"The expulsion of Declan Walsh shows just how much the authorities fear independent media coverage, " said CPJ's Asia program coordinator Bob Dietz.
"It's hard not to see how this is another attempt to control media local and international by the Singapore government, " said Bob Dietz, Asia program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based journalism watchdog.
The decision to focus the relationship between the two countries on the personality of one man was a mistake, says Teresita Schaffer, who directs the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Before joining the Department of Defense, he worked at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs as Senior Program Officer for Asia and the Former Soviet Union (1996-1997), and as Program Officer for Asia (1993-1996).
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We looked forward to the U.S. - ASEAN Young Leaders Summit on 5-9 December 2012 in Jakarta, which will bring together alumni of the Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program (SEAYLP) from all ASEAN Member States.
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The German bank announced Friday it would launch a three-year touring exhibition program for Asia of art works from its extensive collection.
It was set up to partner with inventors to develop their inventions into patents, with an emphasis on a technology transfer program in Asia.
Mr. TONY BANBURY (Asia Director, World Food Program): We've managed to get one visa today.
Urban Management Program and the Asia Foundation for their suggestions (see page 52).
Before joining the Administration in 2009, Ambassador Mitchell served as Senior Fellow and Director for Asia in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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These concerns that the U.S. central bank is planning to taper its bond-buying program sent stocks in Asia and Europe lower, while a flight to safety ensued.
Stocks rallied in Asia and Europe as investors believed the program would help prevent a global recession.
Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
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So I think the things to watch at the East Asia Summit are, first of all, what is the program of work that the leaders set for themselves in the course of 2013.
That figure was small by Western standards, but the sum went far in China, according to Evan Feigenbaum, an Asia specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, who studied the program.
Clinton had earlier warned that North Korea's refusal to discuss its nuclear program could escalate tensions and provoke an arms race in northeast Asia.
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However, we believe that growth from emerging economies in Asia and elsewhere hold the potential to add significant growth for the 787 program and for Boeing over the coming years.
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The launch is a culmination of years of efforts by South Korea Asia's fourth-largest economy to advance its space program and cement its standing as a technology powerhouse whose semiconductors, smartphones and automobiles command global demand.
Duke offers a global executive program where students attend classes every three months for two weeks in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
APEC's formal program contains admirable proposals for further tariff reductions toward the goal of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
The package-delivery company says it will increase its cost-cutting program as a result and, starting next month, reduce its express business in Asia.
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In Asia, the demand for EMBAs is particularly buoyant, with more than 700 managers enrolling on the program at the CEIBS school in Shanghai, China.
Gibbs added it was also unlikely that Obama would make such an announcement during his trip to Asia, which is largely focused on economic matters and separate diplomatic issues like North Korea's nuclear program.
"For 2013, the company will capitalise on the increasing popularity of cruising in Asia with the deployment of a second Costa ship in China and the launch of a new Princess Cruises program for the Japanese market, " it said.
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Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
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