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Ultimately, China seems to want to stop the American fleet from being able to secure its interests in the western Pacific.

Cathay Pacific said the incident occurred earlier this month, and the video appeared to have been loaded onto YouTube late last week.

Asia-Pacific saw the greatest proportion of CEOs who were forced out, with 45 per cent of departing chiefs not wanting to leave.

Japan is situated along the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, at the point where the Pacific and Eurasian tectonic plates collide.

But Europe is no longer the front line and America's focus is shifting to the Pacific.

Its coastal location and Puget Sound harbors give it a leading role in trade with Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Rim.

Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake had prompted a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific coast.

It was quite calm--one of those still, hot days so common in the Pacific, when all nature seems to have gone to sleep.

But, look across the Pacific at one of our biggest trading partners, and you can see, the rebalancing is causing quite a bit of pain.

Robert Willard, commander of US forces in the Pacific, recently said the ship would be watched closely by China's neighbours.

The Midwest round the Great Lakes, the Middle Atlantic state, the south, and the Pacific Coast are the major industrial regions of the U. S.

Over the next five years the company will be investing $4 billion in the Asia Pacific region, with India and China absorbing most of that.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.

Snickers , the cocker spaniel is on his way to a new home after being abandoned on a remote Pacific island for four months.

Take a geek cruise to kill kobolds in the Caribbean, or to talk Macs over Merlot as I cruise up the Pacific coast.

The breadth of the Pacific would seem to be sufficient protection from detectable health effects.

That said, the Asia-Pacific is still faced with many threats and challenges, making the road to development for all a long uphill one.

The president said the U. S. as a Pacific nation has an enormous stake in the ASEAN region.

It seems to be a popular club now; any country with even a remote interest in the Asia-Pacific region wants to join, or at least sit in.

Clinton's visit to Malaysia is part of her 13-day trip to meet with leaders of at least eight East Asian and Pacific nations.

'We are at the crossroads between the two giants. You've got to pass Singapore to go from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific, ' he said.

Whenever I felt sad, I used to stare at a photograph of him taken on the Pacific island of Palau, where he had once traveled to buy lumber.

Traveling between Hawaii and California, Moore is said to be the first to document what became known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Strengthening ties and partnerships with the Asia-Pacific region has been a priority for the Obama administration from its outset.

There was a bit of turbulence while we were over the Pacific Ocean but it wasn't too bad.

But what he probably meant was that this should not be an American Pacific Century, nor a Chinese one.

If you look at how El Nino affects all the nations around the Pacific Rim, Australia is often thought of prominently in that regard.

From Europe to the Pacific, we have been a nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law.

And a week after that there is the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation, APEC, A Perfect Excuse to Chat.

British explorer Captain James Cook made the first mention of surfing in print in his account of his journey through the Pacific Ocean.

There's been a strong earthquake measuring 7. 6 near the west Pacific nation of Vanuatu. There are no reports of damage or injury so far.

The next pipe diameter is at least the Pacific, is the Yangtze River in the Yellow River.

She was last heard from on July 2, 1937, on the Pacific leg of her attempt to be the first woman to fly around the globe.

It is all held on one place by swirling underwater currents and is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or "trash vortex" .

as a pacific nation , we benefit , as you do , from trade across the ocean and from the growing vitality of this region.

A year later he was the first person to fly over the Atlantic in a hot air balloon. He ballooned across the Pacific in 1991.

It could take up to two years before leases are awarded for areas off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, all on the Pacific coast, are more open economies trying to forge closer ties.

If I were to unload all the water from the Pacific Ocean, and still could not safe the love of fire that I have for you.

He said the Asia-Pacific region will be crucial for creating jobs in the US and shaping its security and prosperity.

Stray mines began to turn up off the Pacific coast, imperiling commercial shipping.

Since 2003, he has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific.

"It would be especially pernicious if opposing blocs were to form on each side of the Pacific, " he said in a recent article.

It's not long before for me to join Pacific Translation Company, more or less two or three months ago.

Speaking at Citic Pacific's results briefing last month, Mr Yung said he did not intend to resign.

About two hours and 80 miles out from Blenheim, the train began to run alongside the blue of the Pacific.

'The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay, ' he said in a Thursday speech to the Australian Parliament.

'Security and prosperity of our two great nations depends on the security and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region, ' he said.

The author had confused the name of the Pacific port the ship had left with a city of the same name on the Atlantic coast.

The Pentagon said the theme of this year's conference is "multilateral approaches to maritime security in the Asia-Pacific. "

GM's Asia Pacific operations must be financially self-sufficient but would suffer little other fallout from US financial woes, he said.

