And Indonesian textile firms are lobbying against the full implementation from next year of the free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
As it is, ASEAN, the ten-nation Association of South-East Asian Nations, is using the opening of parliament to argue for the lifting of longstanding Western sanctions on the grounds that the country has reformed itself.
An early signing of a free-trade agreement between India and the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected.
One of the organisations which knows most about the delicate negotiations of a multi-faith, multicultural world is Sampad, the Birmingham-based and nationally-respected south Asian arts organisation.
The ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which played host to the summit, likes to tout its own efforts to build a European-style single market of over 500m people.
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Myanmar's intransigence over political reform has embarrassed its neighbours, which are preparing to hand the chair of the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to Myanmar in 2006.
The South-East Asian upstart (population 101m) is unlikely ever to surpass the South Asian behemoth (1.2 billion) across the entire range of outsourcing offerings, which also include all kinds of information-technology services.
Officials said the detainees belonged to the Abu Sayyaf, a group of armed Filipino Muslims, who had trained with Jemaah Islamiah, the South-East Asian Islamic militant movement.
Within the country, the public's rage over Mr. Roh marks the end-product of South Korea's climb up the ladder of Asian-style development: first, rapid economic growth under a strong, stable government, then the emergence of an affluent, well-educated middle class, and finally the clamor for political rights and democratic empowerment.
The former South-East Asian tigers are finding it difficult to recover their lost dynamism.
Among the South-East Asian economies, Indonesia seems to be holding up best, with GDP up by 6.1% in the year to the third quarter.
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But provided liberalisation keeps creeping along, for a while an economy that increases by anywhere near 7% may seem impressive compared with the poor South-East Asian tigers that India was so keen to emulate.
Amid concerns that it could be a target for Islamic terror groups such as the Jemaah Islamiyah, the prosperous south-east Asian city-state has launched its own war against terrorism -- a war largely driven by technology.
After a few weeks a tripartite mechanism involving the regime, the United Nations and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional block, was established and eased barriers such as the visas aid workers need, and the permits required to import equipment.
It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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The meeting, held on July 31st in the margins of a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Brunei, marked much the highest-level contact between the two countries since the election of President George Bush.
It currently holds the rotating chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which the two feuding parties belong (see Banyan).
And, refusing to countenance serious negotiations with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which four of the claimants belong, China appears to want to pick off its members one by one.
For weeks the military regime has delayed pronouncing a verdict in its trial, perhaps so as not to embarrass fellow members of the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), meeting for its annual summit this week in Thailand.
In the spirit of openness now sweeping the country, officials acknowledge that the economy was in no shape, for instance, to prosper after Myanmar's planned entry into a single market among the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations in 2015.
When the decision to hold such a gathering was first announced, at the annual summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Laos last month, no one seemed to know the answer.
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If the tide of South-East Asian migrants had broken upon Bradford in a single wave, as did the Kenyan and Ugandan Asians who fled to London and the Midlands in the late 1960s and early 1970s, their story would be simpler, and happier.
Although manufacturing and services continue to supplant farming as the dominant forms of South-East Asian output, much of the working population still relies on agriculture (see chart).
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There is the big, lolling tongue of its maritime claim in the South China Sea, which unnerves its South-East Asian neighbours.
UN, and its accession to the Association of South-East Asian Nations has been delayed.
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One cherished ambition is to take the chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in 2014.
Myanmar had seen its accession last July to the Association of South-East Asian Nations as a ticket to prosperity.
Efforts to engage the generals gained momentum after the recent summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Bangkok.
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