* Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

Asian Development Bank, Five-Power Defense Arrangement, and South Centre.

This competition is organised by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics ( SEAMEO RECSAM ), which bases its operations in Penang, Malaysia.

* Asian Law Centre: Melbourne University legal analysis of the Constitutional Court's decision ( 27 July 2004 )

Feature films such as House ( directed by Laurie Lynd ) and Shoemaker ( directed by Colleen Murphy ), as well as many short films such as the south Asian " Shanti Baba Ram & the Dancers of Hope " ( directed by Steve Rosenberg ), title track by Vikas Kohli of Fatlabs ) and Elevated ( directed by Vincenzo Natali ) have all come from the Canadian Film Centre.

It has taken the lead in calling for a South Asian Free Trade Agreement, the formulation of a Social Charter, the initiation of informal political consultations in SAARC forums, the lobbying for greater action on environmental issues, the proposal of numerous human rights measures such as the regional convention on child rights and for setting up a SAARC Human Rights Resource Centre.

: Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Western Australia.

* Historic Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia, Asian Library and the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

It is also home to the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and the Petro Jacyk Resource Centre.

Bath is a major tourist centre and has a range of museums and art galleries including the Victoria Art Gallery, the Museum of East Asian Art, and Holburne Museum of Art, numerous commercial art galleries and antique shops, as well as numerous museums, among them Bath Postal Museum, The Fashion Museum, the Jane Austen Centre, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy and the Roman Baths.

A recent study by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong pointed out that private tutoring can dominate the lives of young people and their families, maintain and exacerbate social inequalities, divert needed household income into an unregulated industry, and create inefficiencies in education systems.

A 2012 study by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong recommended policymakers across the region take a closer look at how ‘ shadow education ’ affects family budgets, children ’ s time, and national education systems.

In 1955 the department of Water Resources Development and Management ( WRDM ) was established as an Asian African Centre to honour India's commitment at the Asian African Conference held in Bandung.

She was awarded the " 2012 Huading Most Popular Asian Actress Award " in Beijing Olympic Sports Centre on 4 July.

* Fifty Years after the Asian Relations Conference, Sharan, 1997, Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre

It initially opened in 1924, and in 1948 the Library was made a branch of the National Diet Library as result of the financial fallout from World War II, and in 1961 was made a UNESCO affiliated organisation as the Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies.

She created the first purpose-built education and training centre for Asian women in the UK called the Jagonari Centre, located at Whitechapel, East London, in 1999.

The garden is behind the university's Asian Centre, which is built with steel girders from Japan's exhibit at Osaka Expo.

* In August 2007, the Internet Centre reports of a wave of emails originating from China from “ Asian Domain Registration Service ”, implying that a domain name will be lost, or all Asian TLDs of the domain name will be taken away shortly by a foreign company.

It was during this period that he was invited to serve as a visiting professor at both Cambridge and Princeton universities and was appointed to the governing boards of such organisations as the International Council for Educational Development, the East-West Centre, the Asian Institute of Management, and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

* Speak Good English Weekend held at The Arts House at Old Parliament saw the collaboration of SGEM partners like Asian Storytelling Network ( ASN ), British Council, Institute of Technical Education ( ITE ), Julia Gabriel Speech & Drama Centre, National Library Board ( NLB ), News Radio 93. 8FM and Regional Language Centre ( RELC ) to organize activities related to English such as Scrabble, poetry, and tongue-twister sessions.

This included a guest lecture by Mackay scholar James R. Rohrer for the Queen's School of Religion on the issue of science and religion, and another guest lecture by Prof. Jane Lee of Aletheia University for the York University Centre of Asian Research on Minnie Mackay and the place of native Bible women in colonial Taiwan.

In Vientiane, the royal Laotian government decided today to ask its `` friends and neighbors '' for help in fighting what it called a new rebel offensive threatening the southeast Asian kingdom.

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

Although he still didn't speak to anyone, he grew fond of saying, `` The future lies in Asia '', when the opportunity arose, and when he graduated from high school his parents sent him to New York to give him a foundation, they said, for his life in Asian studies.

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 abalone meat from South Africa is prohibited for sale in the country to help reduce poaching ; however, much of the illegally harvested meat is sold in Asian countries.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

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

* Afghanistan and the Search for Unity Article on Durrani methods of government, published in Asian Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 145 – 157.

Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion although it has taken steps to become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC ( Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ) forum.

It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Bornean Clouded Leopard, the Hose's Civet and the Dayak Fruit Bat.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

In some European Union and Asian countries, there are two separate boards, an executive board for day-to-day business and a supervisory board ( elected by the shareholders ) for supervising the executive board.

While most species of North American red oak are unsuitable for construction of bokken, there are some Asian species of red oak that have a significantly tighter grain and will be able to withstand repeated impacts.

The need to support more writing systems for different languages, including the CJK family of East Asian scripts, required support for a far larger number of characters and demanded a systematic approach to character encoding rather than the previous ad hoc approaches.

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

* Asian Currency Unit: proposed for the ASEAN + 3, or the East Asian Community

In some European Union, and in some Asian countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes ( elected by the shareholders ).

Several maritime Asian nations sent envoys with tribute for the Chinese emperor.

* NSW Council for Civil Liberties: an Australian organisation opposed to the Death Penalty in the Asian region

Asian mail was typically lighter than the European variety and sometimes had prayer symbols stamped on the rings as a sign of their craftsmanship as well as for divine protection.

Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 BC-87 BC ) went to war with the Dayuan for this reason, since the Dayuan were hording a massive amount of tall, strong, Central Asian bred horses in the Hellenized – Greek region of Fergana ( established slightly earlier by Alexander the Great ).