Asia Diverse
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East Asia is so diverse that it would take a long time for the region to craft an economic community similar to that of the European Union, Singapore&#39;s founding father said Monday.
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Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), which operates the local stock market, aims to have more than half of its listings be foreign firms by 2012, a top executive said in remarks published Thursday.
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The latest economic data from South Korea and Singapore suggests the US slowdown is hitting East Asia.
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By Andrew Yeh and Francesco Guerrera in Hong Kong and Mure Dickie in Beijing. He has been in China on &quot;family matters&quot; since late November but plans to return soon to answer investigators&#39; inquiries, the Singapore
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VIENTIANEâSoutheast Asian foreign ministers on Saturday debated the formation of a new regional grouping with Japan, China and South Korea that would cover one-third of the worldâs population, officials said.
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The Taoiseach has promoted Ireland as Asia's gateway to investing in Europe after arriving for talks today with his Singaporean counterpart.
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Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to work on a proposal to solve some of their long-standing bilateral disputes. Singapore Senior Minister, Goh Chok Tong, and Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The task force of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the control of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) on Monday held its first meeting in Singapore.
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The breast cancer rate is rising among women in Singapore and appears to be approaching that seen in Europe, researchers report. The introduction of a Westernized lifestyle and child-bearing pattern may underlie this trend, they suggest.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The following is a list of initial public offerings (IPOs) set for northeast Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and South Korea.
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Singapore's new Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined his vision for the city-state Sunday, vowing to deliver on his call for a more open society by easing restrictions on free speech in the famously strait-laced country.
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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.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  For many decades, going back tolong before its independence from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore has depended on its northern neighbor for fresh water supplies piped in to supplement the modest resources of its island catchment area.
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VIENTIANE  - The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations are holding summit talks to speed up economic integration and forge an economic bloc capable of standing up to rising competitors such as India and China.
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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 former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
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French President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour with a lightning visit to Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billion-dollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of his discussions with the city-state's leaders.
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Singaporeans have been urged to think out of the box, throw out old ideas and be less conventional by it&#39;s new Prime Minister.