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To ensure a more efficient flow of goods, services, capital and people, leaders of 21 prada handbags sale economies agreed to accelerate physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity. "We aspire to achieve a seamlessly and comprehensively connected and integrated Asia Pacific," the leaders said in a joint declaration, vowing to connect regional growth poles, boost transportation networks and reduce transaction costs. They have laid out a multi-year plan on infrastructure development and investment, noting specific steps to improve supply-chain performance and necessary capacity building of the cheap dr dre beatsgovernment. They have agreed to keep promoting fiscal transparency and public accountability in a bid to foster transparency and competition, and create better functioning markets. They will also take actions to improve regulation, promote cross-border education, and support global value chain development. To enhance people-to-people connectivity, the APEC economies endorsed the target of 1 million intra-APEC university-level students per year by 2020, as well as further efforts to enhance the mobility of students, researchers and education providers. They agreed to progress work on the Travel Facilitation Initiative to promote tourism and facilitate business, and develop youth programs in APEC to foster a sense of community and shared prada clutch responsibility. Meanwhile, the leaders also pledged support for the multilateral trading system and efforts to achieve the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment by 2020. All leaders of the APEC economies acknowledged that trade and investment are critical for better jobs and greater prosperity of their people. They agreed to take steps to reduce tariffs on environmental goods, boost rural development, and encourage more private investment. The APEC is an economic forum in the Asia-Pacific prada bags on sale region established in 1989. It currently has 21 members and aims to facilitate free trade and investment in the region. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Tokyo Electric Power Co. ( TEPCO) admitted that human error was the cause of a pump cooling nuclear fuel being stopped on Monday morning. The embattled utility also stated on late Monday that in addition to the cooling of nuclear fuel being temporarily suspended, in two of the complex's containment units, the decontamination of radioactive gases was also halted due to the error. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stressed the importance of connectivity with non- APEC economies and called for cheap beats by dre pro efforts to pursue APEC's goals of achieving sustainable and equitable economic growth here Tuesday. He made the remarks when opening an informal meeting between the APEC leaders and the representatives from four Pacific Islands countries. The four representatives were President of Kiribati Anote Tong, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Gordon Darcy Lio, Foreign Minister of Fiji RatuInoke Kubuabola, and Special Envoy of the Marshall Islands Tom Kijiner. President Yudhoyono said that APEC and non-APEC economies had been cooperating, especially in tackling climate change as well as disaster management. This informal meeting was held before the second session of the APEC Leaders' Meeting on Tuesday. Connectivity is one of the major prada outlet store issues discussed at the summit. The APEC leaders said in their declaration at the end of the leaders' meeting that they fully recognize the increasing need for more efficient flow of goods, services, capital and people. "We will shape the strategic landscape of our region through a long-term commitment that will accelerate our physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity, " the declaration said. Power failure was blamed in both cases, with TEPCO claiming that one of its workers accidentally pushed a stop button causing power to be cut to the plant's key systems at around 9:47 a.m. Monday morning. Monday's blunder follows a series of preventable oversights by the utility, including workers overfilling a storage tank to the point highly-radioactive water leaked into the adjacent Pacific Ocean, building shoddy, leaking storage tanks to contain massive prada bags online amounts of toxic wastewater and allowing rodents to short circuit a switchboard, leading to systems to cool spent fuel rods being offline for almost 30 hours. Naomi Hirose, TEPCO's president, was summoned to speak before an Upper House committee on Monday to account for the utility's continued gaffes and its plans to contain the huge volume of contaminated water that is collecting on a daily basis -- some of which has leaked into the ocean. "We need to increase the workforce," said Hirose, claiming that the staff at the Daiichi facility in Japan's northeast were over- stretched, "We also believe it's very important to improve their working environment." Industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) Chairman Shunichi Tanaka also attended the upper house meeting, with Tanaka again calling into question TEPCO's competence. "The situation at Fukushima Daiichi has not been sufficiently stabilized to reassure the public about safety," the NRA chief told Hirose and the upper house panel Monday. "We will proceed very carefullyhttp://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp with our safety inspections at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant," Tanaka said. Tanaka was referring to TEPCO's application to restart the shuttered Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture and insisted the utility provide a safety report by the end of the week.

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A blast went off near Shorab military base in southern Afghan province of Helmand prada bags uk Wednesday morning, leaving casualties, said a provincial official. "The incident took place at around 7:00 a.m. local time near the Shorab base, where Afghan army and British troops are stationed," the source told Xinhua anonymously. Seven or eight people were killed and injured in the incident, he said. The nature of the blast is not known. A provincial government spokesman Omar Zwak confirmed that they were aware of a bomb attack but said an investigation was started into the incident. "Details will be released to the media later at the day," he said. The Taliban insurgent group intensified attacks against Afghan security forces and some 78,000 NATO-led troops stationed in the prada bags onlinecountry since April when they launched a yearly offensive. A United States debt default will shake the fundamental element of the global financial system and cause it to enter uncharted waters, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has warned. "If that fundamental element is shaken -- even the U.S. government can default -- I don't know what will happen to your spreads or the rest of the complicated system of financial markets. You're going into unchartered waters," local daily Straits Times on Wednesday quoted Lee as saying in Bali, Indonesia at the end of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The United States government and lawmakers have until Thursday next week to reach an agreement and avoid a first-ever default on U.S. beats by dre cheap Treasury bonds -- a scenario that economists are warning could throw the world economy into a tailspin. Lee said that the political brinkmanship was an experiment that should be avoided. "Nobody knows what the impact will be," he said. The buying of U.S. Treasury bills has been to date a "risk-free solution" for governments and institutions with surpluses. Lee said if a solution could not be reached, it would send a negative signal to the world that the United States could not resolve its own practical problems. "I mean, these are problems which you have created for yourself in a game of chicken," he said. The U.S. Marine Corps and Japan 's Self-Defense Forces commenced joint military prada handbags outlet exercises on Tuesday using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga, local press reported. A total of 230 military personnel from both forces are expected to participate in the joint drills, which are being carried out at an SDF training field in the prefecture. The drills are officially planned as part of both countries' efforts to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases on Okinawa and its people, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency. The report cited Japanese defense officials as saying that one or two Osprey transport aircraft, part of the squadrons based in Japan, will be used during the program scheduled for Oct. 16, while the overall cheap beats by dre pro scope of the Shiga exercises was scaled down due to an approaching typhoon heading east from the seas off Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Prior to the military exercises, meanwhile, local papers said more than 1,000 people assembled on Monday near the training field to protest against the joint drills in Shiga, which end on Oct. 18. They also came to express their strong concerns over safety cheap dr dre beatsissues related to the aircraft. Opposition to the deployment of the Osprey remains strong in Okinawa because of its safety record, which includes crashes overseas, including a fatal accident. Anticipating the discontent, the prefectural office had already urged both forces to keep the U.S. teams from flying over commercial and residential areas as well as the country's biggest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa, located in the center of the prefecture. In addition to the Shiga drill, they will carry out disaster relief training in Kochi Prefecture in late October, using the transport in a simulated scenario of a major quake with the epicenter in the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast. The trough stretches along the east side of the country's main island of Honshu and an earthquake emanating from there could directly hit the Kochi area and cause a tsunami. On the impact on the Asia Pacific, Lee said that the concern is whether the United States will be able to sustain the consensus and the direction of its efforts in the region even though it discount designer handbags has the intentions. "We have to hope the Americans will be able to overcome these problems and maintain that direction despite their domestic difficulties," he said. Leaders and representatives of 21 Pacific-Rim economies gathered to meet here Monday on maintaining growth and regional integration amid an uneven economic recovery. Under the theme "Resilient Asia-Pacific, Engine of Global Growth," the high-profile summit seeks to ensure a sustained economic recovery in the Asia-Pacific as global growth remains subdued and its underlying dynamics are changing. "In spite of uneven pace of recovery in the APEC region, the APEC economies continue to be a driving force for global growth,"http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp said Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his keynote speech. According to the IMF, APEC is expected to grow by 6.3 percent in 2013 and by 6.6 percent in 2014. "At this challenging time, APEC

