Now, however, thanks to their countries' economic woes, fewer parents in South Korea, as well as in other parts of East Asia and in South-East Asia, can afford the fees.
Once again, the seven FEI zones of the world come into play: North-West Europe, South-West Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and South-East Asia and Oceania.
But for strategists grappling with the diminished safety of the world's seas off east Africa and in other perilous spots such as South-East Asia and the waters of Nigeria figuring out a sensible and workable division of labour between navies and private firms is not easy.
Networks of exiles dominate trade in many parts of the world: the Indians in east Africa and parts of the Caribbean, the Chinese in South-East Asia, and so on.
Youth unemployment is expected to rise in emerging economies in Eastern Europe, East and South-East Asia and the Middle East, according to the report.
As the climate has worsened in Japan, they have simply moved more of their business offshore: first, following the sex-tourists, to the Philippines and the rest of South-East Asia, and more recently to Latin America and even Europe.
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Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.
Remember the crises that have afflicted financially liberalised economies such as Mexico, Russia, Argentina and some in South-East Asia, and their caution is easy to understand.
These are Indo-European, Bantu, Austronesian (from South-East Asia and the Pacific) and Uto-Aztecan (the native vernaculars of the Americas).
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Hyundai of South Korea plans an ultra-low-cost car for South-East Asia and Fiat is hooking up with India's Tata.
Acupuncture and moxibustion are forms of traditional Chinese medicine widely practised in China and also found in regions of south-east Asia, Europe and the Americas.
They found that resistance to this drug could be traced back to the 1950s and to specific events in south-east Asia, South America and Papua New Guinea.
Now Thailand and the Philippines count themselves as South-East Asia's most open and thriving democracies.
Thailand and the Philippines (see article) are now emerging as the most lively democracies in South-East Asia, and in the process becoming more outspoken in regional affairs.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
Europe and South-East Asia are regions where Apple is particularly vulnerable to cheap Samsung models.
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Until now, the economic troubles of East and South-East Asia have looked dramatic but not serious.
For it points to a disturbing resemblance between the car industries in South America and South-East Asia.
They left Tuvalu on Wednesday, ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.
Much of the gap is attributable to the activities of overseas Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South-East Asia and America.
Shrimp farmers are likely to complain about imports from South-East Asia and Mexico.
The structure of industry in Japan has changed as Japanese companies have moved production to Europe, America and South-East Asia.
Based on this information, I would avoid companies that sell into or rely on Europe and South-East Asia for their business.
More than 55, 000 people are thought to die from rabies each year, with most cases occurring in south and south-east Asia.
Overall, the investment rate in East and South-East Asia is now close to the average in Japan, a much richer country.
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America's vigorous recovery and China's unbridled expansion have made it easy for Latin America and South-East Asia to export their goods.
Talisman Energy continues to operate independently in North America and South-East Asia.
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Siam Makro could expand outside of Thailand into China and South-East Asia.
Huge improvements were registered not only in China but also in South-East Asia and north Africa, where dependency ratios fell by 40 points.
It is the sort of bulge in the numbers of people in productive age groups that produced explosive growth in China and South-East Asia.
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