There is no way you are going to find 150 good bankers in the whole of Asia.

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James Withers, chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said that in recent years Scotland had exported more food to Belgium than to the whole of Asia.

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It provides stability for the whole of Southeast Asia, a region of more than half a billion people.

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And across the whole of emerging Asia, cheaper money has been more potent in lifting spending than in the West.

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But there may be a whole host of other issues like that in which the East Asia Summit is probably the ideal venue.

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But the whole concept is fairly new to Asia, says Jamie Allen, secretary general of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA).

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In sports circles, Qatar lobbied vigorously in Asia and Africa, styling itself as a representative of the whole Arab world, bidding to bring the tournament to the Middle East for the first time.

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For Asia as a whole, according to David Johnson and Franklin Zimring writing in the online Asia-Pacific Journal, 16 out of 29 jurisdictions have abolished the death penalty, either definitively or in fact, whereas 13 retain it.

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But we've turned our attention back to the Asia Pacific region, and I think that it's paying off immediately in a whole range of improved relations with countries, and businesses are starting to see more opportunities as a consequence.

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