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An ex-minister of Bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to jail prada handbags sale until death for war crimes including mass killings. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 pronounced the verdict in capital Dhaka Wednesday afternoon, saying ex-Minister Abdul Alim, who faced 17 charges of crimes against humanity and genocide, will "die behind bars". The 83-year old Alim of ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Naitonalist Party (BNP) is alleged to have created and led pro-Pakistan militias which carried out numerous murders and rapes during the nine-month 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. The three-member panel of the ICT-2 read the summary of the 291- page verdict in the presence of a huge crowd of people, particularly journalists and lawyers amid tightened security measures in and around the tribunal. Wheelchair-bound Alim has already denied the charges, arguing that they are politically motivated. After cheap dr dre beats the verdict, Attorney General Mahbub-e-Alam told reporters that "Nine of 17 charges against Alim were proved beyond a reasonable doubt." "Alim deserves death penalty but he was not given death sentence considering his age and sickness," he quoted the tribunal as saying in the verdict. This is the eighth war crimes case verdict in Bangladesh since Jan. 21 this year. Last week the ICT-1 pronounced the verdict on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentence to another influential BNP leader and Member of Parliament Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, who is also now behind prada clutch the bars. Six current and former leaders of BNP's key ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami party had earlier been sentenced to either death or life imprisonment for crimes against humanity linked to the country's war of independence. Both BNP and Jamaat have dismissed the court as a government " show trial" and said it is a domestic set-up without the oversight or involvement of the United Nations. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday embarked on a four-day tour of Brunei and Indonesia, during which he will attend the ASEAN summit and the East Asian Summit. "Our engagement with the ASEAN and its member countries is the cornerstone of our 'Look East' policy and has evolved into a prada bags on sale strong, comprehensive and multi-faceted partnership in recent years," Singh, who will participate in the summit in Brunei, said in his departure statement. After the ASEAN summit and the East Asian Summit, the Indian Prime Minister will head to Indonesia where he will hold talks with top leaders in Jakarta from October 10 to 12. "The visits will further intensify our engagement with East, which has been at the forefront of our foreign policy, and contribute to peace, prosperity and stability in the Asia Pacific, " Singh said. India seeks greater economic ties and cooperation in areas of security, connectivity and culture with Southeast Asian countries. After returning to power in cheap beats by dre pro January 2009, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, established the first tribunal in March 2010, almost 40 years after the 1971 fight for independence from Pakistan to castigate those committed crimes against humanity during the nine-month war. A total of 56 more remaining prisoners of conscience were released on Tuesday under a fresh amnesty order of President U Thein Sein, official sources said. The move came as the government promised to release all political prisoners by the end of the year. The release also came shortly after President U Thein Sein left for Brunei earlier on Tuesday to attend the 23rd summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Myanmar freed 73 prada handbags outlet prisoners including 68 prisoners of conscience in July. Two people were killed and more than 92,600 people were affected because of flooding brought by continuous rains and thunderstorms due to intertropical convergence zone during the past days, a senior government official said Monday. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Eduardo del Rosario said the two victims, one of them a five-year old girl, drowned after they were swept by strong water currents in separate occasions both in central Philippine province of Antique. He said that a total of 18,828 families, or 92,658 people, from four regions in central and southern Philippines have http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.aspbeen affected by the weather disturbance. Up to now, a total of 29,820 prisoners are estimated to have been pardoned since the new civilian government took office on March 30,

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Sydney faces what could be its hottest October day on record on Thursday, with temperatures discount designer handbags expected to hit 42 degrees Celsius in the far west, local media reported. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology on Thursday issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds for people across southern and central New South Wales (NSW). "Gusty, strong to gale force west to northwesterly winds will persist ahead of this front over the Alps, before increasing over the remainder of southern and central NSW during Thursday morning and afternoon," the bureau warned. Gusty prada handbags sale winds of up to 100 km an hour are forecast for Sydney. "A low pressure trough is drawing the heat down into NSW and those strong north westerly winds drawing temperatures ... much hotund other areas of extreme risk," RFS spokesman Brendan Doyle told the Australian Associated Press (AAP). He said fires could start easily under these conditions and have the chance of affecting people in a matter of minutes. Results of a survey by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which was released on Wednesday, showed that Australians are becoming more concerned about privacy risks. The OAIC 2013 Community Attitudes to Privacy survey showed that people expect the organizations they deal with to take effective steps to safeguard their cheap dr dre beats personal information. The survey, conducted through landlines and mobile numbers of 1, 000 Australians, reports that 48 percent of Australians believe that online services, including social media, now pose the greatest privacy risk. Only 9 percent of survey respondents considered social media websites to be trustworthy in protecting privacy. Australian Information Commissioner, Professor John McMillan, said the survey results confirm the growing community concern about privacy risks arising from the explosion in use of social media since this survey was last run in 2007. Both Myanmar President U Thein Sein and Vice President Sai Mauk Kham have recently stressed the utmost prada clutch importance of peace and stability for development of the country' s Rakhine state hit by series of communal violence since last year. The two leaders visited Rakhine state in post-violence period, meeting local ethnic people in some townships including Sittway and Thandwe. U Thein Sein said development cannot be achieved with lack of peace and stability and rule of law, calling for people to cooperate in regional development tasks and to restore peace and stability in the region. He stressed the need that service personnel are to know not only political, economic and administration reform process of the government but also implementation of people-centered policy. Pointing out that prada bags on sale Sittway, the capital of the state, has sound foundations for development through implementation of Sittway- Paletwa-Kaladan project, he said, Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project will create job opportunities for the local people, especially the youths, and contribute to economic development. As Kyaukphyu SEZ project plays a crucial role in regional development of Kyaukphyu region, the government is inviting foreign and local investment in the economic zone. Concentrating on electrification of Rakhine state, the government is building a 50 mega-watt gas power plant in Kyaukphyu to supply power to 17 townships of the state. In accordance with its roadmap for rehabilitation tasks in the Rakhine state, Myanmar government is also cheap beats by dre pro trying to complete the citizenship scrutinizing process in the state involving both communities as early as possible despite setback to the immigration and issuing national scrutinizing citizenship, according to Vice President Sai Mauk Kham. "Only when the scrutinization task is completed, will the mistrust between the two communities in Rakhine state be removed," Sai told the Central Committee for Restoring Community Peace and Stability in Rakhine State. Sai tasked the work committee to draw plan for providing food to the internally-displaced people in the state next year. "Though restoration of community peace has achieved success to a certain extent, some conflicts occurred in some parts unexpectedly," he said, citing the latest recurrence of riot in Thandwe. "Action will be taken in accord with the law without discrimination on the ground of race and religion," prada handbags outlet warned U Thein Sein, who arrived in Thandwe on an inspection tour a day after the outbreak of the riot, saying that his government will use all ways and means vested by the constitution for restoring peace and stability and ensuring rule of law in the state. Sai said he was saddened by last series of riots in Rakhine state, Meikhtila, Pyay, Lashio and Kantbulu. He blamed the incidents for having strained the relations between Myanmar and some ASEAN member nations, hindered the flow of foreign investment to Myanmar, especially to Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone in Rakhine state, the government efforts of reform and poverty alleviation. A renewed communal violence, triggered by an argument over the parking of a three-wheeled motorbike in front of a shop, broke out in Thandwe on Sept. 29, killing five people and injuring five others with 59 houses, two religious buildings and one fuel station in more than 10 villages and wards being burnt down in three days. The violence has forced the authorities to extend the already- imposed curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., starting Oct. 1. "In the last five years we have seen a significant change in how people communicate and interact online. People's attitude to thehttp://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp importance of personal privacy protection is changing at the same time," said McMillan. Survey participants were asked whether certain industries were trustworthy. The three most trustworthy industries were health service providers, trusted by 90 percent of participants; financial institutions, trusted by 74 percent; and government, trusted by 69 percent.

