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Participants of the Special ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers' Meeting (Special AFMM+3) attend a news conference after a meeting at a hotel in Phuket province, south of Bangkok February 22, 2009. Asian finance officials said on Sunday they would expand a currency swap agreement to help bolster their currencies in the global economic crisis and they hoped to have a full agreement ready by May. (L-R) Brunei's Minister of Finance II Pehin Dato Abd Rahman Ibrahim, Indonesia's Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Malaysia Minister of Finance Y.A.B. Dato Sri Mohd Najib B. Tun Haji Abdul Razak, Philippines Finance Secretary Margarito Teves, Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Finance Hwee Hua lim, People's Republic of China Minister of Finance Xuren Xie, South Korea's Ministry of Strategy and Finance Jeung Hyun Yoon, Thailand's Minister of Finance Korn Chatikavanij, Japan's Parliamentary Secretary for Finance Shinsuke Suematsu, Vietnam's Minister of Finance Vu Van Ninh, Myanmar's Minister of Finance Major General Hla Tun, Cambodia's Secretary General for Economy and Finance Chuon Naron Hang. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
