Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.
All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.
A sizable number of Asian Americans feel that affirmative action, in college admissions or elsewhere, has hurt them personally.
Indeed, our a-list Asian blogger Phil Yu calls himself Angry Asian Man to address this lack.
At the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan.
Almost all Asian nations want America as the balancer and protector against an increasingly demanding Beijing.
What could audiences possibly gain from watching Hollywood personnel go through the motions of adhering to an Asian precursor?
Asian and art deco in feel, they enlivened a blazer, turned a dress into a virtual tapestry.
I was a dorky Indo-English kid with a South Asian Afro, and he was the all-American type, on the baseball team, et cetera.
Immigration since World War II has given Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee small South Asian communities.
Welsh Asian and African communities developed mainly through immigration after the Second World War.
In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the centre of Asian trade.
These expeditions were hoping to find an oceanic Northwest Passage to Asian trade.
Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools.
In recent years curries have become popular in the county largely due to the immigration and successful integration of Asian families.
If a viable hybrid embryo is obtained, it may be possible to implant it into a female Asian elephant housed in a zoo.
Early Japanese societies and other East Asian cultures used pottery before developing agriculture.
Several years later, in 88 BC, a Roman army was sent to put down an emerging Asian power, king Mithridates of Pontus.
The ceiling and the chandelier of the main hall were covered with the wing cases of thousands of Asian jewel beetles.
In 1984, Brunei, Britain's last remaining Asian protectorate, gained its independence.
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The geopolitical definition and the use of terms such as Indian subcontinent, South Asian subcontinent and South Asia is a contested topic.
The SAMA Festival, an East Asian cultural festival is also held in early October.
After gaining independence, African and Asian countries also established central banks or monetary unions.
A year later, the Asian Development Bank reported that Pakistan's economic crisis was easing.
The successful launch of its first rocket into space made Pakistan the first South Asian country to have achieved such a task.
Most of those dishes have their roots in British, Central Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine.
In athletics, the country has a proud history with 14 gold medals at the Asian Games.
As of 2016, Pakistan's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medal tallies stand at 69 and 165, respectively.
The Presidency of Bengal became the cradle of modern South Asian political and artistic expression.
Northern and eastern Bangladesh is home to the Asian elephant, hoolock gibbon, Asian black bear and oriental pied hornbill.
Asian University for Women in Chittagong is the preeminent liberal arts university for women in South Asia, representing 14 countries from Asia.
The Bangladeshi diaspora dominates the South Asian restaurant industry in many Western countries, particularly in the United Kingdom.
The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important celebration for Chinese and other East Asian communities.
The China Arts Space is an organisation that promotes East Asian visual and performing arts.
In Asian countries, the numerous football events also increased the popularity of football.
As in other Asian countries such as Singapore and China, standardised tests are a common feature.
Research shows that ethnic attrition is sizable in Hispanic and Asian immigrant groups in the United States.
Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces.
This concept has been controversial in Buddhism, but has a following in the East Asian Buddhism.
In 1511, Malacca, then the centre of Asian trade, was conquered for Portugal by Afonso de Albuquerque.
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India has traditionally been the dominant country at the South Asian Games.
These titles, dubbed Amerimanga or original English language manga, draw their inspirations from Japanese and other Asian comics.
Asian dragons, unlike their European counterparts, are anguinine in apearance.
In this case, Asian dust was transported by a downward moving low pressure and the altitude of Asian dust was below 3km.
The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies.
On Hari Raya, the Asian Civilisations Museum offers an afternoon of traditional Malay games of chapteh and congkak.
We argue there are two major ways in which dialecticism influences emotional complexity in East Asian cultures.
Some data suggest that fat deposition at ectopic places correlates with the metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians.
Over the recent years, the house sparrow population has been on the decline in many Asian countries, and this decline is quite evident in India.
Fossils in China demonstrate a migration of Asian mammals into North America around 55 million years ago.
The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis.
Relatively few cultivars of European or Asian pears are widely grown worldwide.
Many Asian fungi are commercially grown and have increased in popularity in the West.
Irenaeus reminded Victor of his predecessor more tolerant attitude and Polycrates emphatically defended the Asian practice.