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Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed here Wednesday prada bags to strive for equitable access to social protection and outlined concrete actions to improve the quality, coverage and sustainability of social protection. In a declaration adopted in the 23rd ASEAN Summit, titled the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection, they defined social protection as including welfare and development, safety nets, insurance, assistance and services. The declaration said, "Everyone, especially those who are poor, at risk, person with disabilities, older people, out-of-school youth, children, migrant workers, and other vulnerable groups, are entitled to have equitable access to social protection." It also said that the implementation of social discount designer handbags protection need to involve multiple stakeholders including governments, private sector, development partners, civil society and service providers. Social protection should be adaptive to the different risks like lifestyle and individual risks, social risks and emerging regional risks and vulnerabilities, said the declaration. To further strive to social protection, the ASEAN member states need to support national policies, strategies and mechanisms so as to strengthen the implementation of the program. The members are expected to allocate adequate financial resources for the program in line with national targets and subject to the capability of each government. The implantation of the social protection program also needs progress toward prada handbags sale Universal Health Coverage and cooperation between ASEAN bodies and ASEAN dialogue partners, according to the declaration. Singapore is expected to be among the first countries to sign a new United Nations agreement on curbing mercury poisoning and pollution on Thursday, local newspaper reported on Thursday. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Kumamoto, Japan, for a diplomatic conference on Thursday and Friday. He is expected to sign the Minamata cheap dr dre beats Convention on Mercury on behalf of Singapore, the Straits Times said. The agreement will have countries pledge to ban or reduce the import, export, use and manufacturing of products with mercury, among other measures to protect people and the environment from the risk of mercury exposure. Multiple bombing, arson and gun attacks in the deep Southern Thailand Wednesday left a female teacher and two rangers dead in one of the biggest coordinated waves of suspected insurgent violence in years. Government sources said the attacks in Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani and Songkhla were intended to mark the founding anniversaries of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and Pattani United Liberation Organization prada clutch (Pulo) rebel groups. More than 40 attacks were reported across 17 districts of these four provinces. Eleven attacks - six bombings, four arson incidents, and one tanker theft - were reported in five districts of Narathiwat, Pol Maj Gen Patthanawuth Angkhanawin, chief of the Narathiwat provincial police said. In Yala, 11 ATM bomb attacks in Muang, Yaha and Bannang Sata districts were reported. Suspected insurgents stole an empty tanker usually used for carrying water from Narathiwat's Rueso district and filled it with fuel. They hosed the fuel onto a building at Ja Kwa police station in Yala's Raman district. Police caught them in the act. The attackers fled before they could set fire to the oil-soaked building. A total of 15 attacks were reported in six prada bags on sale districts of Pattani including 12 ATM bombings, one bomb attack, one arson attack, and a combination of a petrol bomb attack and shooting. Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok, who is in charge of internal security, said the spate of attacks was intended as a show of the insurgency's combat potential, to mark the founding anniversaries of the BRN and the Pulo. The BRN was created on Oct 10, 1963 and Pulo on Oct 11, 1968. Thailand has about 60,000 troops stationed in the south, where nearly a decade of conflict has left more than 5,700 people dead. Editor: Mu Xuequan Mercury is a heavy metal that can be released into the air and water through activities such as small-scale gold mining and cheap beats by dre pro waste incineration. It is found in products such as some thermometers, batteries and skin-lightening creams, too. Exposure to mercury can cause damage to the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and nervous and immune systems. However, the agreement will only take effect when at least 50 countries sign it and ratify it domestically. More than a hundred countries, including Singapore, have attended sessions to negotiate its terms in the past three years. Singapore already meets several of the agreement's terms. Cosmetics with mercury and its compounds have been banned here since 2008. Only products to be applied around the eyes are exempted, but they cannot contain more than 0.007 per cent of mercury to be used as a preservative. The Ministry of Health and Health Sciences Authority said in a joint statement that some eye and ear products and nasal sprays here may have http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp mercury in small amounts as a preservative, but these are safe.

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Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Saturday that former military cheap beats by dre ruler, Pervez Musharraf, cannot leave the country as his name is included in the list of those who are barred from going abroad. The comments came amid strong speculations in the Pakistan that Musharraf can leave the country under a deal with the government. However, the Interior Minister said Musharraf's name is included in the Exit Control List and he can only leave the country if allowed by the highest judiciary. The Elections Commission of Maldives has decided to hold the prada bags first round of the presidential election on October 19. This was confirmed by Vice President of the EC Ahmed Fayaz Hassan early Wednesday. The decision by the EC followed Supreme Court verdict on Monday night. The Maldives Supreme Court annulled the results of September 7' s presidential elections and ordered a fresh ballot within the next 13 days. The court ordered that if no candidate secured an absolute majority in the fresh elections to be held before October 20, a runoff election should be held before November 3. During the last round of elections in September the discount designer handbags front- runner was former President Mohammad Nasheed who was controversially ousted from power in 2012. However. it is now clear that he together with tycoon Gasim Ibrahim and half-brother of former autocratic leader Mohamad Gayoom MP Abdulla Yamin will all re-enter the fray. Following the results of the first round Gasim and Yamin lodged cases at the Supreme Court alleging election rigging and calling for the first round to be annulled. The prolonged legal wrangles resulted in the second round being postponed by the Supreme Court before being eventually cancelled sparking protests from supporters of Nasheed. The Supreme Court in its verdict noted that a total of 5,elieved that as only around 2,677 votes had separated the second-placed Abdulla Yamin and third-placed Gasim Ibrahim, the findings are significant enough to affect the results of the first prada handbags sale round. In addition, the Supreme Court also declared a 16-point guideline on how to proceed with fresh polls, which is expected to be put into practice in a fresh round to be held later this month. The Supreme Court order came days after a television station supportive of Nasheed was set on fire sparking call from the international community for a transparent investigation. The international community led by the U.S. and the United Nations have also been closely observing the polls and calling for a swift resumption of the electoral process. A new president must be sworn in by November 11, according to the Constitution. "Musharraf's name was on Exit Control List and it would not be removed till the court's decision," Khan told a news conference in Islamabad. Speculations of Musharraf's leaving the country gripped Pakistan after he granted in third criminal case against him few days ago. On Thursday, the police formally arrested the former President in murder case of a religious cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in a military raid on cheap dr dre beats Islamabad's Red Mosque in 2007. Ghazi, the deputy prayers leader, was among the 90 religious students, killed during the operation. Musharraf was also charged in the murder case of the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the killing of a senior tribal elder Nawab Akbar Bugti in 2006 and placing top judges illegally under house arrest during his rule. He already got bail in two cases. The former military ruler also faces high treason case and the government has formally approached the Supreme Court to start the trial. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had himself declared to initiate high treason case against Musharraf for abrogating the constitution when he sacked his government in 1999 and later suspended the constitution in 2007 when he had imposed emergency rule. The apex court had ordered the government to question Musharraf as to why he had dismissed an elected government and in what circumstances prada clutch he had suspended the constitutions in 2007. The Interior Minister said that the Federal Investigation Agency has been directed to accelerate investigation into the treason case against former president and present the report as soon as possible. He said the investigators have been directed to complete investigation in six weeks. An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted 102 km SSE of Suva, Fiji at 15:15:24 Hong Kong Time on Sun (07:15:24 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 56.88 km, was initially determined to be at 18.9652 degrees south latitude and 178.8941 degrees east longitude. Indian police said that two people were killed and two others injured after a 150-year-old residential building collapsed in the Indian capital Delhi on Wednesday. "The building collapsed like a pack of cards at Azad Maidan Market locality in the north of the national capital at 8 a.m. ( local time). While two dead bodies have been pulled out of the debris, two others injured in the collapse were rushed to a cheap beats by dre pro nearby hospital," a senior police official said. The Eighth East Asia Summit (EAS) will open in the Bruneian capital of Bandar Seri Begawan on Thursday, back-to-back with the 23rd the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and other related summits. The EAS will draw leaders of 18 countries including ten ASEAN members and eight dialogue partners namely China, Japan, Republic of Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the United States. Since its inception in 2005, the EAS has served as a forum for dialogue on broad strategic issues of relevance to East Asia as well as other regional and global issues, with the focus on areas such as international terrorism, energy, infectious diseases, sustainable development, poverty reduction and others. The historic decision for the ASEAN to host the first EAS was made at the ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan and the Republic of Korea) Summit in November 2004. The first EAS was inaugurated on Dec. 14, 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Leaders signed the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the East Asia Summit. At the second EAS in January 2007 in Cebu, the Philippines, leaders signed Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security. The third EAS was held in November of 2007 in Singapore. Leaders at the summit signed the Singapore Declaration on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment. At the fourth EAS in October 2009 in Hua Hin, Thailand, leaders passed http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp the Cha-am Hua Hin Statement on EAS Disaster Management. The fifth EAS opened on Oct. 30, 2010 in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Leaders decided to officially invite Russia and the United States to join the EAS starting 2011 in a way to expand the dialogue mechanism. At the sixth EAS opened on Nov. 19, 2011 in Bali, Indonesia, leaders adopted the Declaration of the EAS on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations and the Declaration of the 6th EAS on ASEAN Connectivity.

