The corals were discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, near the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Last month, a team from the University of California at San Diego became the latest group to travel to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Peter Brookes is an Asia-Pacific expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

The commander of a United States navy force in the Pacific, Thomas Jones, received news that led him to believe the United States was at war with Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Mr.Obama meets next week with leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Burma, at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Ms.Tenenbaum is set to deliver a speech Tuesday,in Hong Kong, at a toy safety meeting organized by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

Nagesh Kumar,chief economist at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, says foreign investment will also suffer.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

In a speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore, the Chinese president listed his country's efforts at fighting the global economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Ken Albala is a food historian at University of the Pacific in Stockton,California.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Pacific island territory of Guam. The move,aimed at reducing noise and other complaints of the so-called U.S."footprint" on Okinawa will be underwritten with nearly $3 billion provided from Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31