AXA Asia Pacific Chairman Rick Allert said the proposal "significantly undervalued" the company.

Cosco Pacific failed to persuade the Greek government to award it a build-operate-transfer contract under a bilateral arrangement.

the U. S. might eventually prefer to see APEC become a mechanism to bind Pacific Rim nations into a NAFTA-style trade family.

Washington's strategy is to try to slip back stealthily into the heart of Asia Pacific without ruffling Chinese feathers.

Golden cowrie shells have been used as currency and religious symbols throughout the South Pacific.

But across the Pacific, it's as if the global economic forces that have pummeled Detroit never struck.

After graduation, because remembering his mother, the Son returned home across the Pacific.

Argentine scientists have discovered the remains of a fierce sea monster that terrorized Pacific waters in the age of the dinosaurs.

The total value works out to US$234 a subscriber, which he said is the lowest figure in the Asian-Pacific region.

Third, throws in Pacific Ocean spatially models the glass jar, how much time within do 10 years float in the water surface?

In what is now known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic outweighs plankton, by a factor of six to one.

Let there be no doubt: in the Asia-Pacific in the 21st century, the United States of America is all in.

The general attitude towards the Pacific War is one of the best illustrations of Japanese "victim consciousness. "

Mr Lee estimated that the total size of the distressed market in Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, was as high as $100bn.

The hydraulic lift raises a great white shark, which had been caught with tuna bait, out of the Pacific Ocean off Mexico in 2008.

The so-called Walker Circulation is completed as trade winds at the surface drive westwards across the pacific.

Obama said the United States to see the world economic situation changes, the Asia-Pacific region bears great potential for development.

He would like to see others from outside Europe, such as Asian and Pacific Rim countries, signing up to the accord.

But the business is now better focused and it has a strong presence in the US as well as the Asia-Pacific region.

By the mid-19th century, it had pushed Britain out of the Pacific Northwest and consolidated its hegemony over the Western Hemisphere.

Citic Pacific did not say which of its directors had been questioned by police.

D. from the Pacific Western University. But Fang investigated further and noted that school was an unaccredited institution that the U.

'They understand and accept that we are a Pacific power and are going to be involved, ' he said.

Maybe it was the day of infamy that awakened a nation to a storm in the Pacific and a madman's death march across Europe.

In his speech, Wu said that the Asia and Pacific Region is at a very important place in the world.

The researchers said the key to the mystery lies in their discovery of a road on the tiny Pacific island.

He made his first jump as a Navy pilot when his plane was shot down over the Pacific during World War II.

Today, Hawaii, whose capital is Honolulu, is often called the "Crossroads of the Pacific" and is a popular vacation spot.

"If you're interested in food safety and you want answers quickly, " says Hugh Martin, Pacific's CEO, "this technology is going to be key. "

The only force able to interfere with a Japanese drive into the East Indies? The U. S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

The town of Cheyenne, located along the Union Pacific Railroad in the heart of ranch land, was trying to attract business and people.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest.

Assertive Chinese and job-hungry Americans are gearing up for a trade war across the Pacific. Fortunately, cooler heads will likely prevail.

This is only the beginning of calamities. As nations located along the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Rim, we need to think deep.

ON A humid stretch of Pacific coast in one of the poorest parts of the Americas, somebody seems to have misplaced a chunk of Manhattan.

The California plants are the only nuclear facilities along the U. S. Pacific Coast.

There was traffic roaring in the background. He was sitting, he said, on a dune overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.

China is ready to participate in discussions on strengthening financial cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Taiwan is but one of many places situated along the "Ring of Fire" encircling nearly half the globe around the Pacific Ocean.

China is ready to participate in discussions on strengthening financial cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Taiwan is but one of many places situated along the "Ring of Fire" encircling nearly half the globe around the Pacific Ocean.

Pacific Western University was also the name of a once affiliated, now defunct, university in Hawaii (Pacific Western University (Hawaii)).

We stand ready to work with the United States and other countries in the region to promote a peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific.

The President is on his way home to Washington via Hawaii. He and the First Lady had dinner with the head of US Pacific Command last night.

Therefore, he said, the power that rules the Pacific will be the power that rules the world.

Japan, he said, should be seen in the context not of east Asia but of the much greater number of nations bordering the Pacific.

But this was a blooper: it would be a bit like giving America bad news about its security in the Pacific region on December 7th.

It was, as the authors explain, a "mercantilist world where unilateral free trade and a pacific stance were not viable options" .

Nations affected by the Pacific "Rim of Fire" have all sounded alerts, trying to estimate the anticipated time of arrival of any tsunami.

