`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

Austro-Asiatic languages have a disjunct distribution across India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia, separated by regions where other languages are spoken.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.

In Southeast Asian countries where Muslim Malay peoples live, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of kris daggers.

The Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia in a position that has led to its becoming a cultural crossroads, a place where Malays, Arabs, Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, Japanese and others have interacted to forge a unique cultural and racial blend.

Coconut vinegar, made from fermented coconut water, is used extensively in Southeast Asian cuisine ( particularly in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, major producers, where it is called suka ng niyog or vinakiri ), as well as in some cuisines of India, especially Goan cuisine.

Fi Sabillillah is the most prominent asnaf in Southeast Asian Muslim societies, where it broadly construed to include funding missionary work, Quranic schools and anything else that serves the community ( ummah ) in-general.

The impact of globalization on the think tank movement is most evident in regions such as Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and parts of Southeast Asia, where there was a concerted effort by the international community to support the creation of independent public policy research organizations.

* In the upcoming film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is getting into a double deal by becoming a CIA ’ s intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.

Black panthers in the American Southeast feature prominently in Choctaw folklore where, along with the owl, they are often thought to symbolize Death.

Porcupines are occasionally eaten in western culture, but are very popular in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, where the prominent use of them as a food source has contributed to significant declines in their populations.

Neem is used in parts of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, Laos ( where it is called kadao ), Thailand ( where it is known as sadao or sdao ), Myanmar ( where it is known as tamar ) and Vietnam ( where it is known as s? u dâu and is used to cook the salad g? i s? u dâu ).

The threat to reef health is particularly strong in Southeast Asia, where 80 % of reefs are endangered.

Many Hokkien chose to work in Southeast Asia ( where they had earlier links starting from the Ming era ), as did the Cantonese.

Rambutan trees grow naturally in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines ( where it is also called " laguan "), and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, although its precise natural distribution is unknown.

It is one of the best known fruits of Southeast Asia and is also widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics including Africa, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka ; it is also produced in Ecuador where it is known as " achotillo " and on the island of Puerto Rico .. Thailand is the largest producer from Surat Thani Province Thailand.

It is proximal to the climatic transition zone where the subtropical Southeast blends with and then eventually changes to a humid continental climate further north ( roughly just beyond Cincinnati, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana ).

The term was later adapted by Tai-speaking groups in Southeast Asia where it took on especially insulting associations for Hmong people despite its official status.

Within the United States, infection is rare overall but may be common in the rural Southeast, where 2. 2 million people are thought to be infected.

Soy sauce is a traditional ingredient in East and Southeast Asian cuisines, where it is used in cooking and as a condiment.

In 1893 Gauguin returned to France, where he painted Mahana No Atua (" Day of the God "; 1894 ) which depicted Tahitian religion, even though the idol in the center, Hina, is derived more from Indian and Southeast Asian archetypes.

Their leaders were known as the diana in the Southeast and andriana or raondriana in the Center and the West

The leaders of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization | SEATO nations in front of the Congress Building in Manila, Philippines | Manila, hosted by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on October 24, 1966.

The Twins become the leaders of " The People ", a genetically-altered species of superhumans that were produced by the Southeast Asian Republic / SEAR as super-soldiers, but later rebelled.

The year the boy was born, his father and other leaders had signed the Treaty of New Echota, ceding the remainder of Cherokee lands in the Southeast in exchange for Removal to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Zhelev was the initiator and president of the Balkan Political Club, a union of former political leaders from Southeast Europe.

City leaders continued negotiations with Sterling, who said " This is the premier venue in the Southeast.

Although several Southeast Asian leaders such as Malaysia's Prime Minister blamed the Western-dominated International Monetary Fund for the economic problems, many Indonesians took to the streets and blamed Chinese Indonesians who dominated the Indonesian economy for their economic woes.

He is suspected of having led uprisings in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and for kidnapping scientists, businessmen and military leaders, forcing them to reveal their top level secrets.

They were followed by slaves from various other Southeast Asian regions, and political dissidents and Muslim religious leaders who opposed the Dutch presence in what is now Indonesia and were sent into exile.

Moving to California, he became one of the leaders in exporting marijuana from Southeast Asia in the years after the Vietnam War.

At the end of 2005, Proton additionally introduced another variant of the Waja, known as Proton Waja Chancellor, to be used by representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) during the meeting of ASEAN leaders in the KLCC, shortly before its launch in 2006.

Madrsah Aljunied was a leading Islamic religious school which produced many religious leaders of Southeast Asian countries.

PJ is currently one of the leaders of Project Southeast Asia, an initiative of the University of Oxford to expand its range of scholarly expertise on Southeast Asia.

In Hong Kong's cha chaan tengs (" Chinese diner ") and Southeast Asia's kopi tiams (" coffee shop "), macaroni is cooked in water and then washed of starch, and served in clear broth with ham or frankfurter sausages, peas, black mushrooms, and optionally eggs, reminiscent of noodle soup dishes.

Recently, the number of tourists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia has grown dramatically due to the increased popularity of the Korean wave (" hallyu ").

Oxon Hill's two principal shopping centers (" Rivertowne " and the much older " Eastover ") attract neighborhood customers as well as shoppers from nearby Southeast Washington.

McNicoll ( 2006 ) examines the common features behind the striking changes in health and fertility in East and Southeast Asia in the 1960s – 1990s, focusing on seven countries: Taiwan and South Korea (" tiger " economies ), Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia (" second wave " countries ), and China and Vietnam (" market-Leninist " economies ).

Oxon Hill's two principal shopping centers (" Rivertowne ", built about 1985 which includes a K-Mart, Safeway, Staples, Old Navy and Home Depot, and " Eastover ", built about 1955 ) attract neighborhood customers as well as shoppers from nearby Southeast Washington, D. C. Eastover, located at the D. C ./ state line, is a hub of many bus routes, some of them operating 24 hours a day, and has a Prince George's County Police station.

The Lesser Sunda Islands or Nusa Tenggara (" Southeast Islands ") are a group of islands in the southern Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia.

With the escalation in demand these sources have been supplanted since the late 1990s by purpose-built nesting houses, usually reinforced concrete structures following the design of the Southeast Asian shop-house (" rumah toko "/" ruko ").

The last name " Singh " is in fact used by a wider population from Bihar Jharkhand Punjab to Uttar Pradesh and from Kashmir down into Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra to Uttarakhand as well as the far eastern states of Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, and even Bhutan, spanning the entire subcontinent and even reaching Southeast Asia, where in Thailand, as the Chakri Dynasty strove to empower Siam after the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Singh Singhaseni ( 1777 – 1849 ) was a prominent general, and Chao (" Lord ") Racha Wong Singh governed Yasothon, 1815 – 1823.

They are most typically seen in the Midwest (" Tornado Alley ") and Southeast where tornadoes are particularly frequent and the low water table permits underground structures.

Like the Burmans and the Thais, some modern Mons have tried to identify their ethnicity and, specifically this kingdom at Thaton, with the semi-historical kingdom of Suwarnabhumi (" The Golden Land "); today, this claim is contested by many different ethnicities in Southeast Asia, and contradicted by scholars.

While the existence of China was clearly known to Roman cartographers of the time, its geographical position is depicted in Ptolemy's Geographia from c. 150 AD rather vaguely: On the map, China is located beyond the Aurea Chersonesus (" Golden Peninsula "), which refers to the Southeast Asian peninsula.