...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ...ance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly its Friends of the Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and ... ...Middle East & North Africa 4.0 1.8 4.2 3.2 0.1 2.7 OECD 1.4 -0.7 1.1 1.5 0.0 0.7 South Asia 8.6 3.9 3.4 -4.5 0.0 2.3 Sub Saharan Africa 3.2 4.5 8.7... ...rovement was the second largest among all regions, slightly below the progress by South Asia. Source: World Bank – Doing Business ... ...ess start-ups in Brunei Darussalam; Chile; Indonesia; Mexico and Viet Nam The Government of Brunei Darussalam introduced e-Registry, a system tha... ... purview of the Registrar of Companies (ROC), Brunei Darussalam. In addition, the government established a committee to facilitate coordination amon... ...ether 13 licensing processes into a single online window. This system will ensure government agencies process business applications concurrently, th... ... Source: World Bank – Doing Business APEC was the only region, together with South Asia, to experience an improvement in the four Starting a Bu...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...rrorist Attacks 383 13. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT 399 13.1 Unity of Effort across the Foreign-Domestic Divide ... ... and practices to deter or defeat it.W e learned of fault lines within our government—between foreign and domestic intelligence, and between and withi... ...e problems of managing and sharing information across a large and unwieldy government that had been built in a different era to confront different dan... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...that the plane was “flying erratically . ”A minute later, Flight 11 turned south. American also began getting identifications of the hijackers, as Ong...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ...can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) and United Public Workers (UPW)... ...OVERNOR NEIL ABERCROMBIE Hoku Solar works with high-profle companies and government agencies on major photovoltaic projects. PHOTO: MICHAEL TORRES ... ...e Big Island, Hoku secured fnancing, took advantage of federal and state government tax credits to build and operate the solar panels, and now sel... ...dings Co. Ltd. (TWNE), an afliate of the multifaceted conglomerate China South Industries Group (CSGC). Polysilicon is a huge business in China. A... ...omania • Russia Saudi Arabia • Serbia • Singapore • Slovakia • Slovenia • South Korea • Spain • Sri Lanka Sudan • Sweden • Switzerland • Taiwan • Ta... ...Canada, Australia and Chile. Below the equator, Chile manages the Gemini South telescope that operates in tandem with its Hawaiian twin to provide...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Di...