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| | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | APEC's stated "Bogor Goals" adopted in 1994 at the Bogor summit are aimed at free and open trade and investments by cutting tariffs between zero to five percent in the Asia-Pacific area for industrialised economies by 2010 and for developing economies by 2020. | | | The agenda of the APEC 2004 year was focused on terrorism and commerce, small and medium enterprise development and contemplation of Free Trade Agreements and Regional Trade Agreements. | | | As part of the accord, leaders committed to develop and implement APEC transparency standards, reduce trade transaction costs in the Asia-Pacific region by 5 percent over 5 years, and pursue trade liberalization policies relating to information technology goods and services. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC
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| | About APEC |
| | APEC economies will endeavor to ensure the overall comparability of their trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, taking into account the general level of liberalization and facilitation already achieved by each APEC economy. | | | APEC functions on the basis of consensus, and it promotes the liberalization of trade and investment through policy dialogue among member economies that is open and based on mutual respect. | | | APEC decisions are made by consensus among all member economies, not by majority vote. |
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http://www.taipei.org/un2002/Html/apec.htm
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| | Public Citizen Global Trade Watch Global Trade Watch - MAI Shell Game - APEC |
| | APEC's investment liberalization agenda which it continues to press notwithstanding the financial crisis afflicting its Asian members has striking similarities to that of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). | | | It is not surprising that the business advisory group to APEC would urge further liberalization particularly in the financial services sector at a time when Asian currencies like the Thai baht, the Korean won and the Malaysian ringatt have lost much of their value. | | | In 1995, FDI in the APEC region accounted for 50% of the world's total, $159 billion of outflows and $171 billion of inflows. |
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http://www.citizen.org/trade/issues/mai/Investor/articles.cfm?ID=1019
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| | CBC News Indepth: APEC |
| | APEC's member nations account for 47 per cent of total world trade and more than half the world's total Gross Domestic Product. | | | The OAA established the three pillars of APEC activity: liberalization of trade and investment, business facilitation, and economic and technical co-operation. | | | 1998 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia APEC agrees on the first nine sectors for EVSL and seeks an agreement with non-APEC members at the World Trade Organization. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/apec
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| | Time to Reinvent APEC |
| | First, trade liberalization within APEC is organized around the notion of open regionalism, meaning that members offer any reductions in their trade barriers to all other countries in a nondiscriminatory way, whether members of APEC or not. | | | APEC has scored two tangible achievements to date: a sweeping but vaguely worded 1994 pledge by its member states to open up to free trade and investment by 2010 and 2020, and a central role in the negotiation of the 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA). | | | APEC discussions could be the germ of major new WTO initiatives (a là ITA), or they could result in regional agreements on these issues conforming to the open reciprocal regionalism principle just described. |
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http://www.brook.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb26.htm
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| | Countdown to the 2005 APEC Summit |
| | APEC has a promising role to play in understanding and managing the economic effects of disasters, including on small and medium enterprises and key industries such as tourism. | | | The upcoming APEC Trade Ministers meeting will be an opportunity for Ministers to support and prepare for the upcoming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong in December. | | | Canada is at the forefront of APEC's activities to help developing economies participate fully in WTO negotiations, including identifying their interests beforehand and implementing agreements afterwards. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-apec/menu-en.asp
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| | APEC: Association of Professional Energy Consultants Front Page |
| | To end users, APEC is an unbiased, synergetic source of resources and information to improve their knowledge and enhan-ce their decision making process in reducing energy consumption and costs and improve our environment. | | | APEC meetings are Not to be a forum for the sale of energy products and services. | | | Energy service providers, vendors, consultants and others are expected to use APEC to enhance their product or services with paralleling technologies. |
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http://www.apec.ws
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| | USTR - USTR Zoellick to Attend Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting in Chile, November 17-18 |
| | APEC Leaders created the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in 1995 to formally advise economies on the implementation of APEC's free trade and investment goals. | | | Within the Doha negotiations, the United States was the first WTO member to put forward a comprehensive agricultural trade reform proposal, calling for elimination of export subsidies, cuts of $100 billion in annual allowed global trade-distorting domestic subsidies, and lowering average allowed global tariffs from 62 percent to 15 percent. | | | APEC has established a solid partnership with the business community. |
