Table of Contents Details
...1 The Opioid Crisis 3 Executive Director’s Message 4 Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah 5 Campfire Stories: An Enduring Oral Tradition 6 Riding the Wind 7 Remembering the Bombs 8 U.S. Victory Over Japan: V-J Day 9 The Practically Perfect Woman: Mary 10 Full of Fire: Volcanoe...

Description Details
...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in...

Full Text Search Details
...uentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written ... ...this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied i... ...e case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. Kabbalah... ...rstanding and development, he received the 2001 Goi Award, the Peace Prize of Japan. He has written seventy-two books, translated into as many as ei... ...h we are parts of a greater whole, have been considered the exception in the history of civilization. But if we look at the history of ideas, we wil... ...nge is desire. The way our desires evolve both defines and designs the entire history of humanity. As humankind’s desires developed, they urged peop... ... we become. And because we are now at the most intense level of desire in our history, we cannot avoid the conclusion 32 KABBALAH REVEALED that tod...

Full Text Search Details
...A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION HOST OF 2011 LEADERS’ WEEK AS WELL AS THE “ALOHA SPIRIT” OF ITS PEOPLE. WHAT ... ...RENEURS AND CORPORATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. HAWAI‘I’S UNIQUE COMBINATION OF INCOMPARABLE LOCATION, ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES, AND CULTURE OF CO... ... HEALTH SCIENCES, AND CORPORATE CONVENTIONS. HAWAI‘I’S DIVERSE ABUNDANCE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND CULTURE OF COLLABORATION CREATE THE PERFECT PARAD... ...Eo THEr Ma l o TEC BIo FUEl s CLEAN ENERGY INNOVATIONS IN ACTION Through a Japanese-U.S. partnership, this multi-million-dollar project will test new... ...the Hawai‘i State Energy Offce, Hawaiian Electric Company is working with Japanese and U.S. manufacturers to prepare the state’s energy grid for a c... ...rough an international partnership with the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and India, Mauna Kea will be home to the Thirty Meter Telescope, th... ...ting ground for the Americas and Asia. The eight-island chain has a long history of welcoming people from around the world. Since the late 1700s, ...

Description Details
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

Full Text Search Details
...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ... much of what we love about today’s information ecosystem. Understanding its history sheds light on different possible futures and helps us to recogniz... ... debates about Internet policy. Yet increasingly the box has come to matter. History shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The e... ... that would not have been produced in a firm-mediated market model. The brief history of the Internet and PC illustrates how often the large and After ... ...hy the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors’ Dreams Failed in Japan, 79 U. C. L. R. (forthcoming 2008), available at http://ssrn.c... ...t http://ssrn.com/abstract 1010246 (noting that a digital recording tax in Japan similar to the proposals made by Fisher and others failed to produc...

Description Details
...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

Full Text Search Details
...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... .... Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C.... ...d. Jr., 1908 of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Roger Sherman Loomis 1909 of Yokoliaran, Japan: Henry Wolcott Toll 1909 of Den- ver, Col. Brown Hockey Captain Downi... ...nce, Latin, Tuesday, April 2. 1907, 9,00 a m., 4 H. H.-College, English 1, History 1 a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.... ...Art." 'I'ho lecture was jjiven under the auspices of the Lyceum of Natural History and was ar- ranged for by Dr. Howard. There were about fifty lanter... ... in as good taste as the other decora- tions. High above the floor, from a Japanese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-ligh... ...nese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-lighted Japanese lanterns, and other large Japanese lanterns hung on six mountain l...

Description Details
...This book is the second of three volumes designed to provide a general history of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom. The first volume was published some years ago under the title, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854: Foundation and Transformation. The third v...

Excerpt Details
...first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of California after the discovery of gold in that region, and the quick rise of San Francisco to a posit...

Table of Contents Details
...arbor Improvements. 19 -- Land Travel. 23 -- Mail Service. 26 -- The New King. 33 -- Administrative Organization. 36 -- General Policy. 37 -- Mission of W. L. Lee. 39 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. ...

Description Details
...This publication consists of a series of lectures prepared and given to interns and other employees by Mr. David G. Boak in 1966. Mr. Boak is uniquely qualified to discuss the history of the US COM_SEC because he has participated significantly in most...