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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has elected Bill Shorten as its next federal leader prada outlet after a month- long battle for this top job between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten on Sunday afternoon in Canberra. Before the 2013 election was called, then Leader of ALP Kevin Rudd convinced the federal Labor Caucus to endorse a new rule allowing the leadership to be determined by a ballot weighted 50 percent caucus members and 50 percent ordinary members of the party. With Rudd has stepped down, there is a push within the ALP for the rule change to be given its first test run. According to the new rules, if there is a contest, new party rules stipulate that the leader must be elected jointly by the party membership and by Caucus, with each given equal weight of 50 cheap beats by dre percent. Grassroots members will vote first and then caucus will conduct a ballot without knowing the result of the community poll. The result was announced to the Caucus at a special meeting in Parliament House on Sunday afternoon. According to the result, Bill Shorten secured 63.9 percent of the Caucus vote and 40 percent of the members vote for an overall total of 52 percent in this leadership campaign. He will now lead the ALP in opposition as it faces off against Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Labor national president Jenny McAllister said on Sunday afternoon that Shorten emerges prada bags from the "largest, most democratic process ever faced by any candidate for Labor's leadership." "We gave our members a say in the most important decision made by our political party and they've responded with vigor," she said. "There has been more than 30,000 votes cast. That's 74 percent of eligible voters, and we received more than 4,000 expressions of interest from new members." Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard congratulated Bill Shorten on her twitter. "Congratulations to Bill Shorten on becoming Labor leader. A great honor! I wish Bill all the best," she said. According to local media, Bill Shorten was one of the main powerbrokers behind the ousting of Kevin Rudd in 2010 - earning Bill Shorten the damning label of "prime ministerial assassin". And three years later the assassin struck again, when he abandoned Julia Gillard to back Kevin Rudd before the discount designer handbags 2013 federal election. Over the past six years of government, Albanese has held key ministers including deputy prime minister, minister for infrastructure, transport, broadband, communications and the digital economy, and leader of the House of Representatives in the Gillard/Rudd government. And Bill Shorten has held key ministries including education and workplace relations in the Rudd/Gillard government. Before entering parliament, he was a union official, holding the position of national prada handbags sale secretary for the Australian Workers' Union between 2001 and 2007. At least 12 people were killed and three others were missing as Typhoon Nari (local name Santi) continued to batter the northern part of Philippines, a senior government official said Saturday. Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Eduardo del Rosario said that those who were killed were due to fallen trees, electrocution, mudslide, collapsed structure and drowning. The three missing fishermen came from Tinago village, Viga town cheap dr dre beats in Northern Philippine province of Catanduanes. According to the agency, over 9,400 families or about 59,000 people were affected in 50 villages in six provinces. Of the affected population, more than 6,000 people were displaced and served both inside and outside the evacuation centers. Some villages in the Northern Philippine provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga were submerged by flood, while there were also provinces in the north which were suffering from power outage. The Philippines' state weather agency said that the typhoon slightly slowed down and maintained its strength as it continues to move over the South China Sea. It has a maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour prada bags on sale near the center and gustiness of up to 150 kph. By Sunday afternoon, Nari is expected to be 520 km west http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp of Iba, Zambales or outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

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Philippine Deputy Presidential Spokeswoman Abigail Valte on Sunday reassured prada bags families of the victims of the Quirino hostage crisis of 2010 that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists that their plight is not being set aside and efforts to find a solution is being done. Valte said in an interview over state radio Radyo ng Bayan that President Benigno Aquino III had already instructed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to provide the families of the victims of the hostage crisis a briefing on the status of the case and how the legal process works in Manila. "It is a way of moving forward. It doesn't mean that it diminishes what had happened or that it is being set aside. On the contrary, it is being addressed and, hopefully, both parties discount designer handbags did acknowledge the need to find a resolution to it," she added. Aquino met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying last week at the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) Summit in Bali in Indonesia where they discussed the hostage incident and the efforts of the two governments to come up with a solution to finally put the issue behind them. Aquino said during the meeting that the Philippines sincerely condoles with the families of the victims but neither he nor the Philippine government could apologize for the incident as it was instigated by just one person. Local media also reported on Sunday that preparations are under way for the trip to Hong Kong of Leila de Lima, who has been tasked to explain to victims of the 2010 Manila hostage crisis the country's judicial process. A MIG-21 fighter jet belonging to the Egyptian army crashed on Sunday near the southern ancient city of Luxor, leaving two villagers prada handbags sale killed and two others wounded on the ground, security sources told Xinhua. The Russian-made fighter jet was conducting a daily training mission when it caught fire after takeoff from a military base. Both pilots bailed out before the plane crashed in the populated area of al-Madamoud of Luxor, a famous tourism resort in Egypt, official news agency MENA reported. It said the accident happened due to a technical malfunction. The wounded people were sent to a hospital in Luxor and local authorities started to investigate the cause, security sources said. The Manila hostage-taking crisis occurred on Aug. 23, 2010 when a dismissed Philippine National Police officer cheap dr dre beats hijacked a tourist bus carrying 25 people in Quirino grandstand in Rizal Park. Botched hostage rescue led to the death of eight Hong Kong tourists. In an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul on Friday to conclude the talks on security pact known as Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) but the subject remained unresolved, local media reported on Sunday. "John Kerry's longest talks, 26-hours talks, with President Hamid Karzai remained unresolved over providing immunity to the U. S. soldiers, because President Karzai said out that the people of Afghanistan would make decision in this respect," a private television channel Tolo aired in its news bulletin on Sunday morning. A leading local newspaper the daily Hasht-e-Subh also focused on the intense talks between the U.S. top diplomat and Afghan president, saying both sides after two prada clutch successive nights of negotiations over inking security pact announced their agreement at a joint press conference late Saturday night. Confirming the intensity of the talks, Kerry said at the press conference with Karzai in Afghan Presidential Palace Saturday night that "serious effort over the last hours late last night, whole last night, all today we have been discussing we have been negotiating and as president said it is not easy negotiation because it involves issues of life and death, issues of the future of the country and issues of emotions in the history." "President Karzai categorically stated at the conference that the agreement over inking security pact will be presented to the traditional Loya Jirga or grand assembly of chieftains, prada bags on sale notables and government functionaries and then to parliament where the representatives of the people of Afghanistan will make final decision with regard to judicial immunity for foreign soldiers who remain in Afghanistan after 2014," Hasht-e-Subh wrote in its editorial. The newspaper also added that "long-term partnership of Unites States with Afghanistan is essential for viable security in Afghanistan and the representatives of people at the parliament and in the Loya Jirga are cognizant of the fact." President Karzai revealed last week that he would convene the Loya Jirga possibly within month. Another paper the Daily Afghanistan in its editorial described having security pact with the United States as very vital for Afghanistan's security, saying since Afghan national security forces are not capable enough to ensure the country's security after 2014 withdrawal of NATO-led forces from Afghanistan, it is necessary for the government to have long-term support of the international community. "With the arrival of secretary of states, John Kerrycheap beats by dre pro to Kabul on Friday that talks on BSA began and it was supposed to be announced reaching agreement on the core issue on Saturday at a joint press conference with President Karzai but the press conference suspended due to obstacle on the way to reach agreement. " "It is naive to have the support of United States and NATO- member states with the absence of security pact with U.S.," the paper warned. An English newspaper the Daily Outlook in an article published in Sunday's edition writes, "U.S. officials have once again renewed the warnings that the country may consider pulling out all forces as the negotiations with the Afghan government is not making any progress." It also wrote in http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp the article that "Afghanistan has its own legitimate demands in the negotiations which include building capable army that could deal with both internal and external threats and protect Afghanistan from foreign aggressions if U.S. remains in Afghanistan beyond 2014." The paper also noted that the United States has withdrawn troops from Iraq when it failed to ensure immunity for its soldiers there. "Undeniably a complete withdrawal of NATO forces would inevitably result in considerable decline in foreign assistance, something Afghanistan cannot afford to bear," the Daily Outlook cautioned in the article.

