The APEC Summit 2012 will take place in Vladivostok on September 8th and 9th 2012. The dates were announced late last week by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev while attending the Business Forum in Japan. Preparations for the APEC summit are well under-way in the Primorye Krai region which is seeing massive investment in infrastructure development to facilitate the summit and provide a lasting legacy for the region.

New roads, bridges, hotels are just some of many major infrastructure projects being undertaken.

A Taiwan company has won a contract to design the world's largest aquarium in Russia's Vladivostok city, the company has announced. The Huangs Green Country Industrial Co Ltd won the bid on the project that is part of Vladivostok's preparation for hosting the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, it said.