Asian and art deco in feel, they enlivened a blazer, turned a dress into a virtual tapestry. |
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Almost all Asian nations want America as the balancer and protector against an increasingly demanding Beijing. |
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The new Asian elite could certainly use a Tom Wolfe or two, but Kwan is far too besotted for the task. |
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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. |
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All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway. |
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At the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan. |
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A sizable number of Asian Americans feel that affirmative action, in college admissions or elsewhere, has hurt them personally. |
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What could audiences possibly gain from watching Hollywood personnel go through the motions of adhering to an Asian precursor? |
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Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails. |
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Indeed, our a-list Asian blogger Phil Yu calls himself Angry Asian Man to address this lack. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the centre of Asian trade. |
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These expeditions were hoping to find an oceanic Northwest Passage to Asian trade. |
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People of Southeast Asian origins are known as Southeast Asians or Aseanites. |
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Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools. |
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In recent years curries have become popular in the county largely due to the immigration and successful integration of Asian families. |
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If a viable hybrid embryo is obtained, it may be possible to implant it into a female Asian elephant housed in a zoo. |
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Early Japanese societies and other East Asian cultures used pottery before developing agriculture. |
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Several years later, in 88 BC, a Roman army was sent to put down an emerging Asian power, king Mithridates of Pontus. |
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The ceiling and the chandelier of the main hall were covered with the wing cases of thousands of Asian jewel beetles. |
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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. |
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The SAMA Festival, an East Asian cultural festival is also held in early October. |
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After gaining independence, African and Asian countries also established central banks or monetary unions. |
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East Asian seals are carved from a variety of hard materials, including wood, soapstone, sea glass and jade. |
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A year later, the Asian Development Bank reported that Pakistan's economic crisis was easing. |
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The successful launch of its first rocket into space made Pakistan the first South Asian country to have achieved such a task. |
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Most of those dishes have their roots in British, Central Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. |
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In athletics, the country has a proud history with 14 gold medals at the Asian Games. |
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As of 2016, Pakistan's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medal tallies stand at 69 and 165, respectively. |
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The Presidency of Bengal became the cradle of modern South Asian political and artistic expression. |
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Northern and eastern Bangladesh is home to the Asian elephant, hoolock gibbon, Asian black bear and oriental pied hornbill. |
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Asian University for Women in Chittagong is the preeminent liberal arts university for women in South Asia, representing 14 countries from Asia. |
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The Bangladeshi diaspora dominates the South Asian restaurant industry in many Western countries, particularly in the United Kingdom. |
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The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important celebration for Chinese and other East Asian communities. |
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The China Arts Space is an organisation that promotes East Asian visual and performing arts. |
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In Asian countries, the numerous football events also increased the popularity of football. |
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As in other Asian countries such as Singapore and China, standardised tests are a common feature. |
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Research shows that ethnic attrition is sizable in Hispanic and Asian immigrant groups in the United States. |
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Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces. |
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This concept has been controversial in Buddhism, but has a following in the East Asian Buddhism. |
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By the 19th century, all Southeast Asian countries were colonised except for Thailand. |
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There is very little scientific information available regarding Southeast Asian amphibians. |
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Samanu is a sweet paste made entirely from young wheatgrass, which is prepared for Nowruz in a large pot in Central Asian countries. |
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These titles, dubbed Amerimanga or original English language manga, draw their inspirations from Japanese and other Asian comics. |
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Asian dragons, unlike their European counterparts, are anguinine in apearance. |
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In this case, Asian dust was transported by a downward moving low pressure and the altitude of Asian dust was below 3km. |
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The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies. |
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On Hari Raya, the Asian Civilisations Museum offers an afternoon of traditional Malay games of chapteh and congkak. |
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We argue there are two major ways in which dialecticism influences emotional complexity in East Asian cultures. |
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Some data suggest that fat deposition at ectopic places correlates with the metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians. |
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Immigration since World War II has given Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee small South Asian communities. |
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Welsh Asian and African communities developed mainly through immigration after the Second World War. |
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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. |
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The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis. |
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Relatively few cultivars of European or Asian pears are widely grown worldwide. |
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Many Asian fungi are commercially grown and have increased in popularity in the West. |
