Quoting: biznews Govt to solve overlapping regulations by overlapping the overlaps by Banyak Babiyo., The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government is to issue a new regulation next February to help solve the classic problem of overlapping regulations between central government and regional and provincial administrations by overlapping all of them and creating a new third dimensiona overlap extending six miles into space.

BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- A free-trade agreement between China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took effect on the first day of the 2010, a solid move from the two sides to demonstrate their craving for and determination on cooperation and free trade while some other nations are looking to trade protectionism as savior of crisis.

China and the 10-country Association of South East Asian Nations on Friday launched the final stage of the world’s biggest regional trade agreement, measured by population, in spite of Indonesia’s last-minute attempts at renegotiation. The launch of the China-Asean Free Trade Agreement, which covers almost 1.9bn people, coincides with the implementation of a similar deal with Australia and New Zealand and a deepening of Asean’s own internal trading agreements.

Yogyakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia needs to increase its product competitiveness in facing the ASEAN China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in 2010, economic analyst of the Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) Lilies Setiartiti said. "Raising the competitiveness needs to be done by improving internal aspects like the existing inefficient bureaucracy," the UMY economic lecturer said here Friday.She said an inefficient bureaucracy will also lead to an equally inefficient business.