Nestorian was not the name by which the church knew itself, nor was it so commonly designated in Asian lands.
Most Southeast Asian people were originally animist, engaged in ancestors, nature, and spirits worship.
The spread of these two Indian religions confined the adherents of Southeast Asian indigenous beliefs into remote inland areas.
Water is also taken as a role model in some parts of traditional and popular Asian philosophy.
The islands in the Indian Ocean are also populated primarily by people of Asian origin, often mixed with Africans and Europeans.
Most of the continental fragments, volcanic arcs, and ocean basins added to Laurentia this way contained faunas of Tethyan or Asian affinity.
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In Asia, various Chinese dynasties and Japanese shogunates controlled the Asian sphere.
The DNA indicates she was from a lineage derived from Asian origins and also represented in the DNA of the modern native population.
The common occurrence of the mtDNA Haplogroups A, B, C, and D among eastern Asian and Native American populations has long been recognized.
Several trade blocs exist, with the most developed being the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
In Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia and Asian Russia, Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion.
During the 20th century, Canadians with African, Caribbean and Asian nationalities have added to the Canadian identity and its culture.
The Grande Coupure marks a break between endemic European faunas before the break and mixed faunas with a strong Asian component afterwards.
The Asian biotic reorganization events are comparable to the Grande Coupure in Europe and the Mongolian Remodeling of mammalian communities.
A coastal east Asian source population is integral to the marine migration hypothesis.
For example, in the Asian northern Pacific, albacore are confined between two current systems.
Now sharks are being increasingly targeted to supply emerging Asian markets, particularly for shark fins, which are used in shark fin soup.
Asian species are the most endangered, closely followed by the five endemic species from Madagascar.
The authors of this chronologically later East Asian Acheulean remain unknown, as does whether it evolved in the region or was brought in.
Adidas entered Kabaddi which is still a non Olympic sport but highly popular in the Indian subcontinent and Asian countries.
They also took it to the Philippines, from where it spread to southeast Asia and then the entire Asian continent.
More recently American, Australian, Asian and other European cultures have exerted influence on New Zealand.
The national and international trade in ivory of threatened species such as African and Asian elephants is illegal.
Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China.
Reindeer antler is powdered and sold as an aphrodisiac, nutritional or medicinal supplement to Asian markets.
Of late maritime archaeologists have been examining the submerged cultural remains of China, India, Korea and other Asian nations.
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Since the 1960s, many westerners attracted by the world view presented in Asian religious systems have converted to Hinduism.
The description of Huns given by the Romans has prompted some historians to believe they were of East Asian origin.
The academy accepted the essay but suggested that he could have spent more time comparing Icelandic with Persian and other Asian languages.
A slave market for captured Russian and Persian slaves was centred in the Central Asian khanate of Khiva.
More specifically, they lie between Weber's Line and Lydekker's Line, and thus have a fauna that is rather more Australasian than Asian.
Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages.
He ruthlessly suppressed pirates who had long plagued Chinese and southeast Asian waters.
Despite European pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to never have been colonized.
The country remains an active member of ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Asian tourists primarily visit Thailand for Bangkok and the historical, natural, and cultural sights in its vicinity.
As with other Asian cultures, respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
The women's team has often participated in the World Championship, World Cup, and World Grand Prix Asian Championship.
The Thailand national basketball team had its most successful year at the 1966 Asian Games where it won the silver medal.
This gave Europe some degree of protection from the peril of Central Asian invaders.
The stadium was built in 1998 for the 1998 Asian Games and is the home stadium of the Thailand national football team.
The Mongols' extensive West Asian and European contacts produced a fair amount of cultural exchange.
Han Chinese were moved to Central Asian areas like Besh Baliq, Almaliq, and Samarqand by the Mongols where they worked as artisans and farmers.
She was surprisingly polyglottal, with native fluency in 12 Asian languages.
Pagoda structures in Asian temples take the form of a stairway linking earth and heaven.
Bamboo, the plant from which Asian calligraphy pens are made, represents knowledge and is regularly found on Asian college campuses.
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In Asian cultures houses were traditionally laid out in the form of a square oriented toward the four compass directions.
A traditional Asian home was oriented toward the sky through feng shui, a system of geomancy, just as a palace would be.
