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  Asean group seeks economic action
Date: March  01, 2009  

South East Asian leaders have called for greater co-ordinated regional action to help restore their damaged export-driven economies.The 10 countries in the Asean group endorsed measures to stimulate economic activity, ease access to credit, and stand firm against trade protectionism.They also called for reform of the international financial system
  Burma offers Rohingya return deal
Date: February  28, 2009  

By Jonathan HeadBBC News, BangkokThe Burmese government has said it will take back ethnic Rohingyas who have fled to neighbouring countries.But it will only do so if they identify themselves as Bengalis, as it refuses to recognise the Rohingyas as one of its official minorities.Tens of thousands of Rohingyas have left Burma in recent years and wash
  Asean seals regional trade pact
Date: February  27, 2009  

South East Asian economy ministers have signed a free trade deal with Australia and New Zealand.Members of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) struck the deal on the first day of a summit in Thailand dominated by the downturn.It is thought the deal could bolster the combined economies of the nations by up to $48bn (£33.
  Asia set to boost emergency fund
Date: February  22, 2009  

Asian finance ministers plan to extend an emergency currency fund, hoping to boost their economies and better protect them from the financial crisis.The new size of the multilateral fund is expected to be $120bn (£83.7bn), up from $80bn proposed in 2008, regional grouping Asean said.Emergency funds would be made available to enable nations to bo
  China to allow freer yuan trades
Date: December  25, 2008  

China has said it is to allow some trade with its neighbours to be settled with its currency, the yuan.The pilot scheme was announced in a package of measures designed to help exporters hit by the global downturn.It means if the two parties to a trade have yuan available, they need not enter world exchange markets to pay.Most of China s foreign tra
  South East Asia to launch charter
Date: December  15, 2008  

By Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, JakartaTen South East Asian countries are launching a regional charter setting out their shared aims and methods of working together.The Association of South East Asian Nations, or Asean, has existed for more than 40 years, but until now has had no written constitution.Today s launch is seen as a milestone in the group s
  Democratic deficit
Date: November  22, 2008  

By Vaudine EnglandBBC News, Hong KongThe threat looming from China is not to do with cheap exports but the "dooming of democracy", former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten has told the BBC.Lord Patten said China promoted the idea that one could get rich without needing democracy - and such an idea posed a threat to the West.He said regional bodies su
  Temple of doom?
Date: October  15, 2008  

A long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has just flared up, with soldiers exchanging shots for the first time. The BBC s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head looks at what caused this escalation of tension. At the end of a day when two Cambodian soldiers were killed, several wounded on both sides, and 10 Thai soldiers rep
  Temple of doom?
Date: October  15, 2008  

A long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has just flared up, with soldiers exchanging shots for the first time. The BBC s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head looks at what caused this escalation of tension. At the end of a day when two Cambodian soldiers were killed, several wounded on both sides, and 10 Thai soldiers rep
  Stock markets retreat after rally
Date: October  15, 2008  

Stock markets have lost ground following two days of dramatic rises.Investors fear that government action to strengthen the financial system will not prevent a worldwide recession.The UK s FTSE 100 index was down 1.2% and France s Cac 40 fell 1.1% in early trade. Hong Kong, Indian and Australian stocks all fell.Asian countries joined the global res


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