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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is to visit Malaysia and sign the deal with his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Tun Razak. The FTA signing comes into force in January 2010, and is in line with the Asean/New Zealand FTA that is also effective from January....
Tags: Asean/New Zealand FTA, Malaysian, Australia-New Zealand, trade deal, free trade, prime minister, John Key, minister john, trade agreement, asian nations
Thailand, Japan suggests European Community-style group of Asian nations; PM Key hopes NZ will be involved
Tags: Thailand, Asian Trade Bloc, prime minister, Japanese, Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific, East Asia Summit, China, asian nations, asian leaders
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 23 : Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations inaugurated the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) in the summit held here Friday, Xinhua reported. The leaders announced "Cha-am Hua Hin Declaration...
Tags: asean, Thailand, ASEAN Summit, Southeast Asian, asian nations, Hua Hin, asian leaders, summit opened, rights body, Thaksin Shinawatra
Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton is among the foreign ministers and high-level delegates from 26 countries scheduled to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Regional Forum, which begins Friday on the southern island of Phuket. Thailand's...
Tags: Thailand, ASEAN Regional Forum, region forum, North Korea, southeast asian, asian nations, China, Asian, Phuket
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, June 4 (PNA via PLDT) –- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo witnessed on Monday the signing of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Republic of Korea (ROK) Free Trade Agreement on Investments here. The President...
Tags: South Korean, Korea University, southeast asian, financial crisis, asian nations
Global Financial Crisis Key Asian countries have reached agreement on a regional foreign-exchange reserve pool...China and Japan will each give 38 billion each while South Korea will contribute 19 billion...The reserve was set up to help countries cope...
Tags: Asian Development Bank, economic downturn, Japan, asian nations, Indonesian, external auditors, audited financial, liquidity fund, asian countries, financial statement
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) decision to triple its capital base may lead to a corresponding increase in social and environmental harm across the region, a group which monitors the lender's activities said. The ADB's capital hike could easily translate...
Tags: Asian Development Bank, Southeast Asia, Japan, ADB, finances ministers, Indonesian, asian countries, trillion yen, Bali Sun, asian nations
Thursday, 30 April 2009 23:45 New Delhi – The US State Department on Wednesday lauded the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) for facilitating humanitarian assistance to victims of Cyclone Nargis, which slammed into...
Tags: United Nations, Cyclone Nargis, southeast asian, asian nations, US State Department
China, Japan and South Korea - amid the global financial crisis. Finance ministers from Asean and the three partner countries agreed to expand their currency pool from $80 billion to $120 billion. The agreement, which is an extended version of the Chiang...
Tags: Philippines, asian nations, China, ng pilipinas, used dollar, Bangko Sentral, sentral ng, exchange reserves, Japan, South Korea
Wednesday. "Many Asian nations will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today's workers," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stressed in a joint report with the...
Tags: Asian, pension systems, asian nations