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Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as Asia-Pac, Asia Pac, AsPac, Aspac, Apac, APAC, APNIC, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The region varies in size depending on context, but it typically includes at least much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

The term may also include Russia (on the North Pacific) and countries in North and South America which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.

Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as small/medium/large Pacific island nations - for example when dividing the world into large regions for commercial purposes (e.g. into Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific).

Even though imprecise, the term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance and politics^{[citation needed]} though the economies within the region are heterogeneous, they are mostly emerging markets experiencing rapid growth. (Compare the concept/acronym APEJ or APeJ - Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.^[1])

Component areas[link]

The Asia-Pacific region generally includes:

Main countries and territories data[link]

Country / territory	Area (km²)	Population	Pop. density (/km²)	GDP millions of USD (2009)	GDP per capita USD (2009)	Capital
American Samoa	199	55,519	326	537	7,874	Pago Pago
Australia	7,617,930	22,462,842	3	920,000	41,500	Canberra
Brunei	5,765	407,000	70	14,700	36,700	Bandar Seri Begawan
Cambodia	181,035	14,805,000	82	10,900	800	Phnom Penh
China	9,671,018	1,339,530,000	138	4,911,000	3,700	Beijing
Hong Kong	1,104	7,055,071	6,390	210,730	30,000	-
India	3,287,263	1,210,193,422	365	4,060,000	3,339	Delhi
Indonesia	1,904,569	237,556,363	126	514,900	2,200	Jakarta
Japan	377,944	127,470,000	337	5,073,000	39,700	Tokyo
North Korea	120,540	23,906,000	198	27,820	1,200	Pyongyang
South Korea	100,140	50,062,000	500	800,300	20,000	Seoul
Laos	236,800	6,320,000	27	5,721	900	Vientiane
Macau	29	541,200	18,662	21,700	39,800	-
Malaysia	329,847	28,318,000	86	191,399	7,525	Kuala Lumpur
Mongolia	1,564,116	2,736,800	2	4,212	1,500	Ulan Bator
Myanmar	676,578	50,496,000	74	26,820	500	Naypyidaw
Nepal	147,181	27,000,000	251	-	-	Kathmandu
New Zealand	268,021	4,357,437	16	109,600	25,500	Wellington
Papua New Guinea	462,840	6,732,000	15	8,200	1,200	Port Moresby
Philippines	299,764	91,983,000	307	158,700	1,700	Manila
Singapore	710	4,564,987,600	7,023	177,133	35,500	City of Singapore
Taiwan	36,191	23,119,772	639	379,400	16,400	Taipei
Thailand	513,120	67,764,000	132	263,510	3,900	Bangkok
Timor-Leste	14,874	1,171,000	76	599	500	Dili
Vietnam	331,210	88,069,000	265	97,119	1,100	Hanoi

See also[link]

• Geography of Asia
• Geography of Oceania
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
• East Asian Summit
• Miss Asia-Pacific
• Pacific Century
• Asian Century
• Asia-Pacific Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
• Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre
• Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Asia Society

References[link]

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External links[link]

• APEC
• The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN)
• BBC Asia-Pacific
• ABC Radio Australia Asia Pacific
• Australia Network (formerly "ABC Asia Pacific")

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David Choi
Background information
Birth name	David Yong Choi
Born	(1986-03-22) March 22, 1986 (age 26) Anaheim, California, U.S.
Origin	Garden Grove, California, U.S.
Genres	Rock, pop rock, alternative, soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, violin, ukulele, mandolin
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Warner Chappell Music (left) Unsigned (present)
Associated acts	Wong Fu Productions Kina Grannis Ryan Higa Kevin Wu Chester See JR Aquino Shane Dawson
Website	David Choi Official Site

