JAKARTA: Southeast Asian nations officially launched a European Union-inspired economic bloc on Thursday aimed at boosting the region’s trading clout and attracting more investment, but analysts said a true single market was still a long way off.
The ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) hailed the project as a “milestone” in combining the economic force of a resource-rich and growing market of more than 600 million people.
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