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Pan-Pacific Union (acronym PPU; alternate name Union Panpacifique; est. 1912) was an American organization founded in 1912 [a] in Honolulu, Hawaii by Alexander Hume Ford. [2] It was directed by men of every nation about the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of bringing the countries into close and more friendly relationship and understanding. [ 3 ]
The CGI was established as a replacement for the Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia (IGGI). The IGGI was an international donor group established in the late 1960s to help coordinate the flow of foreign aid to Indonesia.
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]
The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
The PPU was launched after a poll of 548 Virgin Atlantic pilots in June 2012 returned a 76% response and an 87.4% vote in favour" of setting up a new union to represent its members' needs. [2] [3] The PPU's AR21 form for the year ending 31 December 2018 declared that it had 325 members. [4] It represented 30% of Virgin Atlantic's pilots.
Peace Pledge Union poster. The PPU emerged from an initiative by Hugh Richard Lawrie 'Dick' Sheppard, canon of St Paul's Cathedral, [2] in 1934, after he had published a letter in the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers, inviting men (but not women) to send him postcards pledging never to support war.
Julianne Moore is speaking out after learning that President Donald Trump's administration has banned her children's book about self-acceptance in Pentagon-run schools worldwide. "It is a great ...
A power processing unit (PPU) is a circuit device that convert an electricity input from a utility line into the appropriate voltage and current to be used for the device in question. They serve the same purpose as linear amplifiers , but they are much more efficient, since the use of linear amplifiers results in much power loss due to the use ...