Asia, Europe Seek Better Business Ties
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Asian and European business leaders at a joint forum pushed for greater trade between their regions Thursday, with Asians calling for more transfer of technology to their countries and Europeans demanding greater Asian investment.
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SINGAPORE intends to promote Islamic banking products to expand its reputation as a financial hub, and will collaborate with countries such as Malaysia and Brunei in this area.
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Asian countries are clamoring for planes to meet surging air travel demands, giving Boeing an edge in the region.
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Businesses are starting to sour on Asia and turning to Latin America and the U.S. for IT services.
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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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Asian leaders, buoyed by their region's rapidly increasing economic and political clout, tackled issues ranging from trade to global warming with their European counterparts at a Helsinki summit.
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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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Europe pressed Asia on Sunday to   address concerns about worker rights abuses as it grows into an   economic powerhouse and said the region must take a bigger role   in tackling global climate change.
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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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After decades of booming trade relations with China, Hungary is now aspiring to grab a chunk of the foreign direct investment (FDI) the Asian giant is set to channel to overseas countries, observers and ...
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The move illustrates deep divisions within Europe over how to deal with the surge of Chinese exports and the job losses caused by the outsourcing of production to Asia.
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European Union leaders pressed other  trading powers on Friday to move to wrap up more than five  years of global trade talks, making clear the EU would also  pursue the option of bilateral deals with Asian partners.
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China will make more efforts to boost its trade volume with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), one of China&#39;s most important trading partners to date and together have promising economic cooperation in the future, a Chinese
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Rather than waiting for the American economy to get worse, companies in Asia are changing how they operate.
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China and the European Union are making efforts to map out a new agreement, aimed at nailing down their strategic partnership into legal framework amid ever stronger political and economic relations.Comment
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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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An EU-India summit on free trade raises the prospects of a deal between Europe and the sub-continent.