Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

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Singapore APEC

AP News 87 days ago

APEC Leaders from left, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, chat during the the Leaders Declaration at the APEC Summit in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP ...

APEC leaders douse hopes on climate pact

AFP Global Edition 87 days ago

Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday buried hopes a key UN meeting next month would forge a binding pact to combat climate change, saying talks would drag on well past the Copenhagen meeting. Instead they backed a face-saving proposal from Danish Prime Minister Lars ...

APEC leaders tip watered-down climate pact

AFP Global Edition 87 days ago

Asia-Pacific leaders said Sunday that talks on a binding international pact to combat the potential disaster of climate change would drag on past a crunch meeting in Copenhagen next month. Instead they backed a face-saving proposal from Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke ...

APEC leaders vow new economic model after crisis

AFP Global Edition 87 days ago

Asia-Pacific powers including the United States and China Sunday vowed to overhaul the crisis-stricken world economy, rejecting protectionism and touting plans for a gargantuan free market. Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, who together steer more than half the global ...

President Obama Visits Singapore Following APEC Summit

Getty Images 87 days ago

SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 15: Wives of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders, (L-R) Miyuki Hatoyama of Japan, Therese Rein of Australia, Kristiani Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Selina Tsang of Hong Kong, Ho Ching of Singapore, Lien Fang Yu of Taiwan, Laureen Harper of ...

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Nailing the funny shirt pic

AP News 87 days ago

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Bringing APEC to Hawaii: summit of 'flowered shirts and grass skirts' He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo. That's one way to view President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will host ...

Asia-Pacific leaders face trade, climate headwinds

AFP Global Edition 87 days ago

US President Barack Obama and 20 other Asia-Pacific leaders convened Sunday at a moment of truth for the crisis-hit world economy and for global efforts to fight climate change. The leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum were to wrap up ...

Obama in a grass skirt? Hawaii to host APEC 2011

Reuters Life! Online Report 87 days ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama invited fellow leaders in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation to a summit in Hawaii in 2011, but may have alarmed them with the dress code. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, which concluded on Sunday in ...

Singapore

AP News 87 days ago

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, centre, is escorted to the first Leaders Retreat at the APEC summit in Singapore, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Copyright 2009 AP News

APEC leaders work for 'ambitious outcome' at Copenhagen

AFP Global Edition 87 days ago

Asia-Pacific leaders Sunday vowed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's Copenhagen climate talks but gave no target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "We... reaffirm our commitment to tackle the threat of climate change and work towards an ambitious outcome ...

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