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The APEC South Korea 2025 will be the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum of its leaders that will be held in November 2025. [1] It was the second time South Korea has hosted the summit, having previously hosted in 2005 .
The World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (commonly known as the ITS World Congress) [1] is an annual conference and trade show to promote ITS technologies. ERTICO (ITS Europe), ITS America, ITS AsiaPacific and ITS Japan are its sponsors. Each year the event takes place in a different region (Europe, Americas or Asia-Pacific).
7 – 14 February – 2025 Asian Winter Games in China [4] 3 – 20 April – 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia [3] 12 May – 2025 Philippine general election; April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. [5] 13 – 20 July – 2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup in China [6] [7] 5 – 17 August – 2025 FIBA Asia Cup in Saudi Arabia [8]
The Asia-Pacific region experienced 140 major natural disasters that killed 7,300 people and affected 62 million in 2022 alone, the ESCAP report said. Losses amounted to $57.3 billion.
APEC Peru 2024 was the first APEC meeting for New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who assumed the premiership on 27 November 2023; Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who assumed the premiership on 15 May 2024; Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who assumed the premiership on 16 August; and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who assumed the premiership on 1 ...
ABC news report of the first APEC meeting in Canberra, November 1989, featuring delegates watching the Melbourne Cup. The initial inspiration for APEC came when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s series of post-ministerial conferences, launched in the mid-1980s, had demonstrated the feasibility and value of regular conferences among ministerial-level representatives of both ...
The phrase “burn pit” refers to an area of a military base devoted to open-air burning of waste, often using jet fuel as an accelerant. The U.S. military used these open-air fire pits to ...
The Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management [1] (A-PAD) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Japan. Its mission is to "facilitate collaboration amongst the member countries for the purpose of delivering effective and efficient disaster assistance through disaster preparedness , risk reduction, relief and recovery."