From a speech by Martin Indyk, Special Assistant to the President for Near East and South Asian Affairs, 20 May 1993.
Human traffickers often lure illegal job seekers with promises of lucrative employment in Malaysia, Thailand and other South East Asian nations and take them in overloaded boats.
Human traffickers often lure illegal job seekers with promises of lucrative employment in Malaysia, Thailand and other South East Asian nations and take them in overloaded boats, our correspondent adds.
Nor in all likelihood are several other South-East Asian currencies and perhaps the South Korean won.
Efforts by India and South-East Asian countries to reduce that dependence seem forlorn, despite India's historic, cultural and religious ties, and despite Myanmar's membership of the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
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Its acid-bright houses are home to the city's Cape Malay community - descendants of people from India, Malaysia and other South East Asian countries who settled the area as early as the 17th century - and the cuisine is a spicy, aromatic, and sometimes strange, mix of Asian, European and Mediterranean flavours.
The chain boasts operations in 12 Eastern European and South East Asian countries.
Creditors of the firm, whose full name was Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corporation, included 494 firms, many of them investors from the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland and South East Asian countries.
There will be a second wing for South, South-East and West Asian communities.
There, islands in the South China Sea, beneath which oil and gas are thought to lie, are subject to several disputes involving China and South-East Asian neighbours.
However, Interpol's Secretary General Ronald Noble defended Singapore and south-east Asian countries from the charge that they had allowed the region to become a hub for international match-fixing.
Lodhi liked the possibility of Asia: The middle class in South and East Asian economies accounted for 1.4% of the global population and 2.1% of global income in 2000.
After a few weeks a tripartite mechanism involving the regime, the United Nations and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional block, was established and eased barriers such as the visas aid workers need, and the permits required to import equipment.
Some 250 monitors from the European Union and five South-East Asian nations will help ensure this continues.
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This workshop will continue to develop one Ocean Forecasting System with an initial focus on the South East Asian Waters and adjacent areas.
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News of more deaths from the disease in Indonesia helped push stockmarkets down in Europe this week, and rattled south-east Asian currency markets.
China, despite its fulminations, appeared to worry that a show of force risked damaging its image and causing South-East Asian countries to turn even more to America for security.
Their influence extends to nearby provinces and beyond to South-East Asian countries.
It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
That should be reinforced by Europe, America and Indonesia's South-East Asian partners.
It grouped five South-East Asian countries (and two Chinese provinces) with the aim of building a transport and energy infrastructure shared by all.
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And Indonesian textile firms are lobbying against the full implementation from next year of the free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
In terms of the South China Sea and the East Asian Summit, again, I would leave that to our President and to our Secretary of State to discuss with the members there.
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In the month leading up to the Shangri-La Dialogue, General Liang had visited Washington, DC (the first Chinese defence minister to do so in nine years) and attended a meeting of South-East Asian defence ministers in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.
For milk tea-flavoured popcorn, a popular sweet, South-East Asian fusion of tea and milkshake that also goes by the name of bubble tea, you will have to head to the nearby Tokyo DisneySea, a separate park with water slides and watery rides.
It may also bolster the efforts of other South-East Asian leaders to combat terrorism and co-operate more closely with one another.
Unlike Western economies, South - East Asian economies such as India and China still heavily rely on coal for meeting their power requirements.
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The US has also bolstered its support for its East Asian allies, most notably South Korea and Japan amid maritime rivalries with China in the Pacific.
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