By 1240, all Kievan Rus' had fallen to the Asian invaders except for a few northern cities.
The zone has a mixture of species of Asian and Australian origin, and its own endemic species.
Further climate changes caused the extinction of the Asian giraffes, while the African giraffes survived and radiated into several new species.
Malagasy cuisine reflects the diverse influences of Southeast Asian, African, Indian, Chinese and European culinary traditions.
The Roman Empire, and its demand for sophisticated Asian products, crumbled in the West around the 5th century.
In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the center of Asian trade.
Oman hosted the Asian 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers, where 11 teams competed for three spots at the FIFA World Cup.
But as the Mongol Empire collapsed, Europeans began to shift away from the idea that Prester John had ever really been a Central Asian king.
Also, the Central Asian and Caucasian clusters can be considered contiguous, joined by the landlocked Caspian Sea.
Mauritius has strong and friendly relations with various African, American, Asian, European and Oceania countries.
It soon became clear that Portuguese control of Malacca did not also mean they controlled Asian trade centred there.
Rather than achieving their ambition of dominating Asian trade, the Portuguese had disrupted the organisation of the network.
In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade.
In August 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade, on behalf of the king of Portugal.
The last Championship was won in Lishui, China, at the 2016 Asian Roller Hockey Championship.
Macau also has a basketball team, which qualified for the Asian Basketball Championship twice.
Other domestic animals of Iran include Asian water buffaloes, camels, cattle, donkeys, goats, horses, and the sheep.
In September 1974, Iran became the first country in West Asia to host the Asian Games.
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Soccer has been regarded as the most popular sport in Iran, with men's national team having won the Asian Cup on three occasions.
Institutes have also opened which educate South Asian students, such as the Pakistan Urdu School, Bahrain and the Indian School, Bahrain.
The Dutch and British bitterly opposed them because they saw the company as a direct attack on their Asian trade.
These kingdoms were coastal thalassocracies based on trade with neighboring Asian political entities at that time.
These artifacts are said to be evidence of long range communication between prehistoric Southeast Asian societies.
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market.
The extent it was affected initially was not as severe as that of some of its Asian neighbors.
Philippine cinema has a long history and is popular domestically, but has faced increasing competition from American, Asian and European films.
The stadium also hosted its first rugby test when it hosted the 2012 Asian Five Nations Division I tournaments.
People of Southeast Asian origins are known as Southeast Asians or Aseanites.
However, initial analysis by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory indicated it is probably also of South East Asian origin.
The museum holds seven guns of South East Asian manufacture in its collections.
Another swivel gun of South East Asian manufacture, found in Darwin in 1908, is held by the Museum of South Australia.
A minority of Marshallese have some recent Asian ancestry, mainly Japanese.
Reforms have permitted sustained economic growth since 1993, except for a slump after the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
The city is known as the Gastronomical Capital of the Americas, mixing Spanish, Andean and Asian culinary traditions.
Collis considers Pinto's work the most complete European account of 16th century Asian history.
He is credited with publishing in Europe important classified information about Asian trade and navigation that was hidden by the Portuguese.
Cartier returned to France in September 1534, sure that he had reached an Asian land.
He saw the possibility of the VOC becoming an Asian power, both political and economic.
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The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.
As a result, the personnel of the various VOC offices in Asia consisted of European and Asian employees.
Asian or Eurasian workers might be employed as sailors, soldiers, writers, carpenters, smiths, or as simple unskilled workers.
The era was known as Pax Mongolica, when much of the Asian continent was ruled by the Mongols.
Several maritime Asian nations sent envoys with tribute for the Chinese emperor.
In some islands and countries, the South Asian migrants now constitute between 10 and 50 percent of the population.
Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and some other Asian countries are also large sweet potato growers.
The Portuguese therefore found the opportunity to act as intermediaries in Asian trade.
Fresh, unpreserved green pepper drupes, largely unknown in the West, are used in some Asian cuisines, particularly Thai cuisine.
Within the genus Piper, it is most closely related to other Asian species such as Piper caninum.
From about 1640 Dutch Delftware also became a competitor, using styles frankly imitative of the East Asian decoration.
African and Asian workers and slaves contributed to the development of Afrikaans.
