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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: easy to conceive, harder to deliver

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 475
  A potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be a preferential trading arrangement (PTA) to be built on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (P4) between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore which entered into force in 2006. The P4 is an agreement among partners who understand ...
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• Copenhagen Climate Change meeting 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Countdown to Copenhagen   The Guardian: Countdown to Copenhagen Climate change on Wednesday-night.com Québec at Copenhagen : Moving to a greener economy Global Treaty on Climate Change 2009 15 people worth watching in Copenhagen   Jeffrey Sachs: End ...
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• Hatoyama’s FTA strategy: no strategy at all?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 475
  Author: Joel Rathus Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama has now had several opportunities to put forward his view on a Free Trade Area in East Asia. Thus far his ‘vision’ has proven to be more dependent on the audience, rather than economic or strategic factors. This can be seen in his approaches towards the ...
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• Green Opportunities for SMEs amid challenges from Climate Change

  
  Andrew: Inside & Insights — Authority: 119
  The following is an article from City News that I wrote during one of sessions at the recent APEC SME Summit 2009. This session was about how SMEs could capitalise on the green movement. After a rousing kick off of the APEC SME Summit with keynote speeches by Alibaba Group’s Chairman and CEO, Jack Ma and [...]
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• WTO problems with the Doha Round and beyond

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 475
  Author: Andrew Elek In a new study, titled The Doha Round: ‘Death-Defying Agenda’ or ‘Don’t Do it Again’? , Stuart Harbinson examines the origins of the Doha Round in 2001 and its painfully slow progress in missing deadline after deadline since the original date set for completion of 2005. ...
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• Obama’s trip to Asia

  
  New World Order University Forum — Authority: 124
  Reporting on foreign affairs is usually thin and often misleading. Yes, we know that every country seeks “closer ties” with every other country. We’re trying to dig beneath the surface to find the real forces at work. What were the real cutting issues facing President Obama during his Asian trip last week? ...
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• SBY can rally support for legally binding CO2 cuts

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 525
  | Sourced From Thejakartapost.com | President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono made it clear at a press conference after the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Monday in Singapore that Indonesia would fight for a legally binding carbon emissions cut target at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen ...
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• U.S. trade policy in Asia: Going for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 475
  Author: Deborah Elms, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations, Singapore The ambiguity in U.S. President Barack Obama’s November 13th statement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks mirrors the somewhat torturous path in American trade policy to date on this topic. In his speech in Tokyo, ...
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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: 475
  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: 542
  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: 542
  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: 141
  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: 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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• Quiet but real progress in APEC in Singapore

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 475
  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: 140
  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: 475
  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: 126
  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: 559
  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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