Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

Economic malaise in the 1980s, along with resentment of Soviet oppression, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the associated end of the Cold War, and the democratization and liberalization of the former Eastern bloc countries.

Hoxha's political heir Ramiz Alia oversaw the disintegration of the " Hoxhaist " state during the wider collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the later 1980s.

The authentic idea of unity of the Slavic people was all but gone after World War I when the maxim " Versailles and Trianon have put an end to all Slavisms " and was finally put to rest with the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in late 1980s.

The sport is now popular in Brazil, in Europe ( where especially Italy, the Netherlands, and countries from Eastern Europe have been major forces since the late 1980s ), in Russia, and in other countries including China and the rest of Asia, as well as in the United States.

Bulgaria's economic advancement during the era came to an end in the 1980s, and the collapse of the Communist system in Eastern Europe marked a turning point for the country's development.

The experiences of dollarization in countries with weak economies and currencies ( for example Israel in the 1980s, Eastern Europe and countries in the period immediately after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, or South American countries throughout the late 20th and early 21st century ) may be seen as Gresham's Law operating in its reverse form ( Guidotti & Rodriguez, 1992 ), since in general the dollar has not been legal tender in such situations, and in some cases its use has been illegal.

In addition to Rwandan forces, Laurent Kabila's AFDL ( Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo ) forces were also supported by Ugandan forces, with whom Kagame had trained in the late 1980s, which then invaded Eastern Zaire from the northeast.

Into the 1980s, the Soviet Union experienced a period of economic and political stagnation, and they correspondingly decreased intervention in Eastern Bloc politics.

In the former Soviet Union, Nixies were still being manufactured in volume in the 1980s, so Russian and Eastern European Nixies are still available.

They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth consecutive time ( equaling their streak from 1987 – 1991 )— three short of the NBA record set by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s.

Production of two-stroke cars ended in the 1980s in the West, but Eastern Bloc countries continued until around 1991, with the Trabant and Wartburg in East Germany.

Some Eastern Orthodox Christian rock groups, mostly from Russia and the Soviet Union, started performing in the late 1980s and 1990s.

The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway crossed the north-east part of the parish until the 1980s.

Because of Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, the airport during the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed the presence of many Eastern Bloc airline companies, such as Aeroflot, Czecho-Slovak Airlines, Interflug and LOT Polish Airlines.

During the 1980s many people escaping communism in Eastern block countries were housed in these buildings.

Two other Texas Air Corporation affiliates joined Eastern during the 1980s: Concourse D was also used by Braniff International Airways for Latin American operations up until their shutdown in 1982, and Continental Airlines used gates on the west side of the concourse during the 1980s.

The album featured a mix of folk-punk-pop ditties with humorous lyrics, often simultaneously celebrating and mocking 1980s counterculture, and instrumental tracks featuring ska-beats and Eastern European, Mexican or Spaghetti-Western influenced guitar or violin lines.

In the past the district was linked by a single King's Road, which was notoriously congested during peak hours, this had largely been solved by the constructions of the Island Eastern Corridor, the Island Line within the MTR rapid transit system in the 1980s and it contains the long-historied tram line that stretches from Shau Kei Wan towards other districts near the sea shore.

The ZX Spectrum demo scene was slow to start, but it started to rise in the late 1980s, most noticeably in Eastern Europe.

In the 1980s, Haring opened his first Pop Shop: a store that offered everyone access to his works — which until then could only be found spray-painted on city walls.

* In the 1980s computer game Accolade's Comics the protagonist Steve Keene is offered tickets to the Latverian Ballet.

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.

In the 1980s, economist Peter Bauer offered a competing definition for the term Third World.

In the early 1980s, mail-order subscriber copies of White Dwarf also received a small ( A5, black and white ) companion magazine Black Sun edited by Steve Williams, with contributions from White Dwarf regulars such as Ian Marsh and Games Workshop staff-it offered parodies, extended reviews, humour and gaming news.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

Since the 1980s Macintosh Computers offered text to speech capabilities through The MacinTalk software.

In the latter half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Quantum Link online service for Commodore 64 computers offered user-to-user messages between concurrently connected customers, which they called " On-Line Messages " ( or OLM for short ), and later " FlashMail.

The Olympus Pearlcorder L400, released in the 1980s, was the smallest and lightest Microcassette Voice recorder ever offered for sale, 2. 9 ( L ) × 0. 8 ( H ) × 2. 0 in.

However, by the early 1980s, many companies released a new class of computer, the home computer that could connect to a TV set and offered color graphics and improved sound.

* High performance CPUs: while RISC in its early days ( early 1980s ) offered roughly an order-of-magnitude performance improvement over CISC processors of comparable cost, one particular family of CISC processors, Intel's x86, always had the edge in market share and the economies of scale that this implied.

Slana developed rapidly in the 1980s when homesteads were offered for settlement by the federal government.

* Lloyd's Meat Market, located on main street between Railroad avenue and Bourgeois street in a wood and brick framed structure, this meat market offered locally produced fresh seafood and meat from the 1960s until the early 1980s.

For several years during the 1980s, Commodore Airlines ( eventually becoming State Air ) offered another alternative service.

The LaTeX macro package written by Leslie Lamport at the beginning of the 1980s offered a simpler interface, and an easier way to systematically encode the structure of a document.

Since the late 1980s, McDonald's in Hong Kong has offered a Teriyaki sandwich dubbed the Shogun Burger, where the teriyaki sauce is a coating on the burger patty.

Until the early 1980s the performance benefits of the low-level navigational interfaces offered by hierarchical and network databases were persuasive for many large-scale applications, but as hardware became faster, the extra productivity and flexibility of the relational model led to the gradual obsolescence of the network model in corporate enterprise usage.

In the early 1980s, Martin also offered an E-series of electric guitars.

The Orange Campus offered continuing education and summer courses to men and women through the 1980s.

After some guest appearances in late 1980s television, it was his intention to enroll at the University of Southern California, but when he was offered the lead role of Chazz Russell in Second Chance he became noticed on the acting scene.

In the late 1980s digital recording was offered as an alternative to the reel-to-reel tape, and soon became the medium of choice.

He was offered so many projects in the late 1980s that he had to pass some of them over to other computer game music writers ( such as his good friends, Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish ).

The University Section got its nickname from the section's main purpose in the 1980s and 1990s and was a discount section offered to university students in Saskatchewan.