Indian Ocean Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from Malagasy and possibly other Asian languages.
There has been a trend to reduce and simplify consonant clusters in East Asian languages, such as Chinese and Vietnamese.
Many South Asian and Chinese descendants continue to reside in Jamaica today.
Introduced mammals such as wild boar and the small Asian mongoose are also common.
It is a proposed basket of Asian currencies, similar to the European Currency Unit, which was the precursor of the Euro.
The Asian Development Bank is responsible for exploring the feasibility and construction of the basket.
A typical teenager's Southeast Asian English would be rhotic, mainly because of prominent influence by American English.
Asian countries see the lowest proportion of people using Latin script relative to alternative scripts.
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Although they likely migrated to Australia through Southeast Asia they are not demonstrably related to any known Asian or Polynesian population.
In 2006, Australia joined the Asian Football Confederation and qualified for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as an Asian entrant.
The 20th century saw the arrival of more Asian settlers from mainland China, South Korea, India, Syria, and Lebanon.
In R v Faqir Mohammed a cultured Asian man caught a young man leaving his daughter's bedroom window.
Brooklyn has been a destination for West Indian immigrants of African descent, as well as Asian Indian immigrants.
Growth in the maquila sector slowed in the first decade of the 21st century with rising competition from Asian markets, particularly China.
There is an East Asian community mostly consisting of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese.
Contemporary state capitalism is associated with the East Asian model of capitalism, dirigisme and the economy of Norway.
In recent decades there have been several Asian countries with high rates of economic growth driven by capital investment.
Central and western Europe, logistically more distant from the Central Asian heartland, proved less vulnerable to these threats.
Asian and African countries followed suit and began taking tentative steps toward forming their own respective continental associations.
They focus their study on five Asian nations including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.
This produced a reaction which led to all the colonies restricting Chinese and other Asian immigration.
The trade imbalance caused Europeans to export large quantities of gold and silver to Mughal India in order to pay for South Asian imports.
Indian goods, especially those from Bengal, were also exported in large quantities to other Asian markets, such as Indonesia and Japan.
Japan veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of type O FMD virus, currently more common in Asian countries where FMD is endemic.
Halifax is home to a large South Asian community mainly of British Pakistanis from the Kashmir region.
At the time of the 2001 census, over one in four of its residents identified themselves as from a South Asian or British Asian ethnic group.
Bradford's only television station AAP TV caters for Bradford's large Asian community.
The Leeds Asian Festival, formerly the Leeds Mela, is held in Roundhay Park.
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The majority of its Asian residents living in the neighbouring Daneshouse and Stoneyholme districts.
In total, the size of its Asian community is much smaller than those in nearby towns such as Blackburn and Oldham.
Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.
As the levels of education improved, many South East Asian countries became tiger economies.
Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.
The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.
But uncertainty hung over the fate of some yesterday, including five Asian black bears who may be too old to be moved and could be put to death.
This particular river is filled with an abundance of common carp and Asian carp, both of which can be taken by any means and with no limit.
The carp often called Asian carp are voracious feeders of plankton and can undercut an entire ecosystem, imperiling a range of native fish.
A CAUTIONARY TALE WITH AN UNCERTAIN ENDING, the Asian carp saga illustrates just how much can go wrong when man looses a species on a new world.
The new drinks menu features mocktails such as kumquat and pink pepper spritzer and Asian pear sparkler.
Pungent fall apple, Asian pear, and honeysuckle with bright, creamy lemon and toasty spice.
For starters I could not choose between the seared scallops on spiced cauliflower puree with an Asian pear and shisho salad and the mussels.
Another man of Asian origin was also found dead in Wadi Maedeen of Nizwa province on Friday afternoon.
By the 19th century, all Southeast Asian countries were colonised except for Thailand.
There is very little scientific information available regarding Southeast Asian amphibians.
The 2013 Southeast Asian Haze saw API levels reach a hazardous level in some countries.
Tourism has been a key factor in economic development for many Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia.
These schools recruit pupils worldwide, particularly from large emerging Asian economies.
There are several museums including the Museum of Bath Architecture, Victoria Art Gallery, Museum of East Asian Art, and the Holburne Museum.