He said though the two countries are thousands of miles apart, the vast Pacific Ocean can't separate the friendship between both peoples.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that Australia must be prepared to respond to an emerging arms race across the Asia-Pacific region.

Adrian Pang, Asia Pacific managing director for DoveBid, said auction volumes are roughly two-and-a-half times greater now than a year ago.

The United States has an air base at Manta, on Ecuador's Pacific coast, from where it runs drug surveillance flights.

You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory.

The splendors of the depths are known to a fortunate few, like this biologist tagging a giant Pacific octopus in Washington's Puget Sound.

He began his career at the company as area sales manager for Russia, China and Asia-Pacific regions.

In fact, in that part of the Pacific, out of the course of vessels, it was to be feared that no help would ever come to them.

Players and coaches also seem likely to be crossing back and forth across the Pacific, though Silver was vague about exact plans.

The SECDEF's assumption seems to be US air and naval forces still maintain a comfortable lead in the Pacific.

the Pacific coast of the United States, swheresthe state of Washington is located, the so-called "Orient" is to the west , not the east .

If this feels like salt on the wounds for the folks at Citic Pacific, at least they aren't alone on the losing end of things.

Asia-Pacific's strong showing was one of the clearest themes of the Pisa survey.

When he moved out to California he found out there was a bigger river than the Floyd River. It was called the Pacific Ocean.

And the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations that you just referred to are a good example.

Prior to this appointment, Kockan was the general manager of ParkRoyal on Beach Road in Singapore, another Pan Pacific Hotel Group property.

hill said a coalition of willing partners across the asia - pacific region would be the best way to police the u . n . resolution.

El Ni? o is when some of the Pacific Ocean's waters become warmer than normal, affecting the wind currents.

something unusual drifted across the Pacific and washed up in Washington State.

One particular goal was to persuade other Asia-Pacific leaders to take a resolute line over North Korea's recent test of a nuclear bomb .

So the satellite in question is in the dark, over the Pacific or hours behind Greenwich in time zones.

Ms. Rong is a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the American Bar Association and of American Chamber of Commerce in Guangdong.

In the teeming sea-level cloud forest of the North Pacific coast every niche seems to support life [including this skunk cabbage].

This week, we seem to have been thinking almost exclusively about the Pacific.

How they got into the ocean is unclear but all these items wound up in what researchers are calling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. . .

Seattle was the point of departure for many soldiers in the Pacific, a number of which were quartered at Golden Gardens Park.

the King of England made him the captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific.

At least meteorologists say that the Pacific has begun to cool.

Construction of these, in what is now a marshy lagoon on the Pacific side, should start in a few months.

The second thing to understand is that the functional substitute for a NATO of the Pacific already exists, and is indeed up and running.

Samson So WWF Cathay Pacific Environmental Manager Linden Coppell says: Cathay Pacific is pleased to be able to kick-start the fund for WWF.

A strong Pacific storm system moved through parts of the Far West over the holiday weekend.

James Gwertzman, PopCap's vice president for Asia Pacific, said the game has spread through 'distribution of pirated copies. '

If agreed, it would be one of the largest transactions in the Asia-Pacific financial services sector in recent years.

We believe that this was caused by the NW - trending subduction of the paleo- Pacific plate.

If I took a flashlight to a primitive pacific island, I'm flashing my flashlight around all the natives on the island.

A concept of a Pacific community could become an organizing principle of the 21st century to avoid the formation of blocs.

"Gorgon will supply cleaner burning natural gas for the growing Asia Pacific and Australian markets, " he said.

The small island nation of Niue in the South Pacific has no clay targets ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Then the Dreamtime of Divine Union connects to the heart dreamtime that lies over the Hawaiian Islands and Pacific Ocean.

The large number of volcanoes around the Pacific plate has earned the name "Ring of Fire. "

"If you do not hold your ground in the Pacific" , he told the Americans, "you cannot be a world leader. "

The documentary appears to have had an impact in Taiji, a picturesque town on Japan's Pacific coast.

A project initiated by China aims to help countries around the western Pacific rim improve their climate predictions.

"They are expending enormous amounts of money; they have a huge diplomatic presence across the Pacific, " she said.

These narrow goals would hardly seem to merit flying more than a dozen U. S. cabinet members and agency heads crossing the Pacific.

The immigrants who had been coming across the Pacific from China since the mid-nineteenth century presented a new problem.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , UBS AG and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets are the only foreign firms that have underwritten local share sales.

Researchers in Hawaii carry out a similar program in the Pacific, but they've taken fewer samples over a smaller amount of time.

IF YOU think euro-zone governments are a mess, then Pacific states make them look like models of stability.