Full Text Search Details
... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I a... ... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II); ... ...: 23-December-2007 Released date: 10-December-2008 Posted date: 24-December-2008 Source of document: National Security Agency Attn: FOIA/PA ... ...Ft. George G. Meade, MD 20755-6248 Phone: (301)-688-6527 Fax: (443)-479-3612 Note: The meat of the material left after redaction starts at (PDF) ... ...0 Serial: MDR-54498 10 December 2008 This responds to your request of 23 December 2007 to have A History of U.S. Communications Security (2 volumes) b... ...----------~=--- r In 1962, an officer usigned to a very small intelligence detachment in Japan\wuperi'~1 the routine duty of iDB~c:tiDg the ar... ...printers were much quieterin the first place? Behind these events and questions lies a very long history beginning with the discovery of a pouible thr...

Full Text Search Details
...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ...T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligence IV. Financial Investor, Strategic Investor V. ... ...ing, Controls. The Marketing Plan Must include the following elements: • A brief history of the business (to show its track performance and growt... ...rnal audits (frequency and procedures); • The banks that the firm is working with: history, references, balances. Technical Plan • Description o... ... of Stock Trends": "The science of recording, usually in graphic form, the actual history of trading (price changes, volume of transactions, etc.)... ... the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-evaders - channeled precisely through such institut... ...uential politicians - they often end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently ... ...prices to rents and to median income are at historic highs. One is reminded of the Japanese boast, at the height of their realty bubble, that the g...

Description Details
...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...

Full Text Search Details
...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...cope Broadening" Debate 22 Social Marketing: Two Meanings 23 A BROADENED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSAC... ...oked by the Congress. This book is timely. It is difficult to imagine a period in history when restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so rel... ...ead of ideas, good as well as bad, across vast regions on a scale unprecedented in history. So it is time for the trade in ideas, as perceived by Ho... ...is not new," comment Allport and Postman (1947). They go on to ask: How much of history, . . . can be regarded as the reactions of important group... ...nefits: In August 1945, a rumor spread to the effect that Russia declared war on Japan only because Russia received in exchange the secret of the ... ...f films as idea channels (Brembeck and Howell 1976, p. 39). On the other hand, in Japan, which endures the highest per-capita consumption of cigaret...

Full Text Search Details
... NOAA FISHERIES PACIFIC ISLANDS REGION plays a signifcant role in the HEALTH of our OCEAN and the nation’s ECONOMY and COASTAL COMMUNITIES. Our dedic... ...e, and inform decision-makers. The NOAA Fisheries Service touches the lives of everyone in the U.S. Pacifc islands and we are proud of our role in co... ...ing valuable, healthy fsheries. NOAA Fisheries Pacifc Islands Region’s area of responsibility is bound by the Hawaiian Archipelago in the north, Amer... ... Aloha Friends, Our unique history and multi-cultural relationships are the bedrock of our diverse ... ...of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the ... ...ek hosted by a designated economy. Last year the forum was held in Yokohama, Japan, and this year the U.S. has the privilege of hosting APEC for the f... ... AUSTRALIA//BRUNEI//DARUSSALAM//CANADA//CHILE//CHINA//HONG KONG//INDONESIA//JAPAN//KOREA//MALAYSIA//MEXICO//NEW ZEALAND 09 Nov. 7-10: ABAC IV, Haw... ... special magazine given to APEC atten- dees will educate them about Hawaiian history, music, language and art. The Hawai‘i Host Committee also created...

Description Details
...The long-awaited third edition of the Atlas of Hawai'i is entirely revised in content and design. It is divided into six sections, five of which are abundantly illustrated. The first contains detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, b...

Excerpt Details
...Eo e ku'u lei mokupuni o na kai 'ewalu- I call to you, acknowledge O my lei islands of the eight seas. Located between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the center ...

Table of Contents Details
...ai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- Natural Hazards -- 67 -- Earthquakes -- 69 -- Volcanic Hazards on the Island of Hawai'i -- 72 -- Hurricanes -- 74 -- Tsunamis -- 76 -- Coastal Hazards -- 79 -- The Ocean -- 82 -- Water -- 87 -- Soils -- 92 -- Astronomy -- 97 -- Biogeography -- 103 -- Evolution -- 107 -- Marine Ecosystems -- 111 -- Te...

Description Details
...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

Full Text Search Details
...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist , , - Abuse Torture An Overview What is Abuse? Trau... ...ulture in the Development of Narcissistic Personality Disorders in America, Japan and Denmark": "Individualistic narcissistic structures of self-rega... ...iduals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common pathology be.... ...one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He do... ...gn language. It is meaningless. One might recite the most delicate haiku in Japanese and it would still remain meaningless to a non-Japanese. That n... ... Japanese and it would still remain meaningless to a non-Japanese. That non-Japanese are not adept at Japanese does not diminish the value of the ha... ...– are only partly useful in answering this question." "An individual's work history may provide little help in making the distinction. Highly distur...