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http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2004/November/USTR_Zoellick_to_Attend_Asia-Pacific_Economic_Cooperation_(APEC)_Meeting_in_Chile,_November_17-18.html
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| | Keynote Address on APEC: Making APEC a Dynamic Process for Cooperation by H.E. M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Deputy ... |
| | Finally, there is the perception, certainly in Thailand, that APEC has been and continues to be a force for positive change, be it liberalization, bureaucratic and financial system reform, institution- building, or embodiment and articulation of positive values. | | | In these areas, APEC is a rallying point for dedicated regionalists, working together for the common goal of achieving better economic well-being through an Asia-Pacific community of free and open trade and investment. | | | Nevertheless, APEC is much more than trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, or TILF in APEC parlance. |
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http://www.thaiembdc.org/pressctr/statemnt/others/dfm_apec2000.html
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| | U.S. Policy Goals for APEC 2005 |
| | APEC Trade Ministers, whose economies account for almost half of world trade, can lay groundwork at their June meeting for the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. | | | For instance, last year’s APEC Anti-Corruption Initiative was a wonderful example of the public and private sectors working on an issue to produce a package much more valuable than the sum of its parts. | | | The third major U.S. goal for APEC in 2005 is to increase transparency and fight corruption. |
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http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rm/2005/43917.htm
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| | APEC LEADERS ENDORSE ENDING AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES |
| | Leaders at the APEC meeting in their statement recognised the imperative of investing in health to promote economic growth, poverty alleviation, worker performance and productivity. | | | The Action Plan, which calls for the provision of appropriate capacity building assistance for developing countries, is meant to operationalise APEC's commitment to reduce transaction costs by five percent in the APEC region by 2006. | | | According to the final statement, APEC leaders feel the Doha negotiating mandate holds "real" potential in assisting developing countries, in particular improving market access for goods and services, agricultural reform, and the clarification and betterment of trade disciplines. |
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http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/02-10-31/story3.htm
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| | APEC INQUIRY |
| | Whitehall was referring the APEC investigation, enacted by the RCMP Public Complaints Commission - a watchdog agency on Mountie activities. | | | By the end of the first day of hearings into the treatment of protesters at last year's APEC summit, the solicitor general is being pressured to resign and Reform has vowed to shut down government unless Jean Chretien testifies. | | | The strategy is to keep the news focus on Vancouver, to make it appear that the issue is whether the Mounties were justified or not in going after the demonstrators, not whether the prime minister acted improperly in the whole sordid affair. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/apec.html
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| | NOAA's APEC Oceans - Final Declaration |
| | Other APEC fora are encouraged to seriously consider the Korea proposal for such a center and related financing support at the earliest opportunity. | | | Economies recognize the economic importance of oceans and seas to the APEC region, and commit to champion regional efforts to integrate environmental and scientific considerations into economic decision-making and to promote the conservation and the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources in the APEC region. | | | Further, we call upon APEC member economies to participate fully in ongoing efforts by the FAO Committee on Fisheries to solve global fisheries problems of seabird mortality in longline fisheries, shark conservation and management, and excess fishing capacity. |
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http://www.apec.noaa.gov/finaldec.html
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| | CorpWatch : From APEC to Ashes |
| | Had it been passed APEC would have enjoyed fresh votes of confidence from all sectors. | | | Though countries chose to be a part of APEC at the same time doesn't mean they can liberalize and open up markets at the same time. | | | APEC started out with three main objectives -- to promote trade and investment liberalization, to facilitate business and to foster economic and technical cooperation. |
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=642
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| | THE THIRD APEC MINISTERIAL MEETING ON |
| | Ministers note that APEC member economies are in various stages of liberalising their telecommunications markets, and that there is diversity in the form and manner of these liberalisation activities. | | | However, Ministers fully expect that APEC economies will overcome these challenges soon and will emerge stronger and more confident as a result of their continued commitment to and implementation of liberalisation action plans. | | | 5. Noting the continuing development gap that exists within APEC, Ministers direct TEL to pay particular attention to the need, highlighted recently by Leaders and Ministers responsible for Trade, to facilitate greater economic and technical co-operation activities to bridge this gap and help member economies regain their economic strength. |
