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• US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president perpetrated upon greeting ...
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• Climate Change is a Growing Global Challenge

  
  The Global Small Business Blog — Authority: 424
  Back from Lyon, France after attending the World Entrepreneurship Forum. I will report about it later this week (catch a quick glimpse of award ceremony venue here ). In the meantime, a new APEC website for the Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange (EGSIE) went live. The EGSIE is an innovative ...
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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 431
  Author: Ann Capling, University of Melbourne At last week’s APEC meeting, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the Obama Administration would participate in negotiations to establish a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. This announcement means that the TPP negotiations – ...
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• Copenhagen Climate Summit: A farce in the making?

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 544
  The hopes of many have been dashed, as US President Barack Obama and the assembled leaders of the APEC 2009 meeting in Singapore recently expressed doubts that any breakthrough towards arresting clima read more
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• Singapore refuses to renew foreign journalist’s visa

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 544
  From the Committee to Protect Journalists’ website: New York, November 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Singapore government’s refusal to renew British freelance journalist Benjamin Bland’s work visa and his application to cover the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• U.S. Chamber Calls for Expanding Trade with Taiwan

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 144
  After a week spent at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) Summit urging world leaders to expand trade between the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue arrived in Taiwan on November 16 to speak before the American Chamber of Commerce in ...
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• U.S. Chamber Calls for Expanding Trade with Taiwan

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 147
  After a week spent at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) Summit urging world leaders to expand trade between the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue arrived in Taiwan on November 16 to speak before the American Chamber of Commerce in ...
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• Quiet but real progress in APEC in Singapore

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 431
  Author: Andrew Elek The meetings of APEC ministers and leaders during the week to November 15, set the scene for pursuing a post-Bogor agenda in APEC, working alongside other forums and institutions, including the G20 and the multilateral development banks. A breakfast meeting led to a realistic approach to the ...
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• Oil companies started raising fuel prices

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 137
  The major oil companies, as well as the small players, have already started raising the prices of fuel. This move seems to be legal as far as the oil firms is concerned since President Gloria  Macapagal Arroyo have already lifted Executive Order 839 before she left for Singapore to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic ...
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• How far has the global crisis altered India’s role in Asia?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 431
  Author: Suman Bery, NCAER The concept of Asia has ever been fluid and elusive, for outsiders as much as within the region. The Romans invented the name to refer to the lands beyond the Mediterranean explored by Alexander. Asia Minor, Rome’s ‘near abroad’, is current day Anatolia in Turkey. In the medieval ...
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• Obama and Abhisit at APEC

  
  Newley Purnell — Authority: 124
  WhiteHouse.gov has this brief video (embedded below) of President Obama speaking after he met with ASEAN leaders at APEC in Singapore on Sunday. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appears in the video, and Obama thanks him at the end.
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• Liu Mingkang Provides Sense on Cents

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 560
  Liu Mingkang, Chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission With friends like this, who needs enemies? That trite saying is far too simplistic in defining the diverse and convoluted nature of U.S.-Chinese relations. That said, as President Obama prepares to arrive in the People’s Republic of China for the first ...
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• Here’s What the World Labor Movement Is Saying to President Obama and Asian Leaders

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 665
  The global labor movement and the AFL-CIO are urging President Obama and other world leaders meeting in Singapore at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to take strong stands on issues of jobs, trade imbalances, currency policy , workers’ rights and climate change . With 59 million people expected to be ...
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• USTR Kirk Comments on Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement from President Obama

  
  Export Industry News — Authority: 144
  In an address to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) CEO Summit on November 13 in Singapore, United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) Ron Kirk commented on President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will engage with the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP). In ...
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• USTR Kirk Comments on Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement from President Obama

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 147
  In an address to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) CEO Summit on November 13 in Singapore, United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) Ron Kirk commented on President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will engage with the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP). In ...
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• APEC Leaders Disappoint on Climate Change

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  For the past several months the world has waited with anticipation for the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen.  Environmental groups and activists have hyped the summit as having the potential to produce real results in the fight against climate change.  Protestors have taken to rooftops and even ...
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• A Climate Deal Unlikely to happen by Copenhagen next Month

  
  BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITEHOUSE — Authority: 129
  On Sunday, the top economic powers met with President Obama at the APEC summit. The leaders acknowledged that most likely there would be no chance of a major developement concerning climate change by the end of this year.  Next month, there will be another conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and issues over global ...
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• A happy family

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 544
  At the summit, it was like one big happy family sitting down and playing the popular card game Happy Families. Clinton Lim, ST forum pageRelated Posts “Singaporeans are a happy lot” reports CNA – using 3-year old survey results Happy new year! We will be back… “Like the Wong Kar Wai film, Happy Together: ...
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• World leaders give up on Copenhagen climate treaty

  
  Thornton and Denver Weather News and Commentary — Authority: 128
  Singapores Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, centre, makes the Leaders Declaration at the APEC Leaders Summit in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) Faced with the reality that many nations are unwilling to commit to an agreement, world leaders said yesterday that a global climate change treaty ...
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• Consensus: No Climate Deal at Copenhagen

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  The decision by some world leaders to not seek a binding climate change agreement in Copenhagen has dealt a significant setback to efforts leading up to December’s meeting, reports the Wall Street Journal.Instead, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has proposed to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...
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