The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.

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The picture was different abroad: Some 79% of two-year degree programs in the Asian-Pacific region and 80% of those in Central Asia experienced application gains as more locals sought graduate certifications and international students considered the region's strong job markets and economic opportunities.

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Diageo said Thursday that sales growth in the Asian-Pacific region, excluding acquisitions, disposals and currency effects, slowed to 4% in the nine months ended March 31 from 10% in the year-earlier period.

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The EAS was launched in 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bringing together leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six other Asia-Pacific region countries.

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He subsequently joined the Pentagon as director for Asian and Pacific affairs, in charge of devising foreign policy for the region.

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As of the end of 2011, the most recent period for which such data is available, 43.8% of CIC's equity holdings was in companies based in North America, followed by 29.6% in the Asian-Pacific region, 20.6% in Europe, 4.7% in Latin America and 1.3% in Africa.

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