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Irenaeus reminded Victor of his predecessor more tolerant attitude and Polycrates emphatically defended the Asian practice. |
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Nestorian was not the name by which the church knew itself, nor was it so commonly designated in Asian lands. |
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Most Southeast Asian people were originally animist, engaged in ancestors, nature, and spirits worship. |
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The spread of these two Indian religions confined the adherents of Southeast Asian indigenous beliefs into remote inland areas. |
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Water is also taken as a role model in some parts of traditional and popular Asian philosophy. |
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The islands in the Indian Ocean are also populated primarily by people of Asian origin, often mixed with Africans and Europeans. |
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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. |
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The DNA indicates she was from a lineage derived from Asian origins and also represented in the DNA of the modern native population. |
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The common occurrence of the mtDNA Haplogroups A, B, C, and D among eastern Asian and Native American populations has long been recognized. |
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Several trade blocs exist, with the most developed being the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
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In Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia and Asian Russia, Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion. |
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During the 20th century, Canadians with African, Caribbean and Asian nationalities have added to the Canadian identity and its culture. |
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The Grande Coupure marks a break between endemic European faunas before the break and mixed faunas with a strong Asian component afterwards. |
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The Asian biotic reorganization events are comparable to the Grande Coupure in Europe and the Mongolian Remodeling of mammalian communities. |
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Fossils in China demonstrate a migration of Asian mammals into North America around 55 million years ago. |
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A coastal east Asian source population is integral to the marine migration hypothesis. |
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For example, in the Asian northern Pacific, albacore are confined between two current systems. |
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Now sharks are being increasingly targeted to supply emerging Asian markets, particularly for shark fins, which are used in shark fin soup. |
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Asian species are the most endangered, closely followed by the five endemic species from Madagascar. |
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The authors of this chronologically later East Asian Acheulean remain unknown, as does whether it evolved in the region or was brought in. |
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Adidas entered Kabaddi which is still a non Olympic sport but highly popular in the Indian subcontinent and Asian countries. |
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They also took it to the Philippines, from where it spread to southeast Asia and then the entire Asian continent. |
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More recently American, Australian, Asian and other European cultures have exerted influence on New Zealand. |
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The national and international trade in ivory of threatened species such as African and Asian elephants is illegal. |
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Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China. |
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Reindeer antler is powdered and sold as an aphrodisiac, nutritional or medicinal supplement to Asian markets. |
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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. |
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The description of Huns given by the Romans has prompted some historians to believe they were of East Asian origin. |
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The academy accepted the essay but suggested that he could have spent more time comparing Icelandic with Persian and other Asian languages. |
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A slave market for captured Russian and Persian slaves was centred in the Central Asian khanate of Khiva. |
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Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages. |
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He ruthlessly suppressed pirates who had long plagued Chinese and southeast Asian waters. |
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Despite European pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to never have been colonized. |
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The country remains an active member of ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
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Asian tourists primarily visit Thailand for Bangkok and the historical, natural, and cultural sights in its vicinity. |
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As with other Asian cultures, respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice. |
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The women's team has often participated in the World Championship, World Cup, and World Grand Prix Asian Championship. |
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The Thailand national basketball team had its most successful year at the 1966 Asian Games where it won the silver medal. |
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The stadium was built in 1998 for the 1998 Asian Games and is the home stadium of the Thailand national football team. |
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The Mongols' extensive West Asian and European contacts produced a fair amount of cultural exchange. |
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Han Chinese were moved to Central Asian areas like Besh Baliq, Almaliq, and Samarqand by the Mongols where they worked as artisans and farmers. |
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She was surprisingly polyglottal, with native fluency in 12 Asian languages. |
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Pagoda structures in Asian temples take the form of a stairway linking earth and heaven. |
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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. |
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A traditional Asian home was oriented toward the sky through feng shui, a system of geomancy, just as a palace would be. |
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By 1240, all Kievan Rus' had fallen to the Asian invaders except for a few northern cities. |
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The zone has a mixture of species of Asian and Australian origin, and its own endemic species. |
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Further climate changes caused the extinction of the Asian giraffes, while the African giraffes survived and radiated into several new species. |
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Many South Asian and Chinese descendants continue to reside in Jamaica today. |
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Malagasy cuisine reflects the diverse influences of Southeast Asian, African, Indian, Chinese and European culinary traditions. |
