It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Bornean Clouded Leopard, the Hose's Civet and the Dayak Fruit Bat.

Many Asian Elephant, Gaur, Sambar, vulnerable Sloth Bears, Leopard, tiger and Wild Boars dwell in the forests of Karnataka.

Leopard cats are the most widely distributed Asian small cats.

* Asian Leopard Lacewing ( Cethosia cyane ).

The sanctuary also protects Asian Buffalo, Leopard, Wild bear, civet, various reptiles and some 2000 migratory birds.

Other large mammals found in the park are: Black Naped or Indian Hare, Muntjac ( Barking Deer ), Porcupine, Asian Palm Civet, Chevrotain ( Mouse Deer ), Hanuman or Gray Langur, Indian Flying-fox, Sambar Deer and Leopard.

* The Asian Leopard Cat, particularly amongst breeders of Bengal Cats

African Elephant, African Hunting Dog, Agouti, American Bison, Anoa, Asiatic Wild Dog, Axis Deer, Banteng, Barasingha, Barbary Lion, Bengal Tiger, Black-Footed Cat, Black and Gold Howler Monkey, Black and White Colobus Monkey, Black Rhinoceros, Black-capped Capuchin Monkey, Blackbuck, Bongo, Brown Hyena, Bush Dog, Canadian Timber Wolf, Caracal, Cheetah, Clouded Leopard, De Brazza's Monkey, Defassa Waterbuck, Diana Monkey, Drill, European Bison, Fishing Cat, Grants Zebra, Grevy's Zebra, Golden-bellied Mangabey, Hog Deer, Iberian Wolf, Indian Desert Cat, Javan Langur, Malayan Tapir, Margay, Meerkat, Moloch Gibbon, Nilgai, Ocelot, Ostrich, Pallas Cat, Przewalski Horse, Red Lechwe, Red Panda, Red River Hog, Ring-Tailed Coati, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Roan Antelope, Rothschild Giraffe, Rusty-Spotted Cat Samango, Sambar, Scottish Wildcat, Siamang gibbon, Siberian Lynx, Siberian Tiger, Snow Leopard, Wild Asian Water buffalo, Western Lowland Gorilla, Wildebeest,

Among the mammal species living in Thung Yai are Lar Gibbon ( Hylobates lar ), various species of macaque ( Macaca ) und lutung ( Trachypithecus ), Tiger ( Panthera tigris ), Leopard ( Panthera pardus ), Clouded Leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa ), Sun Bear ( Helarctos malayanus ) and Asian Black Bear ( Ursus thibetanus ), Malayan Tapir ( Tapirus indicus ), Asian Elephant ( Elephas maximus ), Gaur ( Bos gaurus ), Hog Deer ( Cervus porcinus ), Sambar ( Rusa unicolor ), Fea's Muntjac ( Muntiacus feae ) und Sumatran Serow ( Capricornis sumatraensis ) as well as many bat species probably including Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat ( Craseonycteris thonglongyai ).

He has also advocated investing in certain smaller Asian frontier markets such as Sri Lanka and Cambodia, and currently serves as an Advisor to Leopard Capital ’ s Leopard Sri Lanka Fund.

Specialist speech programmes in the evening were aimed at London's communities: Asian, Afro-Caribbean, Jewish, Gay and Irish.

** South East Asian Mathematical Society ( SEAMS )

* Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology

Anime Club, Chemistry Club, Chinese Dragon Dance Team, Colleges Against Cancer / Relay for Life, College Democrats, College Republicans, Comic Book Club, East Asian Studies Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Habitat for Humanity, March of Dimes, Mock Trial, New York Times Discussion Group, Outdoors Club, Pep Band, Pocket Lint Improvisational Comedy, POWER ( Parliament of the Wittenberg Environmental Revolution ), Pre-Health Club, Sailing Club, Crew, Society of Physics Students, Student Global AIDS Campaign, Student Senate, Swing Dance Club, Union Board, University Communications, Wittenberg Art League, Wittenberg Role-Playing Guild, Wittenberg Rugby, Wittenberg Student Dance Company ( WSDC ), WUSO radio station, WittMen Crew A Capella, Student newspaper The Torch, Wittenberg Film Club, Diversity Club, Planned Parenthood, and WUSS ( Wittenberg University Speleological Society — The Caving Club ), Younglife.

* Video: Panel Discussion on ' Asian Americans Changing the Landscape ' Asia Society, New York, May 19, 2010

Major options include: African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Chemistry-Biochemistry, five options in Classics, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, Economics, Economics-Mathematics, English, Environmental Studies ( Policy ), Environmental Studies ( Science ), French Studies, Geology, Geoscience, German Studies, Government, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Language and Culture, Science, Technology, and Society, Sociology, Spanish, Theater and Dance, and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies.

* Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London ( 1955 )

Republic of Korea and U. S. A .: Co-Published by The Royal Asiatic Society and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Asian Pacific Council on Contraception, Centro Latinamericano Salud y Mujer, European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health, German Foundation for World Population, International Federation of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Marie Stopes International, Population Services International, The Population Council,

Augsburg students have opportunities for involvement in more than 50 clubs and organizations, including student academic societies, publications, Student Government, Augsburg Business Organization, Augsburg Asian Student Association, Campus Ministry, Augsburg College Pre-law Society, Pan-Afrikan and Pan-Asian Student Union, forensics, cheerleading, Amnesty International, Intertribal Student Union and the Hispanic / Latino Student Association.

He has been the Member of Board of the International Solar Energy Society ( 1991 – 1997 ), World Resources Institute Council ( 1992 ), while Chairman of the World Energy Council ( 1993 – 1995 ), President and then Chairman of the International Association for Energy Economics ( 1988 – 1990 ), and the President of the Asian Energy Institute ( Since 1992 ).

* Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, South Asian river dolphin: Platanista gangetica

Minor concentrations are available in American Studies, Archeology, Arts Administration and Museology, Asian Studies, Business, Society, and Culture, Dance, European Studies, Holocaust Studies, Humanities, Italian, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Public Health, Russian, Western Heritage, Women's and Gender Studies, and Writing.

Western spiritual seekers were attracted to what they saw as the exotic and mystical tone of the Asian traditions, and created esoteric societies such as the Theosophical Society of H. P.

Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

* Lawrence of Arabia Medal, Royal Central Asian Society, RCAS 1955

* Yate, Arthur C, The Future of Rhodes, article in the Journal of the Central Asian Society Vol.

I, 1914 Part II, The Central Asian Society, London 1914.

The Royal Society for Asian Affairs is a learned society based in the United Kingdom, founded in 1901 to " promote greater knowledge and understanding of Central Asia and surrounding countries ".

The Journal of the Society " Asian Affairs " is published three times a year and occupies a respected place in the current literature on Asia.

* Royal Society for Asian Affairs website

* Royal Society for Asian Affairs, a learned society based in the United Kingdom

The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Unlike many anime titles, viewers weren ’ t expected to have knowledge of Asian culture — character names, signs, and the like were primarily in English to begin with — or have seen any other anime series prior.

His seemingly inapt and never-explained Asian names — Kwan, Chen — spoof oddities of casting, as when a very British actor portrays a very British character with an utterly French name like Jean-Luc Picard ).

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

Four South Asian nations — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka — are in the top ten list of Tokyo's aid recipients worldwide.

Dixit is a Goodwill Ambassador and a patron for " Emeralds for Elephants " — a charity project for the conservation of Asian Elephants and other endangered species.

The Parni, a nomadic Central Asian tribe, invaded Parthia in the middle of the 3rd century BCE, drove away its Greek satraps — who had just then proclaimed independence from the Seleucids — and annexed much of the Indus region, thus founding an Arsacids dynasty of Scythian or Bactrian origin.

In Chinese astronomy and other East Asian calendars, winter is taken to commence on or around 7 November, with the Jiéqì ( known as 立冬 lì dōng — literally, " establishment of winter ").

* Year 78 — the beginning of the Saka Era used by South Asian calendars.

In the United Kingdom and the Anglophone world, nigger denoted the dark-skinned ( non-white ) African and Asian ( i. e., from India or nearby ) peoples colonized into the British Empire, and " dark-skinned foreigners " — in general.

Taxonomists disagree whether or not the modern Pygmy Hippopotamus is a member of Hexaprotodon — an apparently paraphyletic genus also embracing many extinct Asian hippopotamuses that is more closely related to Hippopotamus, or Choeropsis — an older and basal genus.

* c. 1600 BC: Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos — see History of ancient Israel and Judah.

* Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos — see History of ancient Israel and Judah.

* — South and Southeast Asian Scripts

Other areas — including recognition of hand printing, cursive handwriting, and printed text in other scripts ( especially those East Asian language characters which have many strokes for a single character )— are still the subject of active research.

* Banyan ( Asia ) — named for the banyan tree, this column was established in April 2009 and focuses on various issues across the Asian continent, and is written by Dominic Ziegler.

Apart from some relatively minor cultural influences, the most significant lasting effects of the Portuguese presence was the disruption and reorganisation of the Southeast Asian trade, and in eastern Indonesia — including Maluku — the introduction of Christianity.