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A powerful tropical cyclone hit the eastern Indian state of Odisha late prada bags on sale Saturday night, causing heavy rainfall and sending seawater surging inland. The cyclone, nicknamed Phailin, made landfall in Odisha at 9.30 p.m. (local time) last night with wind speed of 200 km per hour, snapping communication, power lines and uprooting trees, said authorities. Though no one has been killed in the cyclone, seven deaths happened before the storm made landfall in incidents like wall collapse, a senior police official said Sunday. In 1999, a similar cyclone killed more than 10,000 people in Odisha. According to authorities, this time half a million people have been evacuated from the path of the cyclone in Odisha and the neighboring southern state of Andhra cheap beats by dre pro Pradesh, which is not that affected. "The Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force are all helping in the evacuation process, alongside the country's disaster management personnel," a government official said. He said that all the troops would be starting re-development work in the two states once the fury of cyclone Phaili abated. Local TV channels reported that trees have been falling and there was no drinking water in many parts of Odisha, with Ganjam District being the worst affected. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has appealed for calm. "I request everyone not to panic. Please assist the government. Everyone from villages to the state headquarters has been put on alert," he said. The weather department has predicted heavy to prada handbags outlet very heavy falls in Odisha and north coastal Andhra Pradesh in the next 36 hours, and rainfall in the neighboring states of West Bengal and Jharkhand. Seven Afghan civilians were killed and nine people were wounded Saturday evening when a rocket fired by Taliban hit a bazaar in the country's eastern province of Nuristan, said the Interior Ministry Sunday morning. "Seven civilians were killed and seven civilians and two policemen were wounded as a rocket fired by the Taliban terrorists struck the Duhab district bazaar of Nuristan province at round 4: 15 p.m. (local time) Saturday," the ministry said in a statement. Describing the attack as a coward act, the ministry strongly condemned prada outlet store the incident. In addition, the militants killed two children aging 8 and 10 in neighboring Kunar province, the provincial police chief said earlier on Sunday. Negotiators of the Philippine government and the country's largest rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ended early Sunday the 41st round of formal exploratory talks in Malaysia without signing any of the two remaining annexes of the framework agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB).At least 50 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a stampede in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Sunday, a senior police official said. "The incident happened at a temple in the state's Datia district, where some 500,000 devotees gathered for a religious festival. Between 50 and 60 people have died and over 100 injured. The injured are hospitalized. The toll is likely to rise," Deputy Inspector General of beats by dre cheap Police D.K. Arya told the media. Quoting eye-witnesses, some local TV channels reported that the stampede broke out after some devotees jumped queue and police resorted to baton charge to control the crowd. However, some other media reported the stampede took place after the devotees ran haywire following a rumor that a bridge had collapsed, following which many people even jumped on to a swollen river. A probe has been ordered into the incident, the official said. State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a compensation of 1.5 lakh rupees (3,000 U.S. dollars) each to the families of the deceased. In the past year, dozens of people were killed in three similar tragedies. In 2011, over 100 died at a festival in the southern state of Kerala. But both sides said that they have made substantial progress on the remaining annexes on power-sharing and normalization. "They have proceeded in exhaustive, prada bags online honest discussions in order to identify the best formulations for an agreement that would respond to the aspirations of both Parties," they said in a joint statement. The remaining challenges and the time constraints demand that the panels remain focused on completing the annexes following a break for Eid'Ul'Adha, the statement added. The government and the MILF said that they have a full understanding of their responsibility as they strive toward a sustainable and inclusive solution for the benefit of all people in the Bangsamoro. Both sides signed early this year the annexes on transitional arrangements and modalities and wealth-sharing. The four annexes and the FAB will form part of a comprehensive peace deal that both sides hope to sign before the end of the year. The peace agreement aims to end the four-decade armed conflict in southern Philippines by prada bags uk creating a Bangsamoro government that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. "The innocent children named Tahib and Saraj were kidnapped by the militants a couple of days ago in Maidan village of Wata Pur district but their bodies were found by police near the same area overnight," Habibullah Sayyedkhili told Xinhua. Locals said the children were killed by the Taliban who accused them for spying to the government and foreign troops. However, Sayyedkhili said children were taking their cattle to sell in a local market when the militants kidnapped them. More than 1,300 Afghan civilians were killed and over 2,500 injured in conflict-related violence in the first half of this year, a 23 percent rise http://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp in overall civilian casualties compared with last year, the UN Assistance Mission in the country reported recently. The Taliban were blamed for majority of the deaths and injuries.

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An earthquake measuring 5.8 Richter scale jolted Aceh province in northern tip of Sumatra Island cheap dre beats earlier Monday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here. The quake struck at 00:32 a.m. Jakarta time Monday (1732 GMT Sunday) with epicenter at 65 km southwest Aceh Barat of the province and with a depth of 14 km under seabed, an official of the agency told Xinhua by phone. Indonesia sits on a quake-hit zone known as "the Pacific Ring of Fire." A man in Afghan military uniform on Sunday shot dead one NATO soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition forces confirmed. "An prada outlet International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member was killed today when an individual wearing an ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces ) uniform shot the ISAF service member in eastern Afghanistan," the NATO-led ISAF said in a statement. "(The) ISAF and ANSF have secured the scene. ISAF and ANSF forces are conducting an investigation, and more details will be released as appropriate," it noted. If the attacker confirmed to be a member of the ANSF, the incident will be the latest in the so-called "green on blue" insider attack when Afghan army of police turned their weapons against their foreign partners. With Sunday's casualty, up to 14 foreign soldiers had been killed in 10 "green on blue" attacks since January. The statement did not disclose the nationality of the victim under the ISAF policy. More than 87,000 NATO-led troops are stationed in Afghanistan. As many as 140 NATO soldiers have been killed in war-torn country so far this cheap beats by dre year. At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a stampede in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Sunday, a senior police official said. "The death toll has risen to 91 and 10 others are in a critical condition," Deputy Inspector General of Police D.K. Arya told the media. "The incident happened at a temple in the state's Datia district, where some 500,000 devotees gathered for a religious festival," he said. He had earlier put the death toll at between 50 and 60. Quoting eye-witnesses, some local TV channels reported that the stampede broke out after some devotees jumped queue and police resorted to baton charge to control the crowd. A total prada bags of nine people were killed in traffic accidents across Turkey as the Turkish people began to celebrate their Eid al-Adha holidays on Sunday, local Today's zaman reported. On Sunday, the police reported that four people were killed when a car hit a cement barrier in the central province of Amasya. Meanwhile, three people were killed when a car went out of control and hit them while they were walking on a road in the western province of Izmir, the police said, adding that the other two victims died from traffic accidents. Despite the warnings from officials and attempts to improve road safety conditions, accidents were likely to increase during the holidays as most of the Turkish people would go discount designer handbags back to their hometowns to stay with their families as a tradition, the officials added. However, some other media reported the stampede took place after the devotees ran haywire following a rumor that a bridge had collapsed, following which many people even jumped on to a swollen river. A probe has been ordered into the incident, the official said. State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a compensation of 1.5 lakh rupees (3,000 U.S. dollars) each to the families of the deceased. In the past year, dozens of people were killed in three similar tragedies. In 2011, over 100 died at a festival in the southern state of Kerala. An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted 18km SW of Meulaboh, Indonesia at 01:32: 45 Hong Kong The Philippines is preparing for another tropical storm which is expected to enter the country this week, the state weather agency said Sunday. The Philippine Atmospheric, prada handbags sale Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as of 4:00 p.m. local time, typhoon " Wipha" was located on all available data at 1,340 kilometers east of northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 150 kilometer per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 185 kph. It is forecast to move north northwest at 15 kph. The possible entry of the new typhoon came as typhoon "Nari" ( local name "Santi") just left the Philippines, killing at least 13 people. Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail prada clutch Valte in an interview at a state-run radio station said the government is stepping up its disaster readiness and response programs to address the needs of the communities to be affected by "Wipha." She also said government agencies are still implementing contingency measures to help mitigate the impact of typhoon "Nari. " She said thehttp://www.ledgardjepson.com/prada.asp National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council continues to assess the damages brought by "Nari," noting that 46,295 families or 219,591 persons were affected in 11 provinces.

