APEC 2025] leaders' summit GYEONGJU, South Korea, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- Asia-Pacific leaders on Saturday agreed that cultural and creative industries can help spur growth and that they should work together to promote these sectors,

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday that his country would help to defend global free trade at an annual economic regional forum snubbed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

In Gyeongju, a city in North Gyeongsang known for its tombs and Buddhist temples, the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit offered a different kind of history.

Most Asia-Pacific countries want and are heading in the direction of free and open trade, a senior official at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) secretariat said, as U. President Donald Trump's tariffs overshadowed the forum's annual summit.

In the Gyeongju Declaration, the member economies "recognize the detrimental impact of corruption as a threat in that it transcends borders, distorts markets, erodes public trust and facilitates crimes,

Taiwan's representative to the APEC summit, Lin Hsin-i, said on Saturday he and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed supply chains and semiconductors during a meeting on the sidelines of the event in South Korea.

World leaders and business titans gathered in South Korea this week to hash out issues from tariffs and AI to disputed history and regional security.