But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground??

His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

Richard was a solitary student in New York and acquired, in his remoteness, a thorough if bookish knowledge of Asian lore, literature, life, politics and history.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century " in the " Arts, Literature, and Culture " category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as " one of the people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years ".

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

The Franciscan missionary, William of Rubruck, in his work on Asian customs, declares that everything he had heard from Andrew on the subject was fully borne out by his own personal observations.

There was also perhaps a feeling that establishing long-term security for the Asian Greeks would prove impossible.

Between June and August 2007, the first east-west crossing of the full new Asian Highway was achieved by Britons Richard Meredith and Phil Colley driving a V8 Vantage.

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The first co-ed south Asian a cappella was Anokha, from the University of Maryland, formed in 2001.

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

Brunei recognised Bangladesh quickly with other Southeast Asian countries and Bangladesh established residential Diplomatic mission in 1985, although it was closed down from 1988 to 1997 due to financial constraints.

In 1400, the Central Asian warlord Timur had succeeded in rousing the local Turkic beyliks that had been vassals of the Ottomans to join him in his attack on Bayezid, who was considered one of the most powerful rulers in the Muslim world during that period.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

In the nineteenth century, the balalaika evolved into a triangular instrument with a neck that was substantially shorter than that of its Asian counterparts.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 75 % White, 17. 93 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 2. 97 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 58 % from other races, and 2. 42 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

The manufacturer also hoped to increase exports ( Unilever UK & Ireland Export ) to Asian countries such as Malaysia, a primarily Muslim country where the government was becoming restrictive regarding non-halal meat.

In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

Columbus, who was searching for a route to India, believed the island to be a peninsula of the Asian mainland.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

The racial makeup of the city was 66. 60 % White, 11. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 15. 10 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 2. 10 % from other races, and 4. 30 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 8 % White, 2. 2 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 3. 4 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from some other race, and 1. 8 % from two or more races.

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.

The past five years have seen rapid growth in the contribution of Asian nations to the global fluid and powdered milk manufacturing industry, which in 2008 accounted for more than 30 % of production, while China alone accounts for more than 10 % of both production and consumption in the global fruit and vegetable processing and preserving industry.

However, after the Revenge of the Nerds movie franchise ( with multicultural nerds ), and the introduction of the Steve Urkel character on the television series Family Matters, nerds have been seen in all races and colors as well as more recently being a frequent young Asian or Indian male stereotype in North America.

In many East Asian cultures, a simple bow from the waist ( rei in Japanese, panbae in Korean ) is used, with many regional variations seen.

Although broccoli is often used in Asian restaurants in the west in phat thai and rat na, it was never actually used in any traditional Thai food in Thailand and is still rarely seen in Thailand.

Though Genghis was at first seen as a scourge of Christianity's enemies, he proved to be surprisingly tolerant of religious faiths among those subjects that did not resist the empire, and was the first East Asian ruler to invite clerics from three major religions ( Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism ) to a symposium so that he might learn more about their beliefs.

Asian writers state that one of the Buyid ( Buwaihid ) sultans in the 10th century of the Flight constructed the great cisterns, which may yet be seen.

Traits outside of the model minority mold can be seen as negative character flaws for Asian Americans despite those very same traits being positive for the general American majority ( e. g., risk taking, confidence, empowered ).

When divided up by ethnicity, it can be seen that the economic and academic successes supposedly enjoyed by Asian Americans are concentrated into a few ethnic groups.

King cobras are generally larger than other cobras, and the stripe on the neck is like the symbol "^" instead of a double or single eye shape that may be seen in most of the other Asian cobras.

In short, although he called for overseas expansion as, among other reasons, a way to relief the increasing population pressures in the Japanese mainland, he had seen this in an harmonized with the other Yellow People nations ' interests program, in a racist-oriented way of liberation and unification of the Asian people rather than a nationalistic way of occupation in a Western-like colonial fashion.

The events flowing from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 had seen not only the fulfillment of many domestic and foreign economic and political objectives — without Japan suffering the colonial fate of other Asian nations — but also a new intellectual ferment, in a time when there was worldwide interest in socialism and an urban proletariat was developing.

Even though more Asian contortionists are seen on stage, this does not mean Asians are naturally more flexible than Caucasians.

A 10-year renewal program has already seen the creation of Asia Trail, a series of habitats for seven Asian species, including sloth bears, red pandas, and clouded leopards.

Pakistan has seen a rise in the values of dowries in recent decades, as in other South Asian countries, although to a lesser extent.

That intervention, which was heavily grounded in the Washington Consensus, was hailed at the time for stopping the " Asian Contagion " but eventually the program came to be seen more skeptically.

The Garden is known for its bonsai growing, which can be seen all year round, but is highlighted during the multiple Asian festivals.

However, it gradually became associated with the efforts of nationalists and militarists within the grand plan of a Pan-Asiatic Co-Prosperity Sphere ( 大東亜 だいとうあ ), and graduates of the university, well versed in Asian languages and cultures, were seen as ideal colonial experts and administrators.

Vagrants have been recorded on oceanic islands, such as Chuuk and Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marianas and Palau ; the bird recorded on Yap on February 25, 1991, was from a continental Asian rather than from a Melanesian population, while the origin of the bird seen on Palau on May 3, 2005 was not clear.

( This is often seen as one of the strong points in mathematics teaching in East Asian countries, where teachers typically devote about half of their time to making connections.

Most Europeans had never seen an Asian before, and the harsh contrast in language and physical appearance probably caused more skepticism than transcontinental immigrants did.

There are however several allelic polymorphic variants of this region, the most common adding another dinucleotide repeat TA to the promoter region, so that it is thus referred to as A ( TA < sub > 7 </ sub >) TAA, being also called UGT1A1 * 28 ; this common variant accounts for about 40 % of alleles in some populations, but is seen less often, approximately 3 % of alleles, in southeast and east Asian people and Pacific Islanders.

In Australia and New Zealand where Ford was seen as a ' local ' brand, the Laser outsold its Mazda twin, but in neighbouring Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, as well as Japan itself, the reverse was the case.

Female Asian elephants usually lack tusks ; if tusks — in that case called " tushes " — are present, they are barely visible, and only seen when they open the mouth.

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