David Yong Choi (최데이비드용) (born March 22, 1986)^[1] is a Korean American musician and YouTube video producer living in Los Angeles.^[2] He performs a mix of original songs and covers of pop hits. Choi released his debut album, Only You, in October 2008.^[3] His second album, By My Side,^[4] was released on May 19, 2010. His songs and tracks have been heard on NBC, FOX, VH1, MTV, A&E, E!, Travel Channel, Style, PBS, Food Network, Disney, as well as in commercials internationally. He has worked with companies including Kelloggs, Starburst, the American Cancer Society, General Electric, YesStyle, Samsung, and J. C. Penney.^[5][6][7][8] On YouTube, he has over 900,000 subscribers, 102,000,000 total video views, and more than 13 million channel views. As of November 2011 he is YouTube's 15th most subscribed musician and 62nd most subscribed user overall.^[9][10] Choi worked as a songwriter and producer at Warner/Chappell Music, which signed him on after his participation in an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) workshop.^[2] On February 21, 2009, he performed at the annual Kollaboration talent show.^[2]

His humorous song "YouTube, A Love Song" has received over 2.6 million views. The music videos for his singles Won't Even Start and That Girl, which are posted on both his and producers Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channels, has received a total of over 5 million views. He also posts non-music videos such as vlogs on his second channel. Choi often appears in online videos with fellow YouTube personalities, mostly playing a humorous character with a very straight face (his prominent trait). Some YouTube personalities, like Shane Dawson and Wong Fu Productions, often use Choi's music in their videos.

Early life and career[link]

Childhood and education[link]

David Choi was born in Anaheim, California on March 22, 1986. He is of Korean descent and comes from a musical family. His parents, Ray Choi and Jane Choi own a music store named "Grace Store" and his father plays the autoharp.^[11]

At a young age, David had to play piano and violin, which he did not particularly enjoy. However, he was concertmaster of his school orchestra.^[11] He never heard a pop song until he was in sixth grade, when he heard Smash Mouth's All Star. Soon he came across the song All the Small Things by Blink 182 and attempted to play it with the guitar. Choi stopped taking violin lessons in high school. In ninth grade, Choi began taking jazz piano lessons and began composing music. He entered a contest and submitted an instrumental pop song, and won his first award.

Start Of His Career (2002–2006)[link]

He started to compose his music digitally at first, with a program called Acid Pro. He learned how to use it himself a few days after downloading it.^[11] He learned a few songwriting tips from a friend named Judy.

In 2004, Choi won the grand prize in David Bowie’s Mashup contest. Appearing in USA Weekend Magazine with Usher, he received the grand prize for the magazine's John Lennon Songwriting Contest for teens.^[3] This marked the start of his musical career, at first as a staff songwriter/producer, when Warner Chappell Music signed him.^[11] In 2006, his humorous YouTube love song, entitled Youtube (A Love Song) was uploaded on December 30 that year, and brought him "overnight" fame. Since then he has been composing humorous songs, like "It's Rad To Pick Your Nose" and "I Think I Like You." "My Company" was also a half-humorous, half-love song. His YouTube love song, to his surprise, was posted on the homepage of the website. He stated in a blog post that he found out when a friend told him, "you're on the homepage."^[11] He soon received requests for new songs, a live performance and an album. He did want to release his songs in an album, but as he was a signed songwriter/producer at that time, he had to go through a lot of legal procedures and accept a lot of contractual conditions. Thus, he left Warner, and stayed unsigned so he could carry on with his album release.^[11]

Only You (2007–2008)[link]

David Choi released his first album in 2008 and it was entitled Only You. It contained mostly love songs, notably Love, Won't Even Start, Something To Believe and Only You. In 2009, David released a Korea Special edition of the album, containing three bonus tracks. Won't Even Start became his hit single, and he released a music video on it, collaborating with Wong Fu Productions in producing his first official music video. The album also bonded him with Korean fans, releasing a special Korean edition with three bonus tracks.

By My Side & That Girl (2009–2010)[link]

Within a space of half a year (4th Quarter 2009 to 1st Quarter 2010), David compiled composed songs into his sophomore album, which was released in 2010 on May 18, By My Side. He released a music video on the lead single "That Girl" that same date. The music video was produced by David Choi and his friends from production company Wong Fu Productions. He collaborated with them for the second time, the first being the music video on "Won't Even Start", and Julia Chang acted as 'that girl' alongside him.^[12] He also released a Korean edition, with two bonus tracks: Valentines and My Company.

Forever and Ever (2011–present)[link]

David sings "This And That" at the Esplanade in Singapore.

