KUALA LUMPUR -- Southeast Asia, whose economic community becomes official later next month, already has achieved a high degree of free trade in goods, but liberalization in services and other areas continues to lag.
The "most important moment" has arrived for the 48-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told leaders here Sunday at the signing ceremony for the ASEAN Economic Community, home to some 600 million people.
