Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and Japan will open their markets to each other by cutting import duties on 90 percent of their tariff posts after they have signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), an Indonesian cabinet minister said. "The EPA is a comprehensive agreement under which the two countries will open their markets to 90 percent of each other`s tariff posts," Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said here on Friday.

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - A merger of three Malaysian plantation conglomerates will create the world's largest listed palm oil estate, and boost the country's status as a palm oil producer amid growing regional competition, analysts said.

Manila (ANTARA News) - Southeast Asian leaders are to advance to 2015 the target date for integrating the region's vast economies into a single European Union-style market, a draft declaration obtained by AFP showed. The declaration is expected to be signed by Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders when they meet for an annual summit next month in the central Philippine resort island of Mactan.

That's not good for my business.... the lower the better!