More important, China is seeking to counter what it sees as American dominance in South-East Asia.
Finds from Java suggest early humans reached South-East Asia by 1.6 million years ago.
He said that Rohingyas first started going on boats to south-east Asia in the 1990s.
The airport at Reggio could almost be in one of the poorer parts of South-East Asia.
Now Thailand and the Philippines count themselves as South-East Asia's most open and thriving democracies.
When they returned to South-East Asia, they set up schools of their own with similar agendas.
Like Indonesia, South-East Asia as a whole is entering a period of confusion, fear and hope.
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But ASEAN has helped South-East Asia, sandwiched between India and China, punch above its weight.
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The Bali bombing turned South-East Asia into a new front in the international war on terrorism.
Singapore is the youngest, richest, smallest (Brunei aside) and most westernised country in South-East Asia.
The same factors apply in the rest of South-East Asia, but with the opposite effects.
Perhaps but the diplomatic price Taiwan might exact could become South-East Asia's problem, and China's too.
Until now, the economic troubles of East and South-East Asia have looked dramatic but not serious.
Most onlookers still hold little faith that South-East Asia's capital markets will see swift reforms.
They do not think the trouble in South-East Asia has yet come to an end.
Before Asia's economic slump in 1997, Indonesia had become Australia's second-biggest export market in South-East Asia.
America has long considered Indonesia an important pillar of its security arrangements in South-East Asia.
Fundamentalism remains a force in South-East Asia, and lawless Cambodia is no safe haven.
It is the sound of the motherland for Minnan people in China and throughout South-East Asia.
He concluded that the black rat originated in South-East Asia about 1m years ago.
To redress the balance, South-East Asia needs to be seen to be very much cleaner.
If so, it raises the possibility that hominids colonised South-East Asia at least two million years ago.
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EU's trade commissioner, has touted the idea around South-East Asia, having previously promoted it in North America.
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VIETNAM, like most countries in South-East Asia, has expressed its opposition to an American war against Iraq.
As a regional economist put it, Vietnam is the hottest thing in South-East Asia at the moment.
For it points to a disturbing resemblance between the car industries in South America and South-East Asia.
Yet results are getting worse, both in absolute terms and relative to other countries in South-East Asia.
The greatest headwind comes from a banking crisis that could make South-East Asia's look like a gentle breeze.
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