location and how it is used as a ‘definable characteristic’ and henceforth as an identity that makes Southeast Asia. Obviously‚ Oxford Dictionaries has already defined for us which countries are included. Just to make sure‚ the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries could also be used as a medium to look into which countries is part of Southeast Asia. But is there all there is to it? Obviously in order to define a region‚ it has to have ‘definable characteristic‚’ and henceforth
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Asian Social Science December‚ 2009 Factors Effecting Drug Relapse in Malaysia: An Empirical Evidence Fauziah Ibrahim‚ PhD Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia E-mail: ifauziah@ukm.my Naresh Kumar‚ PhD Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia E-mail: naresh@putra.upm.edu.my Abstract It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative
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Asian American’s have engaged on the issue of sexuality. It started with the same sex marriage ordeal in Hawaii in the 1990’s. Same sex marriage has been a regular ongoing debate and Asian American became involved since the 1998 ballot in Hawaii. In Hawaii there was huge debate between many groups. First off‚ The Japanese American Citizens League in 1994 decided to affirm its commitment to support the basic human right of marriage which included the right to marry for same-sex couples. In Helen
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Operation Bluestar The topic of “Operation Bluestar” is a very controversial issue because of where the Operation took place and all the events that occured. Operation Bluestar‚ was the code name given by the Indian government. It was an operation to evict Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the Golden Temple. The Golden Temple is one of the most sacred places of worship for the Sikh community. It is also one of the oldest Sikh temples around
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Religion in Asian Theatre From 350-1350 c.e. theatre began to die off in the western countries due to Christianity and the fall of Rome. At about this time‚ the performing arts began to emerge on the Eastern hemisphere. The creators of Asian theatre new nothing of the theatre in Rome or Greece so there was no influence during the fabrication of this new form of theatre. Eastern theatre is much more stylized in that they believe in “total theatre‚” which is using every element of theatre be it
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GROUP 5 : ASIAN DEVELOPMEN T BANK ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 which is headquartered in Metro Manila‚ Philippines‚ to facilitate economic development in Asia. The bank admits the members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP‚ formerly the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East or ECAFE) and non-regional developed countries. "HISTORY ” 1962–1972 The concept of a regional bank was
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Finance 111: Essay Question a) The so-called Asian financial crisis provided some valuable lessons about nation-state and global financial systems. What are some of those lessons? The Asian Financial Crisis was happened start from Thailand in 1997. It is caused by the outflow of foreign capital. Before 1997‚ one of the initiatives that Thailand try to deregulate the financial system to approachable to foreign capital is Bangkok International Banking Facility (BIBF) and foreign banks were permitted
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The Asian societies successfully restricted the Europeans in terms of Christianity and some terms of trade by isolation and banishment but they were unsuccessfully restricted by means of trade with the Mughal India and South East Asia. The Christians were banished from Japan and China and the others refused to conform to Christianity. The Christians did not have much success anywhere spreading Christianity. In Saint Francis Xavier’s letter on the missions to India in 1549 he discussed his unsuccessful
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reveals that India had extensive cultural‚ economic and political ties with the Southeast Asian Nations. But after Independence‚ this region was overlooked by India. The changed global circumstances in 1990 and India’s ‘Look East policy’ forced India to adapt the New Economic world order i.e. regionalism. A quantum jump in Indo-ASEAN relations came with the effort to forge closer links with the Southeast Asian countries after 1991. The ASEAN-India nexus has grown from sect oral dialogue partnership
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it is today. During the fall semester of world history‚ the main religions that were brought to my attention were Christianity‚ Polytheism‚ Buddhism‚ Hinduism‚ Islam‚ And Confucianism. Hinduism was like an umbrella for the religious ideas in the Asian continent. These ideas go closely to the first Vedic tradition‚but over the years many have added local influences with many other variations. Hindu denominations fall in three main groups: Vaishnavaism‚ which is the worship of Krishna and His incarnations;
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