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http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/in_focus/singapore_declaration.html
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| | APEC/SCCP Partner Economies |
| | In its Bogor Declaration, APEC has made free trade a centrepiece of its work, and it is relying on customs organizations to put in place the customs framework for liberalized trade. | | | Each year, senior officials (SOM), working through committees, consider proposals and work programs before consideration by trade ministers and APEC leaders. | | | These people determine the strategic direction for the customs work of APEC. |
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http://www.sccp.org
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| | <ALCoB.com> |
| | Hereafter, APEC Future Education will enlarge and develop these activities through sharing the achievements of this project with member economies to search for the ideal model of future education for crystallizing the APEC Shared Prosperity. | | | With the recognition at the 26th APEC HRD WG Meeting, APEC Future Education Consortium has come into operation in various fields: Building Community, Research and Development, Share and Exchanges, and Education and Training. | | | For all of the activities, the consortium organizes the Steering Committee consisting of representatives of member economies' government, Research Committee, ICT Model School Network, and Business Sector as "Tri-Partization"-Government, Non-Government/Institute, and Private/Business Sector. |
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http://www.alcob.com
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| | USTR - Zoellick to Attend APEC Meeting in Bangkok Oct. 17-18 |
| | APEC's contribution to trade liberalization will be highlighted by an agreement reached in the context of | | | During the APEC conference, Zoellick will meet individually with ministers responsible for trade from | | | and help APEC reach the Bogor goals for achieving free and open trade and investment in the Asia |
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http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2003/October/Zoellick_to_Attend_APEC_Meeting_in_Bangkok_Oct_17-18.html
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| | APEC Chile 2004 |
| | The WTO Doha Round, anti-corruption measures, transparency and Best Practices for FTAs, were the main issues addressed. | | | Chile’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ignacio Walker, noted success of APEC Ministerial Meeting. | | | APEC Chile 2004 highlights progress achieved in Trade Liberalization, Anti-Corruption and Sustainable Development |
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http://www.apec2004.cl
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| | APEC Symposium on ebXML for Internet Paperless Trading and Collaborative e-Business |
| | The APEC Symposium on ebXML for Internet Paperless Trading and Collaborative e-Business held in Thailand on July 21-23, 2003 made a significant contribution to reducing costs for business in the region. | | | Single window systems allow parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements. | | | The symposium noted the need to incorporate open and interoperable technologies such as web services and ebXML to ensure affordable implementation of paperless trading in business transaction. |
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http://www.apec-ipt.ku.ac.th/home.jsp
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| | Business Travel - APEC Business Travel Card |
| | The APEC Business Travel Card has been developed in response to the need of business people to gain streamlined entry to the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. | | | The department's APEC Unit can assist you with contact details of the appropriate agency in your home economy. | | | Please pass the form on to any of your business associates that may interested in the card. |
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http://www.immi.gov.au/business/apec.htm
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| | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| | Seoul, Korea, 2 October 2005 -- Senior Asia-Pacific business executives have called on APEC Member Economies to take the lead in ensuring the success of the crucial upcoming World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong. | | | APEC International Forum - Economy Globalization and Business Incubators, Oct 18-20, 2005, Xi'an >> | | | APEC International Forum - Economy Globalization and Business Incubators |
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http://apec.org
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| | About APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| | APEC has 21 members - referred to as "Member Economies" - which account for more than a third of the world's population (2.6 billion people), approximately 60% of world GDP (US$19, 254 billion) and about 47% of world trade. | | | Free and open trade helps to lower the costs of production and thus reduces the prices of goods and services - a direct benefit to all. | | | Key to achieving APEC's vision are what are referred to as the 'Bogor Goals' of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific by 2010 for industrialised economies and 2020 for developing economies. |
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http://www.apec.org/apec/about_apec.html
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| | Australian APEC Study Centre |
| | APEC needs a wake up call more than trade liberalization | | | Creating long-term confidence: a report on the first year of the managing regulatory change in life insurance and pensions program | | | Australian APEC Study Centre Report on Activities 2000 and Program 2001 |
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http://www.apec.info/auapec.html
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| | CNN.com - Key points from APEC's statement - Oct. 21, 2003 |
