A scientific team in California used unmanned aircraft to measure heat in the atmosphere above the Indian Ocean, a part of Asia often blanketed by brown clouds of man-made pollution.

在加利福尼亚州的一支科学考察队利用无人驾驶的航空器来测量印度洋上空大气层中的热度。亚洲的这一部分常常被人为污染所形成的褐色云层所笼罩。

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The roar from this Dickensian forge in the port of Penang is part of a greater reverberation across Asia.

槟榔屿港的这家类似狄更斯式的熔炉里传来的轰鸣声，是整个亚洲更大反响的一部分。

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AstraZeneca, a big British drugs firm, recently announced that it will start shifting manufacturing operations to Asia as part of a cost-cuttingdrive.

阿斯利康（一家英国的大型制药公司）最近宣布作为削减成本的手段之一，它开始将生产转移到亚洲。

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Modern bhangra music is a huge part of pop culture in South Asia.

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He arrived in Naypyidaw from Laos, as part of a five-nation tour of Asia as the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

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"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

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"We believe a likely fall in inflation in a large part of Asia and an improvement in growth bode well for the performance of the region's equity markets and currencies against the U.S. dollar, " he said.

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Minus a few obvious differences, it could have been a scene from another part of Asia.

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In fact, this is part of a larger Asia boom for women in senior roles.

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