Asia Pacific Affairs Blog

• 11 Feb 2010Year of Change and Opportunity
  This weekend marks the start of the Lunar New Year as we usher in the year of the Tiger. Like the tiger that is fast and ferocious, many expect the year ahead to be intense and challenging - a year that will require us to be nimble and flexible to adapt to the far reaching changes ahead.
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• 15 Jan 2010Asia Pacific - Start of a Busy Year
  The New Year has got off to a busy start for the CANSO Asia Pacific Office. I will be leaving for Jakarta next week to attend an ADS-B meeting where CANSO, IATA and the ANSPs of Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore will discuss progress of the ADS-B project and the key milestones needed to ensure timely delivery of the significant operational and fuel saving benefits identified in a cost benefit study produced by CANSO last year.
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• 25 Nov 20091st Asia Pacific Safety Seminar Demonstrates Power of CANSO Network
  Over the last two days about 30 participants from 12 ANSPs gathered in Singapore for CANSO’s 1st Asia Pacific Safety Seminar. The seminar attracted not CANSO members non-members alike.
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• 21 Oct 200946th DGCA Conference Calls for Seamless Sky in the Asia-Pacific
  I have just returned from the 46th Asia Pacific DGCA Conference in Osaka, Japan. The conference which had the theme of seamless sky for the region culminated in a Kansai Statement issued by the DGCAs as a joint declaration to realise a Seamless Sky in the region, specifically in the areas of ATM, air cargo security and aviation safety.
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