During his tours in 2011, David Choi sang two songs he wrote during 2010, "You Were My Friend" and "This and That is Life". He has blurted that a third album will include these two songs.^[13] On July 7, 2011, David released his third music video, for his single "By My Side", once again a collaboration with Wong Fu Productions. This music video features Jenny Ong.^[14] David also started to help his father, Ray Choi, in uploading YouTube videos of Ray playing the autoharp.^[15] His song "I Choose Happiness", of which the instrumental version is always used in KevJumba and Wong Fu Productions videos, was also chosen to be used in the 2011 film "Lucky". It was also featured in an episode of Make It or Break It David Choi announced that he is going to release his third album, "Forever and Ever" on October 25, 2011.

Tours[link]

Choi embarked on his first tour^[16] from November 12 to November 19, 2009. He sang live in the United States West Coast cities of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, as well as in Vancouver, Canada.^[17] In 2010 Choi embarked on his second tour singing live in the United States East Coast cities of Washington DC, New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as Toronto, Canada. The year after (2010) he visited the few cities again.

In August 2010, David Choi went to Singapore for vacation and tour. He was there for eleven days, one day being his vacation day where he went to Sentosa and Night Safari.^[18] In 2011, Choi went on a short tour around North America again, entitled "Spring Tour", this time including Houston, Chicago, and Hawaii. He also frequents Korea.

In the summer vacation of 2011, David announced another tour – this time his first continental tour (as he went around Southeast Asia), his Asia-Pacific Tour. He went to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. In Australia, David was supported by Australian acts Amelia Jae and Jayesslee. In Singapore, he had Inch Chua to do an introductory three songs and sing his and Kina Grannis' "My Time With You". Again, David went to small venues, like the Esplanade Recital Studio, which holds about 245 people.^[19]

David Choi at a concert.

Accompanying with tours, David also has meet-and-greet sessions, where he meets his fans.^[20]

In January 2012, David announced his Forever and Ever USA/Canada tour. All shows are all ages, with a full band, and a meet and greet session. For all shows, David is giving away pairs of Skunkjuice Earbuds to two lucky audience members. David's Forever and Ever tour will continue until April and tickets can be purchased on http://davidchoimusic.com/tour.

In May 2012, David started on his third tour to Asia-Pacific, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo.

Style[link]

Genre and lyrics[link]

David Choi's music genre falls mostly under the modern "ballad" genre, with his songs being slow, and mostly about love, relationships, and break-ups.^[21] His songs have been described as "often to melt girls' hearts" and they really seem like oldies, in contrast with modern love songs like Dynamite, which often involve partying and rapping, or Bruno Mars songs, which don't really describe relationships. This is probably because David grew up listening to classical and jazz music.^[11] His songs are like sources of motivation, for example "Valentines", which encourage singles to wait.

Portrait[link]

For quite awhile David was portrayed by netizens and fans as a sad and solemn guy with a poker face, having not smiled for two years (2006–2008). He promised he would not smile until he reached 77,777 subscribers, a goal he accomplished.^[22] The tune and melody he uses in his songs are often happy melodies, for example "Something To Believe"^[23] and "My Time With You".^[24]

Discography[link]

• Only You (2008 – CD (digipak) and iTunes)
• Only You (Korea Special Edition) (2009 – CD; only for Korea +3 bonus tracks)
• By My Side (2010 – CD (digipak) and iTunes)
• YouTube Covers Volume 1 (2010 – iTunes exclusive)
• YouTube Covers Volume 2 (2010 – iTunes exclusive)
• By My Side (Korea Special Edition) (2010 – CD; only for Korea +2 bonus tracks)
• Forever and Ever (2011 [released on 25 October] – CD and iTunes)

In other media[link]

Songs in other media[link]

Filmography and TV appearances[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

See also[link]

• Notable YouTube users

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Choi official website
• David's primary's channel on YouTube

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John Ross Sanchez Gamboa, better known by his screen name Joross Gamboa (born November 28, 1984 in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines), is a Filipino actor who is now a former GMA Network contract artist after moving back to ABS-CBN.^[1]

New career[link]

After four years of being with ABS-CBN Star Magic, Joross Gamboa asked to be released and signed a two-year contract under the management of Becky Aguila. He was seen in the comedy segment Kaya Mo Ba To? in 2005 followed by Maynila in 2007 of the GMA Network, which became the reason for rumors of Joross moving to the said Network. After signing a contract with Becky Aguila, he will stay with ABS-CBN as his new talent manager still has issues with GMA Network. Joross will now join Jennylyn Mercado, and Valerie Concepcion under the stable of Ms. Aguila.

