ASIA Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent‚ located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth’s total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 3.9 billion people‚ it hosts 60% of the world’s current human population. During the 20th century Asia’s population nearly quadrupled. Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia. It is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains‚ and
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Drug Control in Central Asia This video talks about Central Asia’s drug control problem and how they are not very well equipped to deal with this issue. This video addresses policy issues. These countries do not have the means to control their drug problem. One major factor is heroin coming from Afghanistan. Countries surrounding Afghanistan have a very high rate of heroin abuse. These abusers could be a productive part of society‚ but instead are doing drugs. The video talks about an agency that
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“Japanese ambition in East Asia was driven by their desire to create an “Asia for Asians”. Use the Greater East Asia Conference to show how far you agree with this statement. Japanese ambition in East Asia has resulted in a war waged across the Pacific during WW2. From the given primary source which is a transcript of Prime Minister Tojo’s speech at the Greater East Asia Conference‚ the Japanese claimed that their ambition in East Asia was driven by their desire to create an “Asia for Asians”. The source
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1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan put the security of South Asia at risk and provided the leaders with another reason to have closer ties in order to foster understanding of common problems and conflicts before they spun out of control. At this critical juncture‚ a report by the Committee on Studies for Cooperation in Development in South Asia (CSCD) identified many feasible areas of cooperation between the countries of South Asia
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* * * * * “Asia’s Challenge 2020” What is the most important challenge facing Asia over the next decade? Why? What should be done about it? Unhealthy development: a lack of values education and personal generosity CHIM Chamroeun Do we really have enough will to come together and cope with challenges? Let us have a look at this metaphor of our body which consists of trillions of cells. “A main purpose of a cell is to organize. Cells hold a variety of pieces and each cell has a different
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The newly found petroleum supplies changed the nations is southwest Asia in a couple of ways. Nationalism was emerging in southwest Asia as a major‚ major force. Nationalism wasn’t the only thing that was emerging though. It’s economy was starting to grow and take a new course that it never did before. In the industrialized countries‚ there was a demand for petroleum products. This demand brought the expiration for oil in Asia. The American and European companies were the ones who discovered oil
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POLITICAL ASPECTS • Political uncertainty in Malaysia with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi set to step down in March 2009. • Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to take over the ruling-coalition party‚ but with a cloud of allegations. • Political unrest in Thailand recently when anti-government protesters recently blocked flights for a week at Bangkok’s main airports. • ASEAN nations have been pushing Indonesia to scrap its Rp.1 million ‘Fiscal’ charge to all Indonesian citizens and
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SM Mall of Asia From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia SM Mall of Asia "No other mall comes close" Location Barangay 76‚ Bay City‚ Pasay‚Philippines Opening date May 21‚ 2006 Developer SM Prime Holdings Management SM Prime Holdings Owner Henry Sy‚ Sr. Architect Arquitectonica No. of anchor tenants 13 Total retail floor area 407‚101 m2 (4‚382‚000 sq ft) No. of floors Main & entertainment buildings: 2 Carpark buildings: 6 Website SM Mall of Asia SM Mall of Asia at SM Prime
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The industrialisation of Asia became a new world for the europeans but lead way for dard life for the asians. China had been of the europeans radar for hundreds of years but never became of interest to them till the early 1800’s‚ Europeans desperately wanted to make trade in china creating the start of two extremes of success and unjust. Imperialism in Asia had many effects to both Asia and Europe. Opium‚ extraterritoriality and western influence. China became addicted‚when Europeans could not
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Southeast Asia Bruce Vaughn‚ Coordinator Specialist in Asian Affairs Emma Chanlett-Avery Specialist in Asian Affairs Ben Dolven Section Research Manager Mark E. Manyin Specialist in Asian Affairs Michael F. Martin Analyst in Asian Trade and Finance Larry A. Niksch Specialist in Asian Affairs October 16‚ 2009 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL34194 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Terrorism in Southeast Asia Summary
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