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Asian finance chiefs to create stability body

MADRID (Kyodo) The finance ministers of Japan, China and South Korea agreed Sunday to create a new framework by the end of the year to promote financial stability in Asia, recognizing the current financial market turbulence as a major risk to the regional... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Sun, May 04 2008

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