The Thai political party whose governments have been overthrown by the country's ruling generals denied on Saturday having any role in the bomb attacks on popular tourist destinations that killed four people and wounded dozens.
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Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings after bombs, one after another, exploded in at least five areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more.
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Pacific leaders called Sunday for region-wide free trade and other measures to reduce dependence on the United States and big Western markets as Asia leads the way out of the global economic downturn.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd floated a second model for a pan-Asia economic bloc on Sunday, challenging a Japanese idea by making US involvement a key component of his plan.
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The global economy has likely bottomed out but employment conditions are “dire” and stimulus is needed across Asia to spur domestic demand, Japan's prime minister said. “Prime Minister Hatoyama mentioned that at the moment the global economy is (...)
The Philippines and Thailand are squaring off in an escalating row over rice that threatens to derail a trade pact at the heart of Southeast's bid to build an EU-style economic community by 2015.
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Southeast Asian leaders called Sunday for urgent cooperation and reform to tackle the global financial crisis, as they pushed on with their dream of forming an EU-style community by 2015.
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Leaders of Southeast Asian nations have agreed to fight the global financial crisis with eased macroeconomic and monetary policies, a draft statement by the group obtained on Saturday said.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers ratified on Friday a major free trade area with Australia and New Zealand, while seeking to downplay fears of protectionism as global economic conditions worsen.
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