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The Roman Empire, and its demand for sophisticated Asian products, crumbled in the West around the 5th century. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the center of Asian trade. |
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Oman hosted the Asian 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers, where 11 teams competed for three spots at the FIFA World Cup. |
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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. |
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Mauritius has strong and friendly relations with various African, American, Asian, European and Oceania countries. |
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It soon became clear that Portuguese control of Malacca did not also mean they controlled Asian trade centred there. |
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Rather than achieving their ambition of dominating Asian trade, the Portuguese had disrupted the organisation of the network. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The last Championship was won in Lishui, China, at the 2016 Asian Roller Hockey Championship. |
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Macau also has a basketball team, which qualified for the Asian Basketball Championship twice. |
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Other domestic animals of Iran include Asian water buffaloes, camels, cattle, donkeys, goats, horses, and the sheep. |
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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. |
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Institutes have also opened which educate South Asian students, such as the Pakistan Urdu School, Bahrain and the Indian School, Bahrain. |
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The Dutch and British bitterly opposed them because they saw the company as a direct attack on their Asian trade. |
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These kingdoms were coastal thalassocracies based on trade with neighboring Asian political entities at that time. |
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These artifacts are said to be evidence of long range communication between prehistoric Southeast Asian societies. |
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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. |
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The extent it was affected initially was not as severe as that of some of its Asian neighbors. |
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Philippine cinema has a long history and is popular domestically, but has faced increasing competition from American, Asian and European films. |
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Introduced mammals such as wild boar and the small Asian mongoose are also common. |
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The stadium also hosted its first rugby test when it hosted the 2012 Asian Five Nations Division I tournaments. |
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In 1511, Malacca, then the centre of Asian trade, was conquered for Portugal by Afonso de Albuquerque. |
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However, initial analysis by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory indicated it is probably also of South East Asian origin. |
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The museum holds seven guns of South East Asian manufacture in its collections. |
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Another swivel gun of South East Asian manufacture, found in Darwin in 1908, is held by the Museum of South Australia. |
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A minority of Marshallese have some recent Asian ancestry, mainly Japanese. |
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Reforms have permitted sustained economic growth since 1993, except for a slump after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. |
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The city is known as the Gastronomical Capital of the Americas, mixing Spanish, Andean and Asian culinary traditions. |
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Collis considers Pinto's work the most complete European account of 16th century Asian history. |
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He is credited with publishing in Europe important classified information about Asian trade and navigation that was hidden by the Portuguese. |
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Cartier returned to France in September 1534, sure that he had reached an Asian land. |
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He saw the possibility of the VOC becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. |
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As a result, the personnel of the various VOC offices in Asia consisted of European and Asian employees. |
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The era was known as Pax Mongolica, when much of the Asian continent was ruled by the Mongols. |
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Several maritime Asian nations sent envoys with tribute for the Chinese emperor. |
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In some islands and countries, the South Asian migrants now constitute between 10 and 50 percent of the population. |
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Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and some other Asian countries are also large sweet potato growers. |
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The Portuguese therefore found the opportunity to act as intermediaries in Asian trade. |
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Fresh, unpreserved green pepper drupes, largely unknown in the West, are used in some Asian cuisines, particularly Thai cuisine. |
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Within the genus Piper, it is most closely related to other Asian species such as Piper caninum. |
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From about 1640 Dutch Delftware also became a competitor, using styles frankly imitative of the East Asian decoration. |
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African and Asian workers and slaves contributed to the development of Afrikaans. |
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Indian Ocean Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from Malagasy and possibly other Asian languages. |
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There has been a trend to reduce and simplify consonant clusters in East Asian languages, such as Chinese and Vietnamese. |
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It is a proposed basket of Asian currencies, similar to the European Currency Unit, which was the precursor of the Euro. |
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The Asian Development Bank is responsible for exploring the feasibility and construction of the basket. |
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A typical teenager's Southeast Asian English would be rhotic, mainly because of prominent influence by American English. |
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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. |
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In 2006, Australia joined the Asian Football Confederation and qualified for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as an Asian entrant. |
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The 20th century saw the arrival of more Asian settlers from mainland China, South Korea, India, Syria, and Lebanon. |
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In R v Faqir Mohammed a cultured Asian man caught a young man leaving his daughter's bedroom window. |
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Brooklyn has been a destination for West Indian immigrants of African descent, as well as Asian Indian immigrants. |
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Growth in the maquila sector slowed in the first decade of the 21st century with rising competition from Asian markets, particularly China. |