| | • APEC will "eliminate the severe and growing danger posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery by strengthening international nonproliferation regimes, adopting and enforcing effective export controls and taking other legitimate and appropriate measures against proliferation." | | | Leaders want to boost efforts at creating knowledge-based economies, while accelerating structural reforms across the region and providing assistance to small- and medium-sized enterprises to help them better survive in a world where big multinationals keep growing. | | | • To help people and societies benefit from economic globalization, APEC wants to empower its citizens, including young people and women, to become better integrated into the global economy. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/21/apec.special.kp.ap
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| | Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) Home Page |
| | APEC would like to thank all of the prospective authors who submitted more than 500 digests for the consideration of the APEC 2006 Program Committee. | | | All questions about the conference itself - submitting papers, registering, exhibits, etc. - should be sent to the APEC Conference Managers. | | | APEC 2006 Complimentary Registration For Members Of The Press And Financial Community Is Now Open |
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http://www.apec-conf.org
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| | APEC Study Centre |
| | Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre, Alan Oxley, attended the tenth conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aries, Argentina in December 2004. | | | The Study Centre has just released a paper which canvasses options for ensuring that the world can share the benefits of the genetic resources in biodiverse regions while still providing benefits to developing countires with those resources. | | | Australia has recently entered into two Free Trade Agreements with two APEC economies, Thailand and the United States. |
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http://www.apec.org.au
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| | ADB Support for other APEC Initiatives - ADB.org |
| | In 2003, ADB financed a study on the harmonization of bond market rules and regulation in selected APEC countries in support of APEC's policy dialogue on regional bond market development. | | | In 2000, ADB financed a survey on credit rating practices in APEC economies for the APEC Collaborative Initiative on Supporting the Development of Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs). | | | ADB has also been supporting a number of other APEC collaborative initiatives related to bond market development: |
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http://www.asiandevbank.org/Projects/Apec/support.asp
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| | Welcome to the APEC Tariff Database |
| | The APEC Secretariat, the APEC Member Economies and Federal Express Corporation, on behalf of themselves and their subsidiaries, employees, and agents, disclaim any liability for problems encountered in using the Database for any reason, and for the accuracy, consistency, or currency of the information contained in the Database. | | | The reproduced material is not an official or authorized version. | | | Tariff Data in this Database is reproduced by permission of the World Customs Organization and APEC Member Economies. |
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http://www.apectariff.org
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| | Virtual People's Summit Welcome |
| | Parallel to the official APEC meetings in Bogor, Indonesia (1994), Kyoto, Japan (1995) and Manila, Philippines (1996), members of civil society continued to come together to demand an open, transparent and accountable APEC process, or, an end to the APEC process altogether. | | | The purpose of this site is to inform and to broaden the discussion about trade liberalization and globalization in the Asia Pacific Region. | | | In November 1998, people will gather to question the benefits of trade liberalization and globalization in the Asia-Pacific Peoples' Assembly to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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http://www.vcn.bc.ca/summit
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| | ncapec.org--The link between U.S. business and APEC |
| | Three business leaders from each member country provide guidance for APEC's activities. | | | What is APEC and What It Can Do For Business | | | Website of the Korean Government APEC Preparatory Committee |
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| | The ACTETSME Website - Information Resource for SMEs in APEC |
| | Find out the current time in any of the APEC member economies | | | The Guide for SMEs section contains links to SME Associations and Institutions dedicated to helping business grow. | | | It is up to each company to weigh the necessary commitment against the potential benefit. |
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http://www.actetsme.org
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| | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Australia - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| | This report, Paperless Trading: Benefits to APEC, highlights the potential direct and indirect economic benefits of the removal of mandatory requirements for paper-based documents in international trade. | | | But it was also, more generally, designed to provide a contact point for informing readers about the wide and exciting range of electronic commerce initiatives being undertaken in APEC, and in other organisations, governments and businesses around the globe. | | | This website was established to assist in the dissemination of discussion papers by members of the Task Force and other contributors. |
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/apec/apec_ecom.html
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| | Drinking Water Filters- Reverse Osmosis Water Purifier Purification |