The company already provides flight training to the Navy's Pacific Fleet through a separate, five-year contract.

What's more, the Japanese themselves had already decided to move south into the Pacific rather than north into Siberia.

"It's sad to see him go. He was a model employee, " said Damian Chunilal, head of Pacific Rim investment banking.

"Yeah, you know, we're really big on Pacific Division titles around here, " Bryant said sarcastically.

This week in Beijing, Mrs. Clinton included Admiral Robert Willard, the head of the Pentagon's Pacific Command, in her delegation.

The stock market goes up and down like the roller coaster on the beach just up the Pacific from where I am now.

Vacationers to the Southwest can count on sunny days without end and a Pacific Ocean that's finally warm enough to swim in.

The ship which departed from port was out of sight in the Pacific after a while .

Now its ascendancy is about to set off what many officials and experts see as a backlash on both sides of the Pacific.

Hosting an Asia-Pacific trade summit in Hawaii a few days earlier, Mr Obama laid out the case for open, liberal trade in Asia.

You are about to see events unfolding from the pacific ocean as we said previously and from there, the cascading of geological events.

In the early history of the United States, the Rockies were an almost impassable barrier for settlers going to the Pacific Coast.

Cathay Pacific's move to revamp its products and services comes as it continues to boost capacity amid a strong rebound in passenger demand.

Hill for control of the Northern Pacific led to one of Wall Street's most serious financial crises. The railway trust he formed with J.

AIG said Saturday it had agreed to sell a major asset-management unit to Mr. Li's private investment vehicle, Pacific Century Group. Mr.

South Pacific war shows that the Jap is no superman and can be beaten. Osami Nagano can be beaten, but not without one hell of a scrap.

John McCormick, RBS Asia-Pacific chairman, said the deal would let it "participate fully in the opening up of China's securities market" .

Lately, Chan has settled into a more modest double life: making broad action comedies on both sides of the Pacific.

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.

Even Australia, one of Asia-Pacific's wealthiest in terms of resources, depends on Middle East oil.

Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific.

Rejecting this deal could start a cycle of antitrade measures across the Pacific that would be difficult to stop.

The military said the target missile was shot down Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean.

From there it passed to southern Japan and across the Pacific Ocean, where it would reach its maximum length of six minutes and 29 seconds.

The man who said he would be the first "Pacific president" has been no such thing.

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

APEC is scheduled to be in the Asia-Pacific to achieve the objectives of trade liberalization, the ASEAN Community would be built.

As I write this, I'm sitting on my balcony with my laptop, watching (no kidding) dolphins jumping out in the Pacific.

On the spur of the moment it reminded him of a gale he had once experienced in the North Pacific.

The decision has strained at a relationship between the Pacific neighbours that has been difficult at the best of times.

They were raised in an era of Internet heroes. They want the latest scoop from that magical Silicon Valley across the Pacific Ocean.

They see a time when summer is in southern California, the Pacific coast not too far away from the place.

Mongolia is located between the two powers China and Russia is the major country in the Asia-Pacific, one of the focal point of the region.

Is known as township of the white clouds fine reputation, looks like a small boat to float on southwest pacific.

UPS was also authorised to connect service in these five states with existing service on the Pacific Coast and with all states to the east.

It used to seem very far away when I was a small girl traveling with my parents by steamship across the Pacific Ocean long ago.

The concept of Community Learning Center (CLC) has been spread out in the Asia and the Pacific Region.

I'm wondering how such a change in the balance of power would effect our relations with and control of US territories in the Asia Pacific.

The area known as the Golden Gate is the channel formed where the mouth of the San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean.

Mr Shan has a strong record on deals in China, structured to give Pacific Alliance control in many cases, one of his trademarks at TPG.

The commercial flow of these transactions will be managed by the Nissan Asia Pacific regional office in Singapore.

Elsewhere in the Pacific, Singapore reported its first case of H1N1, a woman who had just returned from a visit to the United States.

Back home, the opportunity is quite good, and I probably could go back to the Asia-Pacific region and see what's going on over there.

But a partial eclipse phase could be enjoyed over a broader region, including many southern Pacific islands and wide swath of South America.

Though based in London, Standard Chartered makes about 70% of its profits in the Asian-Pacific region.

Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands, part of a great chain of islands which stretch across the Pacific.

One of the potential challenges the industry appears to be responding to positively in Asia Pacific is capacity.

The Pacific nation has no clay targets and no shooting ranges, and there are even difficulties getting ammunition and guns.

Denny Roy, a US-based expert on Asia-Pacific security, told Reuters the confrontation did not appear accidental.