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Many Asian lagyt creatures have been likened to, or translated as, goblins.
People fitting the middle definition are more usually known as British Asian or British Indian.
Burmese curries almost overwhelmingly lack coconut milk, setting them apart from most southeast Asian curries.
It is less spicy and seasoned than Indian and Southeast Asian curries, being more of a thick stew than a curry.
It was also majorly influenced from world music, especially African and Asian traditions.
Cricket was played in 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China and 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
Many Asian countries have a tradition of playing rugby dating from the British Empire.
Rugby union has also been an Asian Games event since the 1998 games in Bangkok, Thailand.
Other international competitions also emerged in the late 20th century, including the Nations Cup and the Asian Netball Championship.
The seventh Asian games were held in 2009 and featured Singapore, Thailand, Maldives, Taiwan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, India and Pakistan.
It was the first time the T20 World Cup tournament took place in an Asian country.
Tendulkar was the first Asian player to represent Yorkshire, but he was an overseas player.
Tokyo, Japan will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making it the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games twice.
This policy was extended to the PGA Tour of Australasia in 1996, and most extensively to the Asian Tour.
Hawaii is the only state in the union in which Asian Americans outnumber white American residents.
In 2009, Hong Kong hosted the 5th East Asian Games and nine national teams competed in it.
During the Cold War, the Asian power of Japan and the European powers of the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany rebuilt their economies.
The percentage of immigrants who are Asian is increasing while the percentage who are Hispanic is decreasing.
The Central Asian Revolt started in the summer of 1916, when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.
Its origins are obscure, deriving perhaps from an older Egyptian tradition, or possibly from an Asian source.
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In recent years, it has played key roles in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the World Trade Organisation.
Some of the earliest forms of Asian martial arts, such as kalarippayattu, musti yuddha, silambam, and marma adi, originated in India.
The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen.
In January 2011, the Asian Football Confederation's fifteenth Asian Cup was held in Qatar.
Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, thus becoming the first Asian city to host the Summer Games.
In addition to various levels of unrest in Europe, Asian countries have also seen various degrees of protest.
There were also stimulus plans in some Asian countries, in the Middle East and in Argentina.
This is characteristic of some Eastern European, Southern European and East Asian countries.
The Nagari script has been the primus inter pares of the traditional South Asian scripts.
The military rule and the unstable government in Pakistan has become a concern for the South Asian region.
African, eastern Asian, and European ancestry can be specified with a high degree of accuracy.
In 1972, Idi Amin announced that the entire Asian community in Uganda had 90 days to leave the country.
At the beginning World War I, there were 51,616 South Asian lascars working on British ships, the majority of whom were of Bengali descent.
For example, the late Alam Lohar is a good example of a classical South Asian folk singer of great repute.
The final station is the BBC Asian Network, providing music, talk and news to this section of the community.
It also sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London.
The national team has been to the FIBA Asian Championship in basketball eleven times.
Actually this site is the main entrance of illegal immigrants to the EU from the Asian continent.
The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described a dividing line between the distribution of Indonesia's Asian and Australasian species.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis affected Indonesia both economically and politically.
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On the continent level, Indonesia won the bronze medal once in football in the 1958 Asian Games.
East Timorese cuisine has influences from Southeast Asian foods and from Portuguese dishes from its colonisation by Portugal.
The epicenter was Boston in no small part due to Isabella Stewart Gardner, a pioneering collector of Asian art.
Along with the Industrial Revolution, Asian style and emerging modernist ideas also influenced Mackintosh's designs.
In subsequent decades, several naturalists and explorers described wildcats from European, African and Asian countries.
Historical records indicate that Asian pigs were introduced into Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Many East Asian countries rely on heavy industry as key parts of their overall economies.
East Asian seals usually bear the names of the people or organizations represented, but they can also bear poems or personal mottoes.
East Asian seals are carved from a variety of hard materials, including wood, soapstone, sea glass and jade.
East Asian paintings often bear multiple seals, including one or two seals from the artist, and the seals from the owners of the paintings.
Trunk highways in China consist of China National Highways, Expressways in China, and Asian Highway Network.
Trunk highways in India consist of National Highway, Expressways in India, State highways in India, and Asian Highway Network.
