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.
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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The numbers of people living in poverty is likely to drop sharply in East and South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, with sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind.
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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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.
"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.
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.
Some countries feared this might drag South East Asia into the political and territorial problems of South Asia, particularly the issue of Kashmir.
Until now, the economic troubles of East and South-East Asia have looked dramatic but not serious.
However, the yuan is already emerging as a trade settlement currency in North Asia and South East Asia.
He served as senior trade development representative in the Africa, Near East, South Asia (ANESA) region during the Reagan Administration.
Organised crime in the Middle East, South Asia and the Chinese diaspora has long relied on informal money transfer networks.
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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Both had been vying for the same seat on the International Atomic Energy Agency board representing the Middle East and South Asia (Mesa) group.
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.
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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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.
It is now all over East and South-East Asia, was launched in India last autumn and, in August, will be rolled out all over Latin America.
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.
You live at the crossroads of East and South Asia.
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India's economic ties with East and South-East Asia fall short.
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 saving surplus in East and South-East Asia is the legacy of a bust both more recent and more spectacular than the 1970s oil shocks: the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98.
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And because of the importance of building stability and countering violent extremism in the Middle East and South Asia, we are increasing the number of Foreign Office staff in those regions by 30 per cent.
It is clear also that there has been a big exchange of pigeons between the Middle East and South Asia, and India in particular - the likely consequence of historic trading connections between the two regions.
By the Obama administration's practice and admonition, we are not to see the ideological trail from the Middle East to South Asia that has put the world of Islam and its fragile modernism in great peril.
But their withdrawal in early May exposed the weaknesses of the UN force, which was under-resourced and comprised troops, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, with little experience of working together or of such operations.
Then in the 1970s and 1980s Islamic terrorist groups (Al Jihad and Gamaa Islamiya in Egypt, Front for National Salvation (FIS) in Algeria etc.) began appearing in the Middle East and South Asia, especially after the beginning of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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But surely there is a more interesting possibility, which she does not consider: that Western misbehaviour, starting with Anglo-French colonial adventures in the Middle East and South Asia, reinforced some of the worst features of Islamic societies creating a vicious circle which has yet to be broken.
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