"I'm hoping this project can bring China and India closer together, two great countries, representing two great civilisations of East Asia and South Asia, " said Mr Yeo.
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.
Made up of six regional disease surveillance networks in the Middle East, Southern and East Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe (each of which are in turn partnerships of several national health ministries), CORDS has the potential to speed best practices and help innovate rapid disease detection and response.
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.
Lorises, which are nocturnal and carnivorous primates, are native to parts of South Asia and South East Asia, and live in tropical forest areas.
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The danger, it is now assumed, lies in what Pentagon officials call an "arc of instability" that runs through the Caribbean Rim, Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea.
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While the slender loris is extremely rare, other types of loris thrive in parts of South Asia and South East Asia.
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Anyhow, execution of successive IGCP projects (321, 411, 516) targeted at geological evolution of (mainly East and South) Asia and other related researches have contributed much in working out more constraints on the evolution of the Tethys and to provide more data for interpretation.
Some countries feared this might drag South East Asia into the political and territorial problems of South Asia, particularly the issue of Kashmir.
They left Tuvalu on Wednesday, ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.
As commander of Central Command, Petraeus will oversee U.S. military objectives and activities in a broad swath of the Middle East and Central and South Asia.
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.
Data traffic is growing even faster, up 95% a year in both peak and average terms in the Middle East, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
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.
Though the network of middlemen and companies involved spans Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South Africa, Pakistan's nuclear suspects are thought to have been at the centre of it.
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.
However, the yuan is already emerging as a trade settlement currency in North Asia and South East Asia.
Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.
Another problem is the people of Afghanistan, said Frank Anderson, president of the Middle East Policy Council and former chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia division.
The World Bank reports that the majority of reforms have taken place in rich countries: since 2004 59% of them have improved their systems compared with 33% of poorer countries in East Asia, 22% in Latin America, 16% in the Middle East and 13% in South Asia.
South Asia and East Asia may be the worst affected regions, but substantive contamination has been found in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and the United States.
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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.
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.
Under Hal Kvisle, who started as chief executive in September, Talisman is taking a more conservative financial approach and will focus on three core areas - the Americas, South East Asia and the North Sea.
Coming as such disengagement does - at the very moment that dangers to those interests in regions from the Middle East to North Africa to Central, South and East Asia to the Western hemisphere, the administration must be held accountable for creating (whether intentionally or simply as a practical matter) dangerous vacuums of power.
Child soldiers have been used by armed groups in recent and ongoing conflicts in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America.
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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They were talking about people living in countries in Africa, south Asia, east Asia, and Latin America.
Organised crime in the Middle East, South Asia and the Chinese diaspora has long relied on informal money transfer networks.
Both had been vying for the same seat on the International Atomic Energy Agency board representing the Middle East and South Asia (Mesa) group.
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