The 10 th ASEAN Senor Officials Meeting on Minerals (ASOM) in Bangkok from March 3-5 focused on discussing regional cooperation to boost investment and sustainable development as well as improve management capacity in the mining industry.
The financial crisis has not provoked a tsunami of trade protectionism as many economists feared, World Trade Organiztion (WTO) spokesman Keith Rockwell said on Wednesday.
Japan is working on a plan to join with ASEAN in infrastructure construction and natural resource exploitation worth 15 trillion JPY (roughly 170 billion USD).
The relationship between Germany and Vietnam has been constantly developed in various fields, especially investment cooperation and development aid.
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