Apec is the name given to a five-day old
baby boy who was found abandoned in a rubbish bag outside a beauty salon on
Sukhumvit Road in
Bangkok, near a venue where the annual 2003
Asia Pacific Economic Caucus (
APEC) conference was taking place.
He was given that name by a Thai policeman. Given that Apec is in poor health, a doctor was concerned that should his situation deteriorate it might bode ill fortune to the success of the international conference.
Apec's mother is Nongnuch McKavinny; his father is an absconding Westerner.
Prior to the conference starting, Thai authorities carried out a massive clean-up of their capital, which included the controversial step of expelling vagrants and illegal immigrants.
Source: http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/18Oct2003_news05.html et al