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[Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Financial issues are a natural fit for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group, or APEC, which includes the United States, China, Japan and Russia, among others. Its annual summits traditionally focus on nuts-and-bolts issues such as spreading free trade and bolstering regional networking.

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[Kentucky.com: Business] Kentucky.com Business - Wire: Top on the list, of course, was the credit crunch on Wall Street that has sent global markets plummeting. Many of the APEC leaders attended a summit in Washington last week at which 21 major economies pledged tighter cooperation to battle the financial meltdown.

[Capital Press: Farm, ranch, dairy and agriculture news updates affecting growers, livestock producers and agribusiness in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington] What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC: LIMA, Peru (AP) - Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms exact a widening human and financial toll.

[Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Diet session to be extended Ӽ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion: The government and the ruling camp decided Tuesday to seek an extension of the current Diet session beyond its scheduled end on Nov 30 in order to pass a refueling bill and a bill to bolster the banking sector.

[Medical News] World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick's remarks ...: The New Multilateralism also needs mechanisms to move much more quickly to help those who are most vulnerable in crisis. Right after suggesting the idea at our Spring Meetings, as the food crisis hit hard, the World Bank created a new $1.2 billion rapid financing facility for those endangered by high food prices - to fund nutrition, school feeding, seeds and fertilizers, and other safety nets.

[CFR.org - US Strategy and Politics] Panacea or Pipe Dream? Energy Policy and the Search for ...: This report argues that the United States must lead with domestic action on climate change and proposes a U.S. negotiating strategy for a global UN climate agreement that includes commitments from all major economies, while also promoting a less formal Partnership for Climate Cooperation that would focus the world's largest emitters on implementing aggressive emissions reductions.

[East Asia Forum] Australia and India « East Asia Forum: An Asian regionalism and Asia Pacific Community that foster a regional economy that is internally integrated, closely connected with North America, Europe and other international markets, and assumes a responsibility and influence in global economic arrangements more commensurate with its new economic weight will bolster both Asian and global welfare and lessen the attendant political risks to global trade and economic transformation.

[Silobreaker Feed] Silobreaker: Bush invites G20 for crisis summit on November 15: President George W Bush will host the world's first global financial summit in the US on 15 November, a White House official has said.The meeting - the first in .- [

[Nicholas D. Kristof] On the Ground: Kurt Campbell in Australia - Nicholas D. Kristof ...: While the agenda in Australia also called for a meeting with 21 Asian leaders to discuss weighty policy matters like global climate change and to listen attentively while others opined — just the kind of venue the President dislikes and performs so poorly in —

[Andrew Bolt] Breaking the ice | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog: Last year Lehman Brothers released a long and highly publicized report about climate change in which they preached about decarbonization, trying to make their investors keep getting high profits from the Kyoto carbon trade scheme and the support of huge public subventions. All that, of course, with the applause of the usual choir of politicians, the entire media and the Greens.

[News Blog] The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog: It's the basics that will get votes and all howard can say is look what i've done over the past decade - yes mr howard look what you've done and look at the resulting mess!Accussing labor of being all about unions is a tired old line that nobody believes!Labor cares about the average aussie/aussie family not those who are mega rich and lets not forget where howard and the libs get financial backing from - various wierdo religious cults.Howard keeps on about what he's achieved so far,well he's had a decade to fix our hospital system which is 3rd world standard,under howard the rich have gotten richer and your average aussie battler makes no headway,people are tired of struggling causing them to lose thier homes etc and do we really want costello as our leader in 18 months time??No! We don't want howard or costello now or in the future - show them the door and make sure it hits them on the arse on the way out of govenment!

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