"The role of executive education is shifting, " says Paul Kirkbride, associate dean at Melbourne Business School, a leading institution in the Asia-Pacific area.
French Polynesia is made up of some 200 islands -- the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Austral and Marquesas groups -- spread over 4.1 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean: an area roughly eight times the size of France.
George Bush trumped that in November by advocating a free-trade area spanning the Pacific and covering half the world economy.
Officials have been planning to ditch the station in a controlled descent that will send it hurtling into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, 1, 500-2, 000km east of Australia.
Officials are now planning to ditch the station in a controlled descent that will send it hurtling into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, 1, 500-2, 000km east of Australia.
Charles described an area in the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, transformed literally into a plastic soup, where one part plankton to six parts plastic could be trawled.
The historic property, arranged around a central lawn and pool area overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is just two blocks from the Carmel town centre and close to Pebble Beach and Monterey Bay.
In 1993 information came out that the Navy had known there were enemy submarines in that particular area of the Pacific but had failed to inform the captain and had not provided an escort.
There is an area of the Pacific the size of Texas known as the "trash vortex" or "plastic soup" where gyrating currents hold an estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton, according to Greenpeace.
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According to a study released this week by AlixPartners, Asia Pacific still remains the most attractive area for future growth among multinationals.
And to this end, both our countries will work on regional trade and investment rules-making, with a view to building AFTA or the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific.
Establish a clear path for launching the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) by 2020.
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We are also committed to working together to develop high standard trade and investment rules in the region and promote regional economic integration, consistent with the long-term objective of the APEC economies to develop a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).
The exploration permit allowed Pacific Rim to perform exploratory drilling in the area, which is what caught the attention of local communities.
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But most importantly, at this time of recession in some areas of the world, of a slowdown in others, the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership, perhaps represents the greatest potential area of growth in an entire decade.
And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.
No places in the Pacific Time Zone made the list, and in the Northeast, just one area, Pittsburgh, Pa.
President George W Bush has banned fishing in an area the size of Spain in US-controlled waters of the central Pacific.
Marisol Perez Tello and Veronika Mendoza visiting crude-permeated rivers in the area as well as the deteriorating oil pipeline that pumps crude to the Pacific coast.
No area in the world saw a bigger growth in the number of new billionaires than Asia- Pacific, home to 78 new billionaires, 29% from Real Estate.
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