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Asean News
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Asian Leaders Focus on Freer Trade
Leaders expressed cautious optimism about increasing trade within the region, lowering tariffs and plans for a wider Asian free-trade zone.
Southeast Asian Nations Talk of Economic Union
The group would be modeled on the European Union but analysts say some governments may not make the kinds of sovereignty concessions needed.
In Southeast Asia, Unemployed Abandon Cities for Their Villages
As a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations begins, the region is expecting an exodus of workers to return to the family farm as a result of the downturn.
Clinton Praises Indonesian Democracy
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Indonesia saying she wanted to pay tribute to its hard-won democracy.
The End of Intervention
Is the international system a collection of legal nuts and bolts cobbled together by governments to protect governments, or is it a framework intended to make the world a more humane place?
U.N. Leader Aims to Get More Aid in Myanmar
The secretary general of the United Nations hopes to pry open the door to more international aid to Myanmar at what he called a ?critical moment? in the country?s slow recovery from a deadly cyclone.
Myanmar to Allow Copters to Deliver Aid, U.N. Says
The United Nations will use nine helicopters from the World Food Program to reach areas that have so far been largely inaccessible, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
Myanmar to Widen Neighbors? Aid Role
Bending to international pressure, Myanmar will let its neighbors in Southeast Asia help coordinate relief.
International Pressure on Myanmar Junta Is Building
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said a natural disaster ?is being made into a man-made catastrophe.?
Differences on Myanmar Weaken Asian Trade Pact
Southeast Asian leaders sign charter in Singapore that was drafted as watershed document to bind region together in European-style economic community, but pact has instead exposed sharp divisions over one of its members, Myanmar; Pres Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of Philippines says that unless Myanmar committed itself to democratic reforms and released Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, her country's Congress was unlikely to ratify Asean charter
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