India has opened its air space for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member-states under an open-sky regime, the government said on Friday.
The leaders of the 10 member ASEAN states were confident that the grouping's financial sector remained "solid and sound" as they prepared to guard themselves from the impact of the global financial crisis.
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Monday proposed a special summit of ASEAN leaders and dialogue partners China, Japan and South Korea to tackle the global financial crisis.
The Centre is organising a two-day 'North East Business Summit' later in September to attract investment from ASEAN and other neighbouring countries to the Northeastern region.
India and southeast Asian trading bloc Asean on Thursday concluded talks for freeing trade in goods that will create an European Union-style open market with a combined population of about 1.7 billion people.
India and ASEAN are concerned over the stalemate in WTO talks but the solution lies with developed countries, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said in Singapore.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday warned against "backsliding" toward protectionism as Southeast Asian economic ministers launched a week of talks to strengthen regional trade links.
India and South Asian trading block ASEAN have reached a free trade deal in goods, ending three years of talks aimed at creating a European Union-style single market, only much larger in terms of population over 1.5 billion.
- Southeast Asian nations expect trade with India will soar once the regional bloc ASEAN signs a just-concluded deal with New Delhi at a regional summit in December, officials said on Friday.
Two days after the government won the trust vote, India has scaled up its NSG diplomacy with senior envoys and ministers.
North Korea's reclusive Stalinist regime has signed a non-aggression pact with Southeast Asia in a largely symbolic move.
Foreign ministers from Asia and key world powers opened security talks in Singapore on Thursday amid a simmering border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and progress on North Korean denuclearisation.
India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee on Sunday stressed the need for improving connectivity with the South Asian neighbours and strengthening bilateral relations with them to boost business and attract investments.
A tripartite core group involving the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean), UN and Myanmar is working to make a joint assessment of the damage in Myanmar'sm cyclone-hit areas, state media said Tuesday.
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon met with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein on Thursday, in a high-profile diplomatic push to press the junta to accept a full-scale relief operation for cyclone survivors.
Myanmar lowered its flags on Tuesday to begin three days of mourning for about 133,000 people, dead or missing in the cyclone, as Southeast Asia set to work coordinating a much-needed relief effort.
Myanmar agreed on Monday to an international relief effort, led by its regional allies, to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines.
Finance ministers of 13 Asian nations agreed to set up a foreign exchange pool of at least 80 billion dollars to be used in the event of another regional financial crisis.
Finance ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are reviewing global and regional situations and putting forth directions for closer financial cooperation Friday.
