The ICSID has not yet ruled on the jurisdiction objection in the Pacific Rim-El Salvador case.
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It has opened a sales and marketing office in Cork, Ireland for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa markets, and one in Hong Kong for the Asia-Pacific Rim.
The smoldering ruin of the once-vibrant Pacific Rim is devastating testimony to the destructiveness of those traditional IMF prescriptions of devaluation and tax increases.
On Nov. 18 and 19 in Manila, deputy finance ministers and central bank officers from 14 Pacific Rim nations -- all members of APEC -- discussed the possibility of establishing for Asia some manner of economic assistance fund similar to or in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund.
Take Oru restaurant at the Asian-inspired Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver.
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The dramatic 377-room Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel (opened in 2010) is a big draw for business travellers due to its spectacular location on the water and across the street from the Vancouver Convention Centre.
In 1997, Shrake set up a subsidiary in Nevada called Pacific Rim Exploration, Inc. as a U.S.-based company to act as the exploration arm of Pacific Rim.
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The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum (Apec), set up in 1989 mainly to promote trade among Pacific Rim states, now accounts for more than half of global economic output and almost half of all international trade.
Significantly, he has invited President Lula to visit Peru when it hosts the November summit of the 21 Pacific Rim countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
From this vantage point, unless Man of Steel connects on a primal level or Pacific Rim really is a game-changer, Iron Man 3 is the presumptive box office champion of summer 2013, if not the entire calendar year.
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However, this is a potentially dangerous misconception, and to operate effectively in high performing markets such as Brazil and Mexico calls for as much in-depth understanding as those on the Pacific Rim.
Moreover, this expansion won't come from just playing "catch-up, " as happened with many Pacific Rim nations.
Shrake says Pacific Rim has always been a U.S.-based company, but the issue is complicated.
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He decided to go into petrochemicals while attending a Pacific Rim business conference in the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-1994.
Investors turning to the Pacific Rim for the next hot play bypass Australia for places with tech-based growth, such as Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
As trade negotiators from eleven Pacific Rim countries wrap up the 16th round of negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, consider what they have experienced.
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McNERNEY: Mr. President, few forums are watched more closely by those of us in the business community than APEC -- testimony to the extraordinary opportunity it represents for both sides of the Pacific Rim.
The IMF -- at the behest of the U.S. Treasury Department -- helped set off and deepen an easily avoidable disaster that has blighted the Pacific Rim, Russia and much of Latin America.
Pacific Rim acquired a firm that already had an exploration permit, a sort of phase-one permit in the mining world that allows companies to explore an area and determine whether mining would make sense there.
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Most can be mollified before they do serious damage, but the bent to battle "unfair" liberalization of commerce doesn't bode well--not for the WTO 's Doha Round, already on life support, not for a new Pacific Rim attempt and not for bilateral trade pacts.
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