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There is an East Asian community mostly consisting of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese. |
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The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers. |
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Contemporary state capitalism is associated with the East Asian model of capitalism, dirigisme and the economy of Norway. |
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In recent decades there have been several Asian countries with high rates of economic growth driven by capital investment. |
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This gave Europe some degree of protection from the peril of Central Asian invaders. |
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Central and western Europe, logistically more distant from the Central Asian heartland, proved less vulnerable to these threats. |
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Asian and African countries followed suit and began taking tentative steps toward forming their own respective continental associations. |
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They focus their study on five Asian nations including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines. |
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This produced a reaction which led to all the colonies restricting Chinese and other Asian immigration. |
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The trade imbalance caused Europeans to export large quantities of gold and silver to Mughal India in order to pay for South Asian imports. |
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Indian goods, especially those from Bengal, were also exported in large quantities to other Asian markets, such as Indonesia and Japan. |
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Japan veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of type O FMD virus, currently more common in Asian countries where FMD is endemic. |
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Halifax is home to a large South Asian community mainly of British Pakistanis from the Kashmir region. |
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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. |
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Bradford's only television station AAP TV caters for Bradford's large Asian community. |
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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. |
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In total, the size of its Asian community is much smaller than those in nearby towns such as Blackburn and Oldham. |
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Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral. |
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As the levels of education improved, many South East Asian countries became tiger economies. |
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Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The carp often called Asian carp are voracious feeders of plankton and can undercut an entire ecosystem, imperiling a range of native fish. |
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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. |
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The new drinks menu features mocktails such as kumquat and pink pepper spritzer and Asian pear sparkler. |
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Pungent fall apple, Asian pear, and honeysuckle with bright, creamy lemon and toasty spice. |
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For starters I could not choose between the seared scallops on spiced cauliflower puree with an Asian pear and shisho salad and the mussels. |
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Another man of Asian origin was also found dead in Wadi Maedeen of Nizwa province on Friday afternoon. |
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Set in a working Washeteria in London during the Thatcher era, this bold film focuses on relationships between white and Asian communities. |
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They are a sight more readily associated with Asian paddy fields than the Midlands, but water buffalo are definitely on the menu in Warwickshire. |
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The 2013 Southeast Asian Haze saw API levels reach a hazardous level in some countries. |
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Tourism has been a key factor in economic development for many Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia. |
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These schools recruit pupils worldwide, particularly from large emerging Asian economies. |
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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. |
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People fitting the middle definition are more usually known as British Asian or British Indian. |
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Burmese curries almost overwhelmingly lack coconut milk, setting them apart from most southeast Asian curries. |
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It is less spicy and seasoned than Indian and Southeast Asian curries, being more of a thick stew than a curry. |
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It was also majorly influenced from world music, especially African and Asian traditions. |
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Cricket was played in 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China and 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. |
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Many Asian countries have a tradition of playing rugby dating from the British Empire. |
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Rugby union has also been an Asian Games event since the 1998 games in Bangkok, Thailand. |
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Other international competitions also emerged in the late 20th century, including the Nations Cup and the Asian Netball Championship. |
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The seventh Asian games were held in 2009 and featured Singapore, Thailand, Maldives, Taiwan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, India and Pakistan. |
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It was the first time the T20 World Cup tournament took place in an Asian country. |
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Tendulkar was the first Asian player to represent Yorkshire, but he was an overseas player. |
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Tokyo, Japan will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making it the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games twice. |
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This policy was extended to the PGA Tour of Australasia in 1996, and most extensively to the Asian Tour. |
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Hawaii is the only state in the union in which Asian Americans outnumber white American residents. |
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In 2009, Hong Kong hosted the 5th East Asian Games and nine national teams competed in it. |
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During the Cold War, the Asian power of Japan and the European powers of the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany rebuilt their economies. |
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The percentage of immigrants who are Asian is increasing while the percentage who are Hispanic is decreasing. |
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The Central Asian Revolt started in the summer of 1916, when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service. |
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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. |
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Some of the earliest forms of Asian martial arts, such as kalarippayattu, musti yