Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of the Asia's remaining colonies, decolonisation was intercepted by the Cold War ; and South East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia remained embedded in a world economic, financial, and military system in which the great powers compete to extend their influence.

Within months of the 1991 Paris Agreements, Vietnam established diplomatic and economic relations with Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) member states and also with most countries of Western Europe and Asia's Far East.

* CSF Group, South East Asia's Largest Carrier Neutral High-End Purpose Built Data Center

He argued that East Asia's economic growth had historically been the result of increasing the level of investment in capital.

Not even Japan had modernized at the rate of Joseon, and not with as many projects going on at once, a precursor to modern Korea as one of East Asia's Tigers in rapid development into a first class nation during the 1960s-1980s.

San Miguel's beer exports grew by 150 percent from 1985 to 1989 alone, and the brand was soon exported to 24 countries, including all of Asia's key markets as well as the United States, Australia, and the Middle East.

* July 15-Northwest Airlines launches the first commercial passenger service from the U. S. A. to Asia's Far East along the North Pacific route with Douglas DC-4 The Manila, linking Minneapolis / St.

Lion dance has spread across the world courtesy of the local Chinese community and immigrant settlers located at different Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and Australia continents and countries worldwide including South East Asia's Malaysia.

The Ikano Power Centre ( now renamed as IPC Shopping Centre in 2011 ) houses South East Asia's largest IKEA Swedish furniture store.

Asia's largest cinnamon estate producing cinnamon spice established by Lord Brown of British East India company in the year CE 1767 is located at Anjarakandy in Kannur district

Maritime Southeast Asia's music is related to other musical genres of South-East and East Asia.

Timor-Leste's participation in South East Asia's premier international football event in 2004 was announced after an Asian Football Confederation council meeting in Petaling Jaya.

Kota Gelanggi is an archaeological site reported in 2005 as potentially the first capital of the ancient Empire of Srivijaya and dating to around 650 – 900 and one of the oldest pre-Islamic Kingdoms on South East Asia's Malay Peninsula.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Europe had not yet dominated in the world economy on account of the fact that its military did not match that of Asia's or of the Middle East.

East Asia's racing culture is relatively young, but it already has its own Formula BMW championship and a Formula Three series.

This book invites the reader to consider East Asia's non-economic " miracle ": its allegedly unusually low rates of crime, divorce, drug abuse, and other social problems.

He helped form the Pacific Trading Company, a joint Jewish-Japanese endeavor, and met with many of East Asia's top Jewish leaders, both religious and financial.

Nickelodeon South East Asia's website describes Rocko as " generally very polite and sometimes shy " and that provocation can lead Rocko to become " determined and forceful.

You can find South East Asia's biggest solar power station in Kota Marudu.

* Animax East Asia's page for Ghosts at School

East Asia's would approach. 94 or fairly close to the living standards of the western nations such as the EU and the US This would mean that it would be rather difficult to determine the difference in wealth of the two.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

Tourism, a developing sector, may be held back by the current financial difficulties in East Asia.

Comoros thus cultivated relations with various nations, both East and West, seeking to increase trade and obtain financial assistance.

Following severe financial difficulties of the British East Africa Company, the British government on July 1, 1895 established direct rule through the East African Protectorate, subsequently opening ( 1902 ) the fertile highlands to white settlers.

All of them were subject to the Grand Master, appointed for life, who oversaw both the Order's military efforts in the East and their financial holdings in the West.

Because of its financial power and diversity, Lebanon was known in its heyday as the " Switzerland of the East ".

They were marked by severe tension with the West ( especially the United States, although relations were normalized in the early 21st century prior to the Libyan civil war ) and by Gaddafi's activist policies in the Middle East and Africa, including his financial and military support for numerous paramilitary and rebel groups.

In the 20th century, Bahrain's oil wealth helped spur fast growth and in the 1990s a concerted diversification effort led to expansion in other industries and helped transform Manama into an important financial hub in the Middle East.

After German reunification in 1990, it was confirmed that the RAF had received financial and logistic support from the Stasi, the security and intelligence organization of East Germany, which had given several members shelter and new identities.

Shanghai was then the most important financial center in the Far East.

Numerous other game developers tried to imitate the financial successes of Karate Champ, Yie Ar Kung-Fu and The Way of the Exploding Fist with similar games ; Data East took unsuccessful legal action against Epyx over the computer game International Karate.

Numerous other game developers tried to imitate Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombats financial success with similar games ; Capcom USA took unsuccessful legal action against Data East Corp. over the arcade game Fighter's History.

Barak was prepared to offer the entire Gaza Strip, a Palestinian capital in a part of East Jerusalem, 73 % of the West Bank ( excluding eastern Jerusalem ) raising to 90 – 94 % after 10 – 25 years, and financial reparations for Palestinian refugees for peace.

Wall Street is the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan.

Bryan then defended the right of silver supporters to make their argument against opposition from gold men, who were associated with financial interests, especially in the East.

High external debt also caused increasing problems as financial crises affecting other countries ( the Tequila Crisis in Mexico, the East Asian financial crisis, the Russian financial crisis in 1998 ) led to higher interest rates for Argentina as well.

However on the other hand, Newcastle West End were in serious financial trouble and approached East End with a view to a take over.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

In the Middle East, the Suez crisis of 1956 as well as the preceding crisis in Iran, demonstrated the sharp upsurge of nationalism, which was as assertive of the region's social and economic aspirations as of its political independence.

The Soviet Union, under the reformist leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, refused to intervene on the basis of his policy to de-escalate the Cold War and let East Germany resolve its own crisis.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

The precarious international situation reached a crisis point in June 1967 when the Six Day War flared in the Middle East and six days later China tested its first H-bomb.

The boom ended with the 1997 / 98 East Asian Economic crisis putting Jakarta at the center of violence, protest, and political maneuvering.

* 1975-Jimmy Carter speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle East.

This is an " SF satire on the Middle East crisis and the War on Terrorism, and concerns what happens when the liberal Western Galactic Empire relocates the oppressed Minervan sect to their ancient homeland of Kennewick, Washington, in the midst of a US ruled by Christian fundamentalist fanatics .".

Honecker faced a growing crisis at home, with massive anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig and other East German cities.

Facing an economic crisis, Japan's ruling corporate cabal decides to take military action against the U. S. Along with China and India, Japan plots to curtail the American presence in the Pacific and re-establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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* Financial crisis hits East and Southeast Asia in 1997 and 1998 after a long period of phenomenal economic development, which continues by 1999.

On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".

Commodus's assassination led to a succession crisis, the so-called Year of the Five Emperors, which culminated in the ascension of a soldier-emperor, Septimius Severus, who, despite giving the Empire a peaceful reign, was accused by Gibbon of catalysing the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of economic, political and military crisis that, together with the Germanic invasions and the rise of the Sassanid Persian Empire in the East, almost led the Empire to collapse.

On June 19, 1967 President Johnson declared the five principles, including land for peace, that he believed comprised the components of any United Nations settlement of the Middle East crisis.

On July 12, 1967 the Secretary of State announced that the U. S. position on the Near East crisis was outlined in the President's statement of June 19 and that it provided the basis for a just and equitable settlement between the Arab states and Israel.

The economy was soon in turmoil again, with the Middle East crisis between Egypt and Israel raising oil prices.