Chiang joined Goodbaby's board and stayed on after AIG and other investors sold their stakes to the Pacific Alliance Group in 2006.

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Another topic Monday was Japan's possible membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade alliance that is part of Obama's strategy to increase U.S. exports and influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

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PERS, with 1.2m members, and the Pacific Business Group on Health, an alliance of 45 large employers that buys health benefits for 3m people, demanded, and for four years up to 1998 won, successive reductions in premiums.

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Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks and Australia's Telstra announced an alliance.

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Hey sports fans, did you see that six professional teams from the Pacific Northwest just banded together to launch a new Green Sports Alliance (GSA)?

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The merged carrier would continue American's participation in the OneWorld alliance, which was founded by American, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas.

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This alliance guarantees peace, stability and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula, the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

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Over the decades, our Alliance has steadily developed into a comprehensive partnership that contributes to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, an important center for global economic growth, and beyond.

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Both Qantas -- known as the "Flying Kangaroo" airline -- and BA are partners in the Oneworld Global Alliance, an umbrella which links 10 of the world's carriers, including American Airlines and Cathay Pacific.

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