I live across the Pacific, in San Francisco, but I spend much of my time travelling the globe.

J. Crew is part-owned by Texas Pacific, a private-equity firm and one of the potential buyers if Gap were put up for sale.

Travelzoo is inviting parties that may be interested in bidding for its Asia Pacific division to contact the company.

"If anything, " he said, "we're going to strengthen our presence in the Pacific. " This week, Mr.

Laid down across the Pacific to connect the U. S. with Aisa and Europe, the pipeline adds speed and quality to audio and video transmission.

Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.

Less clear is whether it will want to challenge the United States at some point for maritime primacy in and around the Pacific.

We are a dynamic, innovative, and multi-cultural Asia Pacific nation with a real love of the environment and the outdoors.

Scientists around the world have been studying the warning of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as EI Nino.

Enterprise left an indelible mark on the course of the Pacific War, and on the hearts of the men who served in her.

Of course there was an intention in building so many nuclear plants on volcanic underground, in the pacific ring of fire.

The name of the park means "to view from the beach" and is a testament to it's location near the Pacific Ocean.

National forests are areas like the great redwood forests of the Pacific Northwest.

The capital raisings are among the largest in Asia- Pacific since regional stock markets bounced back to life in March.

Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the image, and dawn is rising over the Pacific Ocean.

Will China be able to keep bouncing back, or might the recessionary winds from across the Pacific cool things down?

President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president. "

Now December 7 is dawning bright and blue over America's Pacific coast, and with it breaks the news that startles an industry.

The acquisition of the Philippines gave the United States a strong presence in the Pacific.

This unique tree , among the tallest in the world, is native to a limited area along the Pacific Coast of Northern California .

UP IN ARMS: Farmers protested against Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Tokyo Wednesday.

Asia Society, headquartered in New York, is one of the non-governmental organizations with influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

But at any rate, if we have no enemies in the interior, they may come from the exterior, for parts of the Pacific are very dangerous.

In a world increasingly shaped by Asia, its location between the Pacific and Indian oceans may be the best on the planet.

As a Pacific nation, America is drawn by trade and values and history to be a part of the future of this region.

The company exports 80% of its products to more than 30 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa as well as South America.

We'd cancelled a few times earlier in the week, so we were pretty excited, because the weather was clear all over the Pacific Ocean.

Is the U. S. about to set a precedent that could alter the way its navy operates in the far western Pacific?

among the world's most versatile wines, pairs well with a classic BLT as with wild Pacific King salmon on a bed of roasted winter squash.

The flotation of state-owned China Pacific would be the latest in a number of listings of mainland financial services companies.

It was an intraplate earthquake that occurred along the Pacific coast of Chile in South America in 1960.

Most occur along the "Ring of Fire" , a belt of seismic and volcanic activity around the Pacific rim that includes California and Japan.

The Asia-Pacific region also has a good chance of reaching the MDG target if it can accelerate progress slightly over the next few years.

Breadfruit has long been a staple in Pacific islands, from where it spread to the Caribbean and Africa.

Looking out over the Pacific, he would point to a cloud on the horizon and tell us it was Japan.

Bottle - a 1915 and in Panama on the Pacific Expo was the only gold medal Chinese porcelain bottle of the celestial sphere the same size.

The central north Pacific, which includes Hawaii, experienced several tropical cyclones after years of relative calm.

East is close to the Pacific Ocean. west meets the Baltic Sea Gulf of Finland. north is near Arctic Ocean. stretches across the Eurasia.

Oh, and a giant slide that led into a pool of steam-heated seawater piped in from the Pacific.

Much of the Pacific coast, where farmers export asparagus, grapes and a plateful of other products, enjoys full employment.

Across the Pacific, waste traders in the United States are shutting mills, cutting production and selling their stock at fire-sale prices.

The natural reservoir of the Ebola virus seems to reside in the rain forests of the African continent and in areas of the Western Pacific.

Pacific Air Forces hosts its own Red Flag exercises here three times a year.

This is not the dream of paradise, here is the South Pacific well-known tourist, was referred to as the "gift of God" and Tahiti.

The head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Robert Willard, said this was a "positive" development.

By virtue of our unique geography, the United States is both an Atlantic and a Pacific power.

If the customer chooses to put the data in the Asia Pacific area, it's going to stay in the Asia Pacific area.

The long prevailing China-oriented costume has pervaded every industry, even flying over the east coast of Pacific Ocean.

Study leader Keith Aubry can monitor the signals from his desk at the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia.

Even the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, which plunges 11 km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Guam, is inhabited.

As if the picture wasn't stunning enough, it also features Mars glowing fiercely against the rich blue of the Pacific night sky.