Description Details
Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

Full Text Search Details
... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psych... ... A. Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality Psychosexual Stages of Development Gender and Personality Disorders The Genetic Roots... ...ned to human speech and can distinguish sounds better than adults do. Chinese and Japanese babies react differently to "pa" and to "ba", to "ra" a... ... it and together they created one of the most impressive theoretical bodies in the history of psychology. Fairbairn internalised Klein's insights t... ...onstruct which reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of A... ... of American History observes, in her recently published tome, "How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States", that the very m... ...lumbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensual incest than others (Japan, India until the 1930's, Australia). The list is long an...

Description Details
...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. ...

Full Text Search Details
...ale. Literary agents and publishers, please contact Lidija Rangelovska. To get FREE updates of this book JOIN the Narcissism Study List. To JOI... ...9989-929-06-8 Print ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading ... ... National Background Briefing, July 18, 2004 "Sam Vaknin is a leading authority on the topic of narcissism." Lisa Angelettie M.S.W., BellaOnline... ...thing or to someone – we get used to ourselves. In the object of the habit we see a part of our history, all the time and effort we had put into it.... ...social edicts and mores does not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia... ...-dystonic). Others confine their lack of self-love to certain of their traits, to their personal history, or to some of their behaviour patterns. Ye... ...oni's "The Role of Culture in the Development of Narcissistic Personality Disorders in America, Japan and Denmark": "Individualistic narcissistic ...

Description Details
Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

Full Text Search Details
...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...in 1947. Aung San may be a hero to the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the secon... ...ough he conveniently switch allegiances to the winning side five months before the Japanese capitulated. Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - ... ...ung San raised a Burmese contingent - the "Burma Independence Army" - to assist the Japanese in their invasion of Burma in 1942. He was rewarded wit...

Full Text Search Details
...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth ... ... piece of raw life that they are watching. But moviegoers throughout Hollywood's history have willingly and insatiably participated in numerous "... ...mulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal criminals in history. The Director Weir asks: should God be allowed to be imm... ...ikson) and he constantly evolves in accordance with his innate nature (Jung), past history (Adler), drives (Freud), cultural milieu (Horney), upbri... ...ys are invariably American (or mistaken for Americans, or the allies of Americans, Japanese). The bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and ... ...'s insistence that its military and intelligence services - frequently busy raping (Japan, the Philippines), murdering (Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afgha... ...ovie gets sliced up but, against all odds, succeeds to extract the badly mutilated Japanese from her hellish cell and escape. Catching a glimpse of...

Description Details
...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

Full Text Search Details
...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...sual experiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely acc... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...saluted the new communism in her heart; snickered inside at the thought that Japan had out-capitalized the West the way it tried to out-imperialize th... ...All one had were one's concoctions of plausible scenarios about the person's history and how he or she might behave from empirical personal experience... ...for this international gourmet supermarket which would soon be replicated in Japan. He showed her through the aisles and pointed out every item on th...

Description Details
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

Full Text Search Details
...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...n Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or areAsian cultures stronger, are they able to choose their future,... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...ers of the plains villages tried out new cash crops which were marketed by Japanese agro-business. Potatoes have also become popular in Thailand, and ... ... to educational level, Thailand is still behind the Asian 'top countries', Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, but it is catching up fast. The governme...

Description Details
...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

Excerpt Details
...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

Table of Contents Details
...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...

Full Text Search Details
...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: W... ...ww.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and... .... 12. Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: St... ...se. 14. Political alliances, and such terms from secular or ecclesiastical history as have, through their associa- tions, acquired special signific... ...e, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents, Independency (English history). 15. Conventions, congresses, expositions, etc. : Council of N... ...e" in Hast- ing~' Dictionary of the Bible; The subject of the lecture was 'Japan-Its Past, Present, and Future;" the next toast on the programme wa...

Description Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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 ... ...’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS ..................................................... 1 HISTORY .............................................................. ... Chapter 1: APEC’s Ease of Doing Business 1 1. APEC’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS HISTORY APEC’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiative dates back... ...ealand and the United States • Dealing with Permits: Singapore • Getting Credit: Japan • Trading Across Borders: Hong Kong, China 3 and Singapore ... ...re shown with negative values. Business registration, multilevel efforts in Japan and The Philippines Government and private sector partners... ... and private sector partnerships in Japan The New Growth Strategy approved by the Japanese Cabinet in June 2010 suggested a stronger cooperation bet... ...adult population listed in a public credit registry with information on repayment history, unpaid debts, or credit outstanding from the past five ye...