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The tournament began in 2012 as the ASEAN Quizzing Championships, an annual quiz competition held among quizzers from ASEAN, primarily those living in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. In 2015 the competition expanded to include participants from India and a number of off-site chapters and became the Asian Quizzing Championships (AQC).
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
Member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included.
APAC: Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region; APJ: Asia Pacific and Japan [3] APMA: Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa; APSG: Asia Pacific and Singapore; Arab League: a regional organization of Arab countries
Initially, the Group was known as the Asian Group. [8] However, by the 1970s, Pacific island nations were gaining independence and joining the group. By the mid-2000s the number of Pacific island nations in the group had reached over one fifth of the membership, so they began to advocate for a change of name of the Group.
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(c) Australia’s proposal on the Asia Pacific community in which ASEAN will be at its core, will be further discussed at a 1.5 track conference to be organized by Australia in December 2009. In addition to these proposals India also has its proposal for an Asian Economic Community. [20]
In 1990, Malaysia proposed the creation of an East Asia Economic Caucus [20] composing the then-members of ASEAN and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea, with the intention of counterbalancing the growing influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and in the Asian region as a whole.