Tag: APEC

Xi, Duterte agree to further improve ties, boost cooperation during Peru meeting

  CHINESE President Xi Jinping and his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, met in Peruvian capital Lima Saturday and pledged to further promote bilateral ties and strive for more fruitful cooperation. Talking on the sidelines of the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, Xi praised Duterte’s visit to China last month, saying it achieved full improvement of China-Philippines relations, opened a new chapter for bilateral ties and injected positive energy into regional peace and […]

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News in photo: President Duterte upon arrival in Lima, Peru for the APEC summit

    President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at 11:45 pm on November 17, 2016 in Lima, Peru to make his debut in the 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting. Peruvian Minister of Culture Jorge Nieto and former Peruvian Ambassador to the Philippines Julio Cardenas Velarde welcomed the President at the Jorge Chavez International Airport. From the airport, President Duterte was taken to the Melia Hotel where he would be staying for the entire duration of […]

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Pacific leaders urged to defend free trade after Trump win

  by Sam Reeves Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A summit of top world leaders was urged Friday to fight rising protectionism after Donald Trump’s election victory stoked fears that free trade is under threat, and the global economy along with it. Trump, who triumphed in last week’s US presidential vote, successfully tapped the anger of working-class voters who feel left behind by years of globalization, vowing to protect American jobs against cheap […]

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Obama, Trudeau and Pena Nieto arrive for APEC summit

  (Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto arrived on Friday (November 18) in Lima, Peru where leaders of Pacific rim nations scrambled to find new free-trade options as Donald Trump’s looming presidency sounded a possible death knell for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that brings together leaders whose economies represent 57 percent of global gross domestic product. Chinese President Xi […]

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Asia-Pacific leaders talk trade in a Trump world

LIMA, Peru (AFP) – by Joshua Howat Berger Top world leaders meet from Thursday to try to save their cherished free trade accords from feared extinction under US President-elect Donald Trump. Here are three big factors looming over the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit from Thursday to Sunday in Lima, Peru. Trump effect  Trump has cast uncertainty on the postwar world order with his vows to tear up or renegotiate international free trade agreements in […]

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President Duterte to leave for APEC today, to seek meeting with Russian President Putin

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to leave for Lima, Peru today, Thursday, to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit, where he is looking forward to having a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The President and his party will fly from Davao City International Airport at 1:40 p.m. But his flight route will avoid passing through the United States, with a stop-over in Auckland, New Zealand before […]

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Philippines gears up for APEC 2016 in Peru

MANILA, Feb. 13 — Preparations are underway for the Philippine participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2016 First Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) and Related Meetings, which will be held from February 20 to March 4 in Lima, Peru. Using the APEC 2015 Leaders’ Declaration and Joint Ministerial Statement as guidance, the Philippines will not only continue to build on APEC’s ongoing work, but will also pursue, monitor, and sustain the initiatives it introduced last year […]

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Trivia on APEC leaders

MANILA, Philippines – Now that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is over, let’s find out some fun trivia regarding some of the APEC leaders. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)

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APEC Summit, not answer to economic development – Ibon Foundation

MANILA,Philippines – According to the Ibon Foundation, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is not the answer to the economic development of the Philippines, adding that the terms of the commitment made by the 21 countries like corporate control on intellectual property rights, international dispute settlement mechanisms as well as the free trade agreement will have negative impacts in our economy, especially when it comes to labor and employment. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul […]

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