After the transfers of fellow former Kapamilya Stars Claudine Barreto & Bayani Agbayani are both moved to GMA Channel 7, Joross Gamboa is now a Kapuso Star for a contract signing last December 21. He is the fourth Star Circle Questor move on GMA-7 such us Hero Angeles, Joseph Bitangcol and Michelle Madrigal.^[2]

By December 2010, he is back on ABS-CBN as the Antagonist in the Kristine Series: The Second Book in December playing Antagonist to Bangs Garcia's character and Zanjoe Marudo's character Bernard in the Hit Primetime Television Drama.

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Films[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joross Gamboa at the Internet Movie Database

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Margaux Uson (born May 17, 1982), known professionally as Mocha Uson and Mocha, is a Filipino singer, dancer and model best known for her work as lead vocalist for the Mocha Girls.

Early life and career[link]

Uson was born May 17, 1982 in Pangasinan, Philippines. She spent her elementary and high school years at Mother Goose Special School System Inc. and took Medical Technology at the University of Sto. Tomas. Her mother, a well-known doctor in the city, wanted her to be her successor. Uson, deciding to pursue her first love which is performing, soon graduated from a shy performer to a liberated one. Many people criticized her when unflattering photos of her kissing her bandmate were published in a tabloid. She, however, used the issue to her own advantage. She is now known as one of the few female personalities in the Philippines who openly admit to being bisexual.^{[citation needed]} She was part of a band in school and was in GMA's talent center before eventually plunging into the recording scene. Her biggest break along with the rest of the Mocha Girls came early 2009 after signing up with Viva Records.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• A Taste of Mocha (2006; XAX Records)
• Mocha (2007; Viva Records)
• Deliciosa (2008; Viva Records)

Filmography[link]

TV shows[link]

• Twin Hearts (2003; GMA Network)
• P.O.5 (2010–2011; TV5)

TV guestings[link]

• Umagang Kay Ganda
• Wowowee
• ASAP
• Music Uplate Live
• Cool Center
• Everybody Happy
• Comedy Bar

External links[link]

• Mocha Uson's website
• Mocha Uson at the Internet Movie Database

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Gerald Padua Santos (born May 15, 1991, Navotas City, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a singer and actor who won Pinoy Pop Superstar (Season 2) in 2006. He is the STAR AWARDS for MUSIC's MALE POP ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2011 (for his album GERALD SANTOS: PINAKAHIHINTAY) and ALIW AWARDS' BEST MALE CONCERT PERFORMER 2011( for his concert GERALD SANTOS : MAJOR MOVE at the Music Museum last June 18, 2011). He was also nominated in the 2011 ALIW AWARDS for another category ( BEST ACTOR in a MUSICAL for his very first musical play "SINO KA BA JOSE RIZAL" under Gantimpala Theater Foundation, the Pearl of Philippine Theater!).. He is now affiliated with TV5 and can regularly be see in the youth-oriented show, "HEY IT'S SABERDAY"..

Biography[link]

In 2006 Santos won the second season of GMA 7's show Pinoy Pop Superstar.^[1]

He signed a five-year contract with GMA, including a record record deal with GMA Records, and became a regular on the TV series SOP Rules. He was cast for the primetime TV series I Luv New York, and was a co-host of QTV's Popstar Kids in 2006. His SOP role earned him a nomination for a PMPC STAR Awards.^{[citation needed]} His first single, "A Day on the Rainbow", was released in November 2006. In 2008 he released his second studio album, Gerald Santos: Pinakahihintay. In 2011 another single was released, "Yong Pagmamahal."

Discography[link]