Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

* Itu Aba Island, in the South China Sea

In recent years, it has given high priority in establishing political dialogue with other strategic actors such as India, Russia, China and South Africa through participation in international groupings such as BASIC, IBSA and BRICS.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

On the draft resolution condemning violence in Syria, Brazil worked with India and South Africa to try to bridge the divide between the Western powers and Russia and China.

Brunei is in Southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and Malaysia.

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close to vital sea lanes through South China Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans ; two parts physically separated by Malaysia ; almost an enclave within Malaysia

Indonesia, South Korea, China, and Malaysia along with Denmark are among the nations that have consistently produced world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in both men's and women's competition in recent years.

Population density also has a major impact, where dense urbanisation such as in Japan and the far east has led to the adoption of high capacity long multi-axle buses, often double-deckers, while South America and China are implementing large numbers of articulated buses for bus rapid transit schemes.

by the South China Sea to the north and northwest, the Sulu Sea to the northeast, the Celebes Sea and the Makassar Strait to the east, and the Java Sea and Karimata Strait to the south.

The South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand now submerge the former low-lying areas of the peninsula.

Most of the Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangea was now assembled, although North China ( which would collide in the Latest Carboniferous ), and South China continents were still separated from Laurasia.

Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed-Rheic Ocean ( closed by the assembly of South and North America ), the small, shallow Ural Ocean ( which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains ) and Proto-Tethys Ocean ( closed by North China collision with Siberia / Kazakhstania ).

These people may have migrated from South Eastern China to the Indochinese Peninsula.

To the southeast of this great basin is the Mekong Delta, which extends through Vietnam to the South China Sea.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

The Siberian tiger is the national animal of South Korea.

*** Panthera tigris amoyensis ( South China tiger )

A South China tiger ( Panthera tigris amoyensis ) as the predator feeding on the Blesbok | blesbuck, the prey.

The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) or Indian tiger is a tiger subspecies native to South Asia, and is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.

McNicoll ( 2006 ) examines the common features behind the striking changes in health and fertility in East and Southeast Asia in the 1960s – 1990s, focusing on seven countries: Taiwan and South Korea (" tiger " economies ), Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia (" second wave " countries ), and China and Vietnam (" market-Leninist " economies ).

The oncilla ( Leopardus tigrinus ), also known as the little spotted cat, tigrillo, cunaguaro or tiger cat, is a small spotted felid found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.

* Sala, Kannada ( South India ) folk hero who killed a tiger ( see Hoysala Empire # History )

A male South China tiger scent-marking Tiger # Territorial behaviour | his territory

Other names include spotted ragged tooth ( South Africa ) and blue-nurse sand tiger ( India ).

Mammals at the zoo include Jacob's sheep in the barnyard, titi monkey and Hoffmann's two-toed sloth in the South American exhibit, and African crested porcupine, Bennett's wallaby, black-handed spider monkey, Channel Island fox, fossa, Malayan tiger, Mara ( Patagonia Cavy ), prehensile-tailed porcupine, Prevost's squirrel, Red River hog, red ruffed lemur, slender-tailed meerkat, and White-fronted marmoset.

Tipu was in " close co-operation " with the French, who were at war with Britain and still had a presence in South India, and some of the French craftsmen who visited Tipu's court probably contributed to the internal works of the tiger.

In 1874 it was moved to the India Museum in South Kensington, which was in 1879 dissolved, with the collection distributed between other museums ; the V & A records the tiger as acquired in 1880.

The South Chinese tiger today is critically endangered, and the " blue " alleles may be wholly extinct.

No official or biologist has seen a wild South China tiger since the early 1970s, when the last verified record is of an individual brought into captivity.

Since the 1980s, the South China tiger is considered a relict population of the " stem " tiger, living close to the possible area of origin.

It is also known as the South Chinese, the Chinese, and the Xiamen tiger.

In 1905, the German zoologist Max Hilzheimer first described the South China tiger as similar in height to the Bengal tiger, but differing in skull and coat characteristics.

The South China tiger is the smallest tiger subspecies from mainland Asia, but bigger than the subspecies known from the Sunda islands such as the Sumatran tiger.

*** Panthera leo krugeri-Transvaal Lion, South African Lion, or Southeast African lion

*** Panthera onca mesembrina-Pleistocene South American jaguar †

* Panther ( in South and Central America ), the jaguar ( Panthera onca )

Larger extinct felids include the American lion ( Panthera leo atrox ) and the South American saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator.

The American lion ( Panthera leo atrox or P. atrox ) — also known as the North American lion, Naegele ’ s giant jaguar or American cave lion — is an extinct lion of the family Felidae, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch ( 0. 34 mya to 11, 000 years ago ), existing for approximately.

The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare colour mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion ( Panthera leo krugeri ).