Given the implementation of African Continental Free Trade Area, the partnership agreements negotiated between European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific groups of countries may have to be revisited. 2. ..…

(Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection) NOT SO ANCIENT HISTORY . ... (Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection) OBLIQUE STRATEGIES . ..…

Japan can constrain China's Belt and Road in Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. ... With the influence of UK and France declining in the Asia- Pacific region, their military activities can get the support from Japan via ACSA. ..…

Photo Courtesy of Richard Nixon Foundation At Kennedy's PT-109 was run over by Japanese destroyer near Solomon Islands on Aug 1, 1943, Nixon was the Officer in Charge of the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command at Guadalcanal in Solomons and later at Green Island. ..…

Every region except Asia-Pacific has a lower average score for 2018 than it did in 2005, and even Asia declined when countries with less than 1 million people - mostly small Pacific Island states - are excluded. ..…

IFEX joined Cambodian Center for Human Rights and other civil society groups in submitting recommendations focused on promoting civil and political rights, expanding access to justice, and the protection of media freedom. 73 member states gave around 170 recommendations during UPR session. ..…

By Miscellaneous Items High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress Public Domain MANILA — ACT Teachers Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro called on President Rodrigo Duterte to enact HB 2092, An Act Declaring February of Every Year as. ..…

It offers easy access to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and is close to the Panama Canal. ... A separate law, passed in 1993, was intended to compensate black communities affected by the country’s legacy of slavery and racism by granting them collective land ownership on the Pacific..…

In our July 2016 issue, he addressed China’s island building and militarization in the Spratly area: “China is being aggressive and provocative,” and thereby challenging “seven decades of American naval dominance in the Pacific Rim.” ..…