Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission [ APPPC,PPC/AP | Plant Protection Committee for the South-East Asia and Pacific Region ]

Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Health and Development in the South East Asian and Western Pacific Regions

Federation of Engineering Institutions South-East Asia and the Pacific

Preparations Section, South-east Asia and the Pacific

South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation | SPEC [Abbr.]

South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation | SPEC [Abbr.]

The Philippines, like the whole Southeast Asia-Pacific region, currently has a multitude of growing religious groups, and at times there are tensions that do fester.

Senator Housakos: Is it fair to say that, in the Southeast Asia-Pacific region, Canada, compared to what we are doing in the rest of the world, is probably at about 10 or 12 per cent of our mining exploration capacity compared to what we are doing in the Americas, Europe and other parts of world?

We have done research in South Asia, China and many African countries.

J. whereas the 2008 Afghanistan Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey (carried out by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)) confirms the trends of the 2007 survey, according to which the number of opium-free provinces in the north and centre might grow but the level of cultivation in the south and west is likely to increase; whereas the 2007 report on the one hand repeats the misconception that provinces with little or no poppy cultivation are "opium-free" but emphasises on the other hand the link between insecurity and narcotics production; whereas the core tools of a counter-narcotics policy are crop eradication, inte ...[+++]rdiction (which is much more complex than arresting traffickers), and development (alternative livelihoods) pursued simultaneously,