The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

* Asia & Pacific Amphetamine-Type Stimulants Information Centre

* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Ms. Tran Thi Hoan ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The Meganthropus fossils originated from Asia, the tooth was found in the Pacific Northwest.

* Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Asia and the Pacific

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 2 ( 1 ): 24-44.

The voyages of discovery of the 16th and 17th centuries acquainted Europeans with new and different cultures in the Americas, in Asia, and in the Pacific.

* Music Cultures of the Pacific, the near East, and Asia: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977.

There is also Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) was established in 1989 with the vision of achieving stability, security and prosperity for the region through free and open trade and investment.

Under Mountbatten's presidency and personal involvement, the United World College of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the United World College of the Pacific ( now known as the Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific ) in Victoria, Canada, in 1974.

* Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand

Members of the AOFC get together during this tournament to play for the Asia Pacific Floorball Championship every year.

As of 2010, the Asia Pacific Floorball Championship is also the qualifying tournament for the World Floorball Championships.

Additionally outside the region, FSM is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM and the World Meteorological Organization.

In 1910 he left Vienna to see the world, traveling throughout Europe and Africa and later Asia and the Pacific area.

* Asia Pacific

By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific ( Kiauchau in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa ) led to frictions with Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, trade flourished across the Atlantic between Spain and the Americas and across the Pacific between East Asia and Mexico via the Philippines.

The airport now serves as a transport hub for East Asia, and as the hub for Cathay Pacific Airways, Dragonair, Hong Kong Express, Hong Kong Airlines ( former CR Airways ), and Air Hong Kong.

By 1963, Holden was exporting cars to Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean.

Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians have descended from a South Pacific proto-culture created by an Austronesian ( Malayo-Polynesian ) people that had migrated from Southeast Asia.

In the 1990s, harmonica players in Hong Kong began to participate in international harmonica competitions, including the World Harmonica Festival in Germany and the Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival.

The event was created by the Singapore Floorball Association together with the cooperation of the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation ( AOFC ).

These include the regional competitions in Asia ( Badminton Asia Championships ) and Europe ( European Badminton Championships ), which produce the world's best players as well as the Pan America Badminton Championships.

Cheerleading Asia International Open Championships ( CAIOC ): Hosted by the Foundation of Japan Cheerleading Association ( FJCA ) in accordance with the rules and regulations of the IFC.

New Zealand hosted the Asia Oceania Youth Championships in 2007.

* Asia Volleyball Championships won by Japan ( men ) and China ( women )

Ultrarunning has become popular in Asia recently, and countries such as Taiwan, Japan, and Korea have hosted IAU World Championships in the last few years.

She also played in the European Team Championships of 1997 when Georgia won the gold medal and in the 1st Europe v Asia Intercontinental rapidplay match which was held in Batumi ( Georgia ) in September 2001.

In 2005 he won the bronze medal at the Badminton Asia Championships.

These included the Thailand ( 1994 ), Indonesia ( 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 ), Singapore ( 1995, 1998 ), Malaysia ( 1996, 1998, 2000 ), and Chinese Taipei ( 2002 ) Opens ; the Badminton World Cup ( 1995 ), the World Badminton Grand Prix ( 1995 ), the Southeast Asian Games ( 1995 ), and the Badminton Asia Championships ( 1996 ).

Though only occasionally chosen by the Indonesian Badminton Association to play international events in men's doubles, Kusharjanto has won some, most notably the Badminton Asia Championships with Bambang Suprianto in 2001 and with Sigit Budiarto in 2004.

* 2008: Winning Badminton Asia Championships, 4th Olympic Games, Final Korea Open, Semifinal Indonesia Open

Zhang's other titles with Gao included three victories ( 2001, 2003, and 2006 ) at the prestigious All-England Championships ; the Badminton Asia Championships in 2002 ; the China Masters in 2005 ; and the China ( 2002, 2003 ), Japan ( 2003 ), Indonesia ( 2004 ), Malaysia ( 2004, 2006 ), Thailand ( 2005 ), Singapore ( 2005 ), and German ( 2006 ) Opens.

The Starion was not very successful off-road, but found victory in Group A World Rally Championships and Asia Pacific Rally Championships during 1987 and 1988.

* Asia Pacific Orienteering Championships

Based in Europe, but also co-sanctions the major championships and World Golf Championships in the United States, along with many other tournaments in Asia, Africa and Australia.

* Badminton Asia Championships ( 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 )

Aside from the bronze medal at the World Championships and the fifth-place Olympic finish, the Philippines has won five FIBA Asian Championships for Men, four Asian Games Men's Basketball gold medals and a consistent winner at the Southeast Asian Games and at the Southeast Asia Basketball Association.

Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

The Austro-Asiatic ( Austroasiatic ) languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon – Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh.

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

Caecilians are found in tropical Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe ( Turks, Kalmyks ).

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

Several species are raised for amaranth " grain " in Asia and the Americas.

There are four species of Amaranthus documented as cultivated vegetables in eastern Asia: Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus blitum, Amaranthus dubius, and Amaranthus tricolor.

In Roman historiography, there are various accounts of Amazon raids in Asia Minor.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Also, owing to its antimicrobial / algaecidal properties that prevent biofouling, in conjunction with its strong structural and corrosion-resistant benefits for marine environments, brass alloy netting cages are currently being deployed in commercial-scale aquaculture operations in Asia, South America, and the USA.

In West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean early copper zinc alloys are now known in small numbers from a number of third Millennium BC sites in the Aegean, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kalmykia, Turkmenistan and Georgia and from 2nd Millennium BC sites in West India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Israel.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).