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Indian army chief General Bikram Singh Friday denied reports that a village near mulberry alexa bag line-of-control (LoC) in Indian-controlled Kashmir has been occupied by militants or Pakistani troops. "They have been stopped, prevented. They have been neutralized (some of them) and operations are on to flush them out," Singh told media in New Delhi. "No village has been occupied. Nothing like that. The core commander has clarified that." A fierce gunfight is going on between Indian army and militants since Sept. 24 in Keran sector of frontier Kupwara district, around 135 km northwest of Srinagar cheap dre beats city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian army have reportedly pressed in choppers and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to take on the infiltrators. Earlier this week, media reports said Pakistani troops have occupied village Shala Bhata near LoC in Kupwara. However, the army denied the reports, saying they are fighting a group of 30-40 infiltrators in the area. The General officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt. Gen. Gurmeet Singh on Wednesday said 12 infiltrators were killed and five Indian troopers were wounded in the standoff. Indian media compared the ongoing clashes in Keran to the " Kargil War" -- a brief war between India and Pakistan in 1999 on LoC Kargil in the region's Ladakh province. India had to fight Pakistani troops to recapture its posts in the hilly terrain of Kargil. "We are dominating from all sides. The terrain is very difficult, treacherous and they (militants) are stuck in cheap beats by dre that," said the army chief. "We will get them out. It's a question of time." Pakistan meanwhile has denied India's accusation that its troops were involved in massive infiltration as "baseless" and described it "a blatant lie." The LoC is a de facto border dividing Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani controlled parts. Kashmir, a Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both in full. Since their independence from British, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir. Bilateral relations between the two nuclear neighbors have been strained over recent clashes on LoC in the disputed region. The fresh confrontation comes days after Indiancustom beats by dre Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif agreed in a meeting in New York to reduce tension along the LoC in Kashmir as the first step towards a comprehensive peace in the restive region. Forty two percent of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in Asia Pacific are 'very confident' of revenue growth over the next 12 months and close to 70 percent of them intend to increase their investments in the region, according to a study by think tank PwC, released here on Saturday. The study, 'Towards resilience and growth: Asia Pacific business in transition', surveyed nearly 500 business leaders on their attitudes toward doing business in the region. It was cheap dr dre beats released at a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC). The survey found confidence among Asia Pacific-based executives on the rise. Some 42 percent of executives say they are 'very confident' of revenue growth in the coming year, up from 36 percent last year. Longer term, 52 percent say they are confident of growth over the next three to five years, about the same as in 2012. The findings come just hours ahead of the crucial APEC CEO Summit. According to the survey, the trend toward urbanization in many Asia Pacific economies, the emergence of the local middle-class and the need for infrastructure development are the main reasons for driving the increase in confidence. "Executives in the Asia Pacific region are in the midst cheap beats by dre pro of a major transformation taking place within the region driven by a gradual but steady rise in income and economic opportunity for millions of people," says Dennis M. Nally, Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PWC). Two merchant ships collided with each other in waters off the western Japanese island of Shikoku late Wednesday, but no one was injured, local maritime officials said Thursday. According to Japan's Coast Guard, the incident occurred at around 9:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday when a 50,686-ton Singapore container ship with 21 crew members from seven countries including South Africa and Britain collided with a 4594-ton Panama- registered cargo ship with 13 customize beats by dre crew members, including one Chinese sailor, about 17 kilometers east off the coastline of Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture on the island. A spokesperson at the 5th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Kobe City said to Xinhua that no one was injured in the incident, adding that the two vessels are able to sail normally after the collision. He said that the Singapore-registered "Safmarine Makutu" was traveling from Osaka, western Japan to South Korea while the Panama flagged "Pices" was heading toward Toyohashi Port in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan from South Korea. Teams from the regional coast guard headquarters have started thier investigation into details of the incident since Thursday morning. "While overall confidence in growth in Asia Pacific remains undiminished, APEC economies now also face many of the uncertainties of slower growth, previously limited to the more cheap beats by dre headphones developed markets." In the survey, executives were also asked to identify their ' dark horse' pick an Asia Pacific economy that could surprise with more business opportunity than is currently expected.

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Speaking at a press conference held in APEC media center here, John Kerry said cheap beats by dre headphones that Indonesia is a very powerful significant member in the forum that was initially established in 1989 and now grouped by 21 economies in Asia and Pacific. "We view Indonesia as a very important partner in terms of securing the rule and the standards of trade which is so critical to the transparency, capability and the willingness of people to invest capital and grow the economy," Kerry said. John Kerry is to attend the ministerial meeting in 2013 APEC, held in Indonesia's island beats by dre wireless resort of Bali, replacing U.S. President Barack Obama who finally opted to cancel his Asian trip, which would have also taken in Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines besides the APEC summit, to deal with the first government shutdown in 17 years.. John Kerry emphasized that the absence of President Obama in the event themed "Resilient Asia Pacific, Engine of Global Growth" would not reduce the U.S. commitments in Asia. "I do want to make it clear. We already know what is happening in Washington. Our commitment and engagement in Asia, including our reference to perform trade and investment and appearance in the region, remains one of our prime priorities," Kerry said. John Kerry is scheduled to stay in Bali for five days to attend the APEC forum and related meetings. APEC groups 21 members in the Asia-Pacific region. The group of economies accounts for 45 percent of global trade with transactions of above 18 trillion U.S. studio beats by dre cheap dollars per year. It accounts for up to 60 percent of global Gross Domestic Product ( GDP). Units of Afghan police backed by the national army have killed 18 Taliban militants during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Saturday. The operations were carried out in Kandahar, Farah and Helmand provinces, during which one militant was injured and 13 others made captive, said the statement. There were no casualties on side of the security forces, the statement contended. Taliban militants are yet to make comment. Delegates attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting (AMM) were reminded to address three issues to ensure the accomplishment of welfare, sustainable and equitable growth among economies in the region that hosts 45 percent of global beats by dre solo cheap trade. "Those three matters were to assure the accomplishment of Bogor Goals, assure inclusive growth that refers to equality and social welfare and accelerating growth in Asia Pacific region by addressing connectivity across the region," Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said in his speech to open the 2- day 2013 APEC Ministerial Meeting (AMM) started here on Friday. Marty acted as the co-chair of the session along with Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan. "When we began our chairmanship of APEC in January this year, in the midst of global economic turmoil, we recognized that in the face of deep regional and global challenges and opportunities, we would need to fake beats by dre walk that extra mile," he said. Prior to the ministerial plenary meeting, a series of meetings on APEC priority issues were held in several Indonesian cities throughout this year among senior officials from 21 economies. Participants assessed member economies' progress toward fostering a more resilient Asia-Pacific that can serve as an engine for balanced, sustainable growth with equity and improve global growth. Other issues discussed at the meetings included multilateral trade system, women and small and medium sized enterprises empowerment, energy and cheap solo beats by dre food resilience, health, inclusive financial, infrastructure and investment development, cross-border education, emergency response and transportation facilities. "Besides significant advancement in discussions on those issues, the senior officials had also reached agreement on APEC Framework on Connectivity, a cornerstone to further strengthen the cooperation between APEC economies regional integration," Marty said. Ministers also considered the multilateral trading system, and its role in making the Asia Pacific more prosperous. "It is fair to say that our 2020 target of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific is not far from where we are now," stated Gita Wirjawan. On Saturday, the ministerial meeting would be held in two separated discussion panels, themed "APEC and the Evolving Regional Architecture," and "Roadmap to Bali MC9 (The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference) and APEC 2013 First Priority, Attaining the Bogor Goals." After those panel discussions, the ministerial meeting would be concluded with a plenary session beats headphones cheap discussing efforts to attain equitable growth and improve connectivity among APEC economies. Indonesia hosts and chairs the economic cooperation forum of economies in Asia Pacific region this year.