From Van der Post, Prince Charles developed a focus on philosophy, especially that of Asian and Middle Eastern nations.
In Istanbul, ferries connect the European and Asian shores of Bosphorus, as well as Princes Islands and nearby coastal towns.
Many European and East Asian countries now have higher death rates than birth rates.
Racial tensions between blacks and Asians in Birmingham increased after the deaths of three Asian men at the hands of a black youth.
These declines were observed for attitudes towards Black and Asian ethnic minorities.
This usage contrasts to that in the United States, where it is used to refer to people of East Asian origin.
South Asian ethnic groups mostly originate from a few select places in South Asia, these are known as place of origins.
Due to the majority of early South Asian immigrants being lascars, the earliest South Asian communities were found in port towns.
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Since the 1970s, South Asian performers and writers have achieved significant mainstream cultural success.
A new generation of British Asian musicians have followed, such as Shizzio, 21 Perspective and Raxstar.
Bridgman and Williams based their system on the phonetic alphabet and diacritics proposed by Sir William Jones for South Asian languages.
Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule.
Shaobing is believed to be related to the Persian and Central Asian naan and the Near Eastern pita.
However, many Asian countries such as China are still to recognise the value of marshlands.
Asian exploitation of turtle nests has been cited as the most significant factor for the species' global population decline.
Since the mid 1990s, almost all the confirmed records of living animals in Asian waters were from Japanese coasts.
There are also sizeable numbers of Asian immigrants, most of whom are of Middle Eastern, South Asian and Chinese origin.
In addition, Portugal still ruled the Asian territories of Portuguese India, Portuguese Timor and Macau.
Indian connections to various Southeast Asian states buffered it from blockages on other routes.
The Incense Route served as a channel for trading of Indian, Arabian and East Asian goods.
It was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one.
Japan had become the rising Asian power and had proven that its military could combat the major powers in Europe with success.
S held strength in the Asian region from aggravating European imperialist encroachment.
To the Western powers, Japan's victory demonstrated the emergence of a new Asian regional power.
Foreign visitors to Japan doubled in last decade and reached 10 million people for the first time in 2013, led by increase of Asian visitors.
Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making Tokyo the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice.
Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times.
Bristol is unusual among major British towns and cities in its larger black than Asian population.
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Brown bears will eat the fruit dropped from trees by the Asian black bear, as they themselves are too large and cumbersome to climb.
Improbably, in the Himalayas, brown bears are reportedly intimidated by Asian black bears in confrontations.
In this area, many subplates or crust blocks have been recognized, which form the Central Asian and the East Asian transit zones.
European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives.
Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States of India are culturally part of Southeast Asia and sometimes considered both South Asian and Southeast Asian.
Very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards.
While the earliest inhabitants were of Amerindian heritage, since the 20th century the two dominant groups in the country were those of South Asian and of African heritage.
Established in 2002, the ACD seeks to promote Asian cooperation at a continental level and to help integrate separate regional cooperation organizations.
The shallow waters of the Southeast Asian coral reefs have the highest levels of biodiversity for the world's marine ecosystems, where coral, fish and molluscs abound.
Historically, the state has had sizable East Asian immigration.
Texas in particular has many game ranches, as well as habitats and climates, that are very hospitable to African and Asian plains antelope species.
The problem is particularly serious among immigrant or former immigrant communities of African origin but other communities, such as those of Asian origin are also involved.
With a capital of 6,440,200 guilders, the charter of the new company empowered it to build forts, maintain armies, and conclude treaties with Asian rulers.
Although it was at the centre of the spice production areas, it was far from the Asian trade routes and other VOC areas of activity ranging from Africa to India to Japan.
In the United States, nearly 100 percent of Asian Americans and Native Americans maldigest lactose because their amount of lactase activity is very low.
Chinese era names were also employed in other East Asian countries.
The distributional boundary between the ranges of European and Asian badgers is the Volga River, the European species being situated on the western bank.
Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have their own versions of curry.
The Han dynasty expanded Central Asian sections of the trade routes around 114 BCE, largely through missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy, Zhang Qian.
A major problem in the European trade with Asia at the time was that the Europeans could offer few goods that Asian consumers wanted, except silver and gold.

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