Plan will create economic community in Asia

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

BALI, Indonesia -- Ten Southeast Asian nations signed an ambitious accord Tuesday establishing a Europe-like economic community by 2020 in a region where democracies neighbor dictatorships and First World economies abut financial basket cases.

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