| | For the first time I have drinking water without worrying about changing bottles or a monthly bill with charges that change with the wind..." J. Gorecki | | | Affiliates Log In "I've been using the APEC RO-45 water filter and couldn't be happier. |
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http://www.freedrinkingwater.com
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| | ICANN Nominating Committee Members |
| | For over three years, she served on a private sector advisory council for the Director General of WIPO, with a focus on creating a balanced approach to IPR. | | | Ms Cade is the chair of the Global Public Policy Committee, ITAA; VoIP/IP Telephony rapporteur at ITU Study Group 3; and Founder/Chair, Positively Broadband Campaign, www.positivelybroadband.org. | | | Ms Wellings previously served as a Policy Analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C. At EPIC, she analyzed Internet-related policy in ICANN, the OECD, APEC, the US Congress, and the United Nations. |
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http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/bios-2005.htm
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| | China News |
| | Hong Kong Monetary Authority is available online, outlining the Currency board system, how it works and Hong Kong's monetary and banking policies. | | | It also has links to related sites such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. | | | ChinaBIG Yellow Pages is a comprehensive online directory for businesses in China. |
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http://chinanews.bfn.org
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| | APEC:Air Highways Magazine and Africa Travel Association Magazine Archives |
| | How do you reach and influence 10,000 delegates from 18 countries in one week? | | | Chile: Head, APEC Department General Directorate of International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alameda #1315, 2o. | | | In 1997, when our Managing Editor heard that the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) was holding an 18-nation summit in Vancouver, with US President Clinton, other heads of state and decision makers in attendance, his ears began to twitch. |
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http://www.airhighways.com/apec.htm
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| | APEC - Services |
| | APEC is prepared to support these requirements with all engineering disciplines; architectural, civil, electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, piping, structural and process. | | | APEC’s exposure to projects from conception to start-up allows us to realize that, in addition to detail design, our clients may have requirements that include: | | | Most of our work is on product lines that run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so we understand how to design for minimal disruption of on-going operations. |
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http://apec.com/services.html
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| | Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2003 Home Page |
| | The APEC conference management team is busy packing and on their way to the fabulous Fontainenbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. | | | You will find all of the information you need about APEC 2003 on these pages. | | | The Registration Desk will be open every day. |
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http://www.apec-conf.org/2003/APEC03_Home_Page.html
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| | APEC - Home |
| | With ISO9001 certification APEC provides total solutions for power requirements in MOSFETs, IGBTs, and power ICs. | | | Established in July 1998, APEC was the first company in Taiwan to successfully integrate the 6-inch DMOS process. | | | The company's products are utilised in the computing, consumer electronics, display, communications and industrial segments. |
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http://www.a-power.com.tw
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| | APEC - IBIZ |
| | Currently there are 15 APEC Member Economies participating in the program. | | | This program is designed to improve the quality of counselling and increase the supply of Small Business Counsellors across the APEC region. | | | This website is dedicated to providing information about the Training and Certification Program for Small Business Counsellors. |
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http://www.apec-ibiz.org
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| | APEC Home Page |
| | The Australian Pharmacy Examining Council Incorporated (APEC) was established to assist overseas trained pharmacists to obtain registration in Australia and thus enable them to practise their profession in Australia. | | | It is available free of charge and easily downloadable from the Adobe Web site. |
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http://www.apec.asn.au
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| | Introducing Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Fulltext Studies |
| | APEC Study Center, Institute of Developing Economies - Japan External Trade Organization (ID The Australian APEC Study Centre | | | Updates will only be to the new site as of November 1, 2004. | | | To implement a major upgrade, this site is moving to www.asia-studies.com. |
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http://www.apec.info
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| | product page |
| | If keeping photos or inserts flat is most important to you, there is no better mailer on the market than the APEC Photomailer. | | | A rugged 28# Brown Kraft Button & String envelope contains 2 pre-inserted sheets of corrugated board. |
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http://www.apec-usa.com/ApecDotNet/ProductFamily.aspx?CategoryID=11&ProductFamilyID=567&Name=Mailers
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