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South Korea and the United States planned to discuss next month whether to entitle cheap beats by dre products manufactured in the Kaesong industrial complex to preferential tariffs under the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) framework, Seoul's commerce ministry said Sunday. The first meeting of the Committee for Offshore Processing Zone on the Korean Peninsula will be held on Nov. 4 between Seoul and Washington, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The agreement on the scheduled meeting came after South Korean Trade Minister Yoon Sang-jick and U.S. Trade custom beats by dre Representative Michael Froman met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, Indonesia to assess the bilateral FTA between Seoul and Washington that took effect in 2012. The ministry said that the two nations had been closely talking about schedules for the offshore processing area meeting, noting that the fixed date came after the normalization of the inter- Korean factory park in Kaesong, the border town of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Seoul and Pyongyang reopened the jointly operated factory park in mid-September, ending the five-month-long suspension caused by the DPRK's withdrawal of its workers from the industrial zone in protest against the joint military drills between South Korea and cheap dr dre beats the U.S. If Seoul and Washington agree to include Kaesong in the offshore processing zone under the bilateral trade deal, products made by South Korean companies in factories in Kaesong would be entitled to preferential tariffs when they are exported to the U.S. Preferential tariffs are applied solely on products manufactured in territories of countries who signed the FTA, but the agreement on the offshore processing zone would widen the advantage to offshore regions agreed upon. China and South Korea also agreed to discuss the offshore processing zone in the upcoming talks after wrapping up the first- stage negotiations on the bilateral trade pact. It was expected to help develop the Kaesong industrial complex into an international factory park. Centered on a booming travel industry, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies could create 2.6 million cheap beats by dre pro more jobs and generate an impressive 89 billion U.S. dollars in earnings by 2016 by promoting visa facilitation, a study released on the sidelines of APEC said on Sunday. South Korea on Friday expressed deep regret over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s condemnation of President Park Geun-hye by her name. "It is deeply regrettable that North Korea (DPRK) criticized our head of state with unmentionable words by name," Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eui-do told customize beats by dre an emergency press briefing. The DPRK's Policy Department of the National Defense Commission (NDC) said in a spokesman's statement earlier Friday that if "Park Geun-hye and her cohorts" seek ruthlessly to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear program and subvert its regime in collusion with foreign power under the pretext of causing changes in the DPRK, it would be equivalent to digging its own graves. The report, "The Impact of Visa Facilitation in APEC Economies" released by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), indicates that although there has been successful collaboration across the APEC region to facilitate visas, 21 percent of expected international tourists still have to obtain a cheap beats by dre headphones traditional visa prior to traveling. Indonesian Tourism Minister Mari Pangestu highlighted the importance of expanding visa facilitation and pointed out that the challenge now is to establish cooperation among a wide range of institutions and officials. "We have to bring together officials working in tourism, finance, customs, immigration, security, transportation and airport authorities who are in different working groups. This year for the first time there is an attempt at coordination and we hope to end up with a plan on visa and travel facilitation," she explained. Both UNWTO and WTTC have been working on improving visa facilitation in collaboration with other international bodies including World Economic Forum and APEC. The study points out that despite progress many countries still need to improve delivery of information, facilitate current beats by dre wireless process to obtain visas and institute eVisa programs. "This report clearly shows that placing visa facilitation as a national priority can translate into significant socio-economic benefits in terms of income and jobs generated by the growth of tourism demand. APEC has been a leading organization in regional integration and we believe visa facilitation can advance growth among its members," said UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai. Investor relation (IR) session will be held in Kaesong in late October to encourage foreigners to invest into the joint factory park just north of the heavily armed border. The investment briefing would be subject to foreigners belonging to foreign Chamber studio beats by dre cheap of Commerce and Industry stationed in Seoul, but details had yet to be decided.

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AHeavy rains and high winds had caused a big tree to collapse on the 12th century Preah beats by dre cheap Khan temple in the Angkor Archeological Park in northwestern Siem Reap province, an official confirmed Sunday. "The tree, up to 30 meters high and 0.8 meter in diameter, fell on the body of the temple on Friday when there was a strong rain and wind," Sok Leakna, deputy director general of Apsara Authority, which is in charge of protection and management of the Angkor Archaeological Park, told Xinhua. "A small portion of the temple broke apart and fell down, but there was no crack or serious damage to the whole body of the temple," he said. The fallen tree grew about 10 meters from the temple, he said, adding that experts have been sent to cut the upper stem of studio beats by dre cheap the tree as the trunk is still lying on the temple. Heavy rains and high winds have been blamed for the collapse of about 7 big trees in the Angkor complex these days, but only one tree hit the temple, he said. Preah Khan temple is located in the Angkor Archeological Park, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1992. Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, said Sunday that tourism city Siem Reap Angkor has been suffering from flash floods in recent days as the Siem Reap River has been overflowing its banks. "Hundreds of families have been evacuating for higher grounds," he told Xinhua over phone. Mekong and flash floods have been hitting fifteen out of the kingdom's 24 cities and provinces in the last three weeks and killed at least 39 people, he said. Besides death toll, the floods have affected more than 130,000 families and forced over 10,000 families to flee homes for higher customize beats by dre grounds. In addition, some 160,200 hectares of rice paddy have been under water, said Keo Vy. The Philippine government ordered all the concerned state agencies down to local to be on alert and to implement proactive evacuations if needed as Typhoon Danas, named as "Ramil", moved near the Philippine Area of Responsibility Sunday afternoon. According to the state weather agency at 7:00 p.m., the eye of Typhoon Danas was located based on satellite and surface data at 1, 080 kilometers east northeast of Itbayat in northern province of Batanes. The weather disturbance has maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometer per hour (kph) near the center and gustiness of up to 160 kph. It cheap dr dre beats is forecast to move northwest at 26 kph. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Eduardo del Rosario said that the concerned agencies were advised to take appropriate actions. Myanmar's ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Saturday warned of grave danger and bad consequences if the 2008 constitution is abolished and redrawn. The country and the people will suffer the consequences arising from the move, said an announcement of the party's Constitution Amendment Committee. Myanmar's parliament set up a 109-member Constitution Review Joint Committee in July with the deputy speaker of the Union Parliament as chairman, and it is represented cheap beats by dr dre proportionally by parliament members of both Houses, political parties, military MPs and individuals. The committee on Tuesday invited advice and suggestions from a wide range of stakeholders for review or amendment of the 2008 State Constitution, announcing that advice will be sought from the legislative, administrative and judicial pillars through parliament and those from political parties, organizations and individuals through respective parliament representatives. The committee set the deadline for Nov. 15 for submission of such advice and assessment. Observers here noticed that there produced two different voices in the political circle involving ethnic parties on the constitution matter, with one side calling for amendment and the other side for total redrawing of the constitution. Meanwhile, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) also said in a announcement earlier that although the mulberry messenger bag party had met with counterparts from ethnic minorities and touched on the matter, it has not yet made a decision on the move which it said depends on people's desire. The NLD vowed to cooperate with the ethnic parties to obtain public opinions for the amendment or redrawing of the constitution, the announcement said, adding that the public opinions collected will be presented to parliament.

