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ASIA-PACIFIC Economic Cooperation (APEC) members yesterday adopted a three-pronged structural reform agenda aimed at removing barriers to doing business and translate to more inclusive growth across economies.

PRESIDENT Aquino returned to Manila on Sunday night after what he described as a “short but significant and fruitful visit” to Vladivostok, Russia, where he attended the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders’ Meeting and presented to 20 other leaders what he called the “new face of the Philippines.”

2015 APEC meet in Ph VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — The 20th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting ended on Sunday with the formal announcement that the Philippines will host the APEC Summit in 2015. The Philippines will host the summit after Indonesia and China.

President Hu said the underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over. Chinese President Hu Jintao has promised to maintain economic growth to support a global recovery, at the start of an Asia-Pacific summit in the Russian port city of Vladivostok.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN — A little-known trade pact promoted by US President Barack Obama has emerged as a key vehicle towards ambitions of creating a free trade treaty embracing more than half the world’s economy.

Urgent appeal for presidential decision My last column requested that the President immediately appoint the new members of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). Further, I strongly recommend that Doris Magsaysay-Ho be reinstated as one of the three ABAC members. She provides continuity and is responsible for making labor mobility a focus item. ABAC meets…

President Aquino will be attending his first full summit where he will sit together with the 20 other leaders simultaneously in an informal face-to-face setting. He would have by then one summit under his belt assuming all goes well and he attends the cozy atmosphere of the 17th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi after having skipped…

When the 21 leaders of APEC economies – including President Barack Obama, President Hu Jin-Tao, and our own President Aquino – meet next month in Yokohama, it will be the 18th time that APEC heads will do so. I have been privileged to attend all the APEC Summits beginning with the first one in Blake…