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total of 230 military personnel from both forces are expected to participate in the beats headphones cheap joint drills, which are being carried out at an SDF training field in the prefecture. The drills are officially planned as part of both countries' efforts to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases on Okinawa and its people, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency. The report cited Japanese defense officials as saying that one or two Osprey transport aircraft, part of the squadrons based in Japan, will be used during the program scheduled for Oct. 16, while the overall scope of the Shiga exercises was scaled down due to an approaching typhoon heading east from the seas off Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Prior to the military exercises, meanwhile, local papers said fake beats by dre more than 1,000 people assembled on Monday near the training field to protest against the joint drills in Shiga, which end on Oct. 18. They also came to express their strong concerns over safety issues related to the aircraft. Opposition to the deployment of the Osprey remains strong in Okinawa because of its safety record, which includes crashes overseas, including a fatal accident. Anticipating the discontent, the prefectural office had already urged both forces to keep the U.S. teams from flying over commercial and residential areas as well as the country's biggest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa, located in the center of the prefecture. In addition to the Shiga drill, they will carry out disaster relief training in Kochi Prefecture in late October, using the transport in a simulated scenario of a major quake with the epicenter in the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast. Stronger growth in developing countries is crucial to studio beats by dre cheap maintaining APEC growth, said Indonesia's Trade Minister here on Saturday, insisting that the solution to global growth woes lies in stronger cooperation. Indonesia's Minister of Trade and Co-Chair of the 25th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting Gita Wirjawan told media that participating leaders of the APEC members had strong emphasized the importance of promoting intra- regional growth and investment. "I think in the past few months we have seen concerns over the global economy, one is the tapering of U.S. funding which every economy is concerned with and APEC has taken the responsibility of addressing these concerns head on," he said. Prospects to invest in Indonesia remain good due to the country's continued economic growth and its capability in managing risks, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here Sunday. Despite the customize beats by dre current global financial market turbulence, Indonesia is upbeat on long-term investment boost in the country as the government's package of policy measures, including substantive structural reform, has helped stabilize its domestic market, Yudhoyono said in his keynote speech at the APEC CEO Summit. "We are confident in the long-term, prospects to invest and grow is enormous as Indonesia will remain a land of opportunity and growth," remarked the president. He added that Indonesia has become a trillion dollar economy with a large middle-class. To elaborate his view, the president cited predication of McKinsey which forecast that Indonesia's business opportunity will increase to up custom beats by dre to 1.8 trillion U.S dollars in 2030. According to the president, the 2013 APEC host, as the largest economy in Southeast Asia and one of the emerging market economies of the world, has made steady progress in conducting major bureaucratic reforms and strengthening government institutions. "We will continue to create a better business and investment environment and address many of the challenges," Yudhoyono pledged. APEC 2013 is viewed by Indonesia as an ideal opportunity to utilize regional economic cooperation to advance its interest in developing economy, promoting job creation and increasing investment and export. APEC economies account for 54 percent of global gross domestic product and 44 percent of global trade. Trade in the region has grown nearly seven-fold since 1989, reaching over 11 trillion U.S. dollars in 2011. Wirjawan insisted that there is need for developing countries to remain robust because it cheap beats by dre would counter lackluster performance in developed countries. "The importance of APEC members sticking together was the basic message being conveyed to each other. De-acceleration of growth is inevitable and as such we have to promote intra-investment more," he added. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa also disclosed that the same topic was discussed at the APEC Foreign Ministers' Meeting, where delegates acknowledged that beyond regional security there were new challenges to growth. "It's not just traditional security issues but also climate change, food and energy security, promotion of integration. So when you talk of challenges there are many elements that mulberry messenger bag contribute to economic growth. We must ensure that these qualities are locked in." The discussion by the U.S. Federal Reserve about the possibility of reducing the pace of its asset purchase program occurred at a time of weaker-than-expected economic activity in some emerging and developing APEC economies. 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The 21st informal economic leaders' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic mulberry alexa bag Cooperation (APEC) released on Tuesday a statement, supporting a multilateral trading system and the 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). "We reaffirm our commitment to the strengthening of the multilateral trading system and to the successful outcomes of the 9th Ministerial Conference (MC9) of the WTO in Bali," said the statement. The leaders recognized the importance of a strong multilateral trading system in safeguarding trade expansion that serves as a source of economic cheap beats by dre growth, job creation, and sustainable development, it said. "We remain committed in this regard to continuing to strengthen the rules-based, transparent, non-discriminatory, open, and inclusive multilateral trading system as enshrined in the principles and values of the WTO," it added. Noting that "We are committed to fighting against protectionist measures for their impact on weakening trade and slowing down the global economic recovery," the leaders decided to extend the standstill commitment until the end of 2016 and reaffirm the commitment to rolling back protectionist and trade-distorting measures, according to the statement. The leaders stressed the importance of further curbing protectionism through the WTO and other international organizations. cheap dr dre beats Recognizing that Doha is at an impasse, the leaders said "We are now at the eleventh hour to put the negotiating function of the WTO back on track. Thus, the next step we take will be critical to the multilateral trading system and the role of the WTO." The leaders acknowledged the urgency to achieve successful outcomes at the MC9, to be held in Bali in December, and make the meeting a "stepping stone" to future progress in the Doha Round trade negotiations, and further multilateral trade liberalization, said the statement. "We will continue to respect the Doha mandate and its development dimension," it said. The leaders pledged to push forward negotiations on trade facilitation, some customize beats by dre elements of agriculture, and development, while acknowledging that progress in the negotiations of these issues are "of utmost importance." They also vowed to instruct negotiators to "re-double their efforts" to complete negotiations on this package before the commencement of the MC9, said the statement. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit here on Monday. Yudhoyono welcomed Putin to the APEC summit, saying that relations between the two countries have continued to develop. "Our meeting this time is aimed at enhancing the cooperation," he said. Sharing Yudhoyono's views, Putin said bilateral relations beats by dre wireless between the two countries appeared strong. Putin arrived in Bali on Monday afternoon and immediately proceeded to the APEC summit venue. "There are bright prospects in the relations in various fields, including transportation development, industry, and others," he said. Russia played host to 2012 APEC summit in its far eastern city of Vladivostok. The summit, with integrate to grow, innovate to prosper as its theme, strived to promote the prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and ensure its leading position in global economic growth. Since its inception in 1989, APEC has helped to reduce barriers and promote integration in the region. Its 21 member economies are home to more than 2.7 billion people and represent about 53 percent of cheap solo beats by dre the world's real GDP and 44 percent of its trade. The leaders strongly encourage all WTO members, particularly major players, to show their political will and necessary flexibilities in order to bridge existing gaps and deliver positive and balanced results at the MC9. With the APEC economies representing more than half of the world's GDP and 44 percent of global trade, the leaders stand ready to make significant contribution in ensuring tangible outcomes by delivering an early harvest at the MC9, it said. The leaders encourage a swift conclusion of negotiations to expand product coverage of the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA) before the MC9, and also seek expanded membership of the ITA, said the document. The leaders also reasserted their commitment to promoting green growth and seeking practical, development-supportive, and trade-enhancing solutions to address global environmental challenges. They reaffirm the importance of the effective integration of developing economies into the multilateral trading system and to cheap beats by dr dre equally benefit from global trade, according to the document.

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The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum was urged to reinforce its members' financial mulberry messenger bag markets to contribute to the inclusive growth of the Asia-Pacific region at their gathering in Indonesia's resort island of Bali, said a report of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) released here Monday. Against the backdrop of uncertain economic recovery, much remains to be done for APEC to underpin the resilience and openness of their economies that have been affected by the slowdown in global demand, the report noted. Created to build a region of mulberry alexa bag common and sustained prosperity in 1989, APEC has grown into an organization, accounting for around 54 percent of world GDP and 48 percent of global trade. "We believe that APEC should develop a more ambitious agenda on trade, investment and services and continue to strengthen our financial markets to build foundations for more resilient and inclusive growth," the report said. It also appealed for major infrastructure investment across APEC to sustain growth and open new opportunities to integrate APEC economies into regional and global markets. Since more liquid, integrated and stable financial market is required to bolster economic growth in the Pacific Rim region, ABAC reiterated its call on APEC economies to endorse the launch of the Asia-Pacific Financial Forum (APFF), a regional platform for enhanced collaboration among regulators, officials, financial industry and multilateral, standard-setting and capacity building bodies. cheap dre beats The latest data released by independent Philippine Social Weather Station (SWS) showed that around 26.1 percent of Filipinos were unemployed by the end of June. Official said Tuesday that concerned agencies should review their job measures and try to create more jobs. The survey, which covered 1,200 respondents nationwide from June 28 to 30, identified jobless as adults in the labor force or those aged 18 and above who are without a job at present and looking for a job. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will Wednesday leave for Brunei Darussalam on a two-nation visit during which he will attend the India-ASEAN Summit in Brunei and sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in cheap beats by dre services with ASEAN countries, said officials here Tuesday. New Zealand and Timor Leste are to co-host a two-day meeting at the United Nations this week to study the lessons learned from the withdrawal of UN Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) peacekeepers. New Zealand Police Minister Anne Tolley said in a statement Tuesday that the meeting in New York would involve a range of UN member states. "We've been pleased at the smooth transition since the withdrawal of UNMIT at the end of 2012, and believe the time is right to consider some of the initial lessons learned from this process," said Tolley, who will deliver a keynote address at the meeting. "New Zealand continues to support the cheap beats by dr dre security and justice sector in Timor Leste through a four year-long community policing project led by NZ Police." New Zealand had provided 89 million NZ dollars (73.79 million U. S. dollars) in development assistance to Timor Leste since 1999, including support with policing, justice, education and Customs. The meeting would also be attended by representatives from Timor Leste including Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, Finance Minister Emilia Pires, and former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta. New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) personnel and police have been deployed in Timor Leste since 1999. Following the withdrawal of UNMIT in December 2012 and the withdrawal of the International Stabilization Force in March 2013, just beats headphones cheap five NZDF personnel and two New Zealand Police officers have been based in Timor Leste, as well as New Zealand-based Police mentors who visit Timor Leste several times a year. The anchor points of India-ASEAN relations are economic growth and prosperity, capacity building and strategic issues and India aims to expand its trade ties with ASEAN countries through a FTA in services, said the officials. India has been implementing its "Look East Policy" which stresses economic and trade ties with ASEAN countries, the fourth largest trading partner of India with a total bilateral trade volume of some 70 billion U.S. dollars. With the signing of an FTA in services, India expects to increase cheap solo beats by dre its trade with the 10-member economic bloc to 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2015. After visiting Brunei, Singh will also pay an official visit to Indonesia. The result of the survey, which was released Monday, showed that the unemployment rate in June was a little higher than the 25. 4 percent based on similar survey in March. However, it is much higher than the official unemployment rate of 7.3 percent in July. The survey also showed an increase in the number of men who became jobless or 19.2 percent in June, up from 17.3 percent in March, while it hardly changed in the number of women who were jobless at 35.8 percent from 35.4 percent. Philippines' Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte responded to the latest survey, saying that concerned agencies like the Department of Labor and Employment and the National Economic and Development Authority would look at fake beats by dre the survey results and compare it with the unemployment data of the government. The council also encouraged APEC leaders to spearhead in " ensuring their economies remain open to cross-border investment and promote broad understanding of the benefits of foreign direct investment as a driver of sustainable growth and employment." ABAC was created by the APEC Economic Leaders in November 1995 to provide advice on the implementation of the Osaka Action Agenda and on other specific business sector priorities. It comprises of up to three members of the private sector from each member economy. The Fourth ABAC meeting was held in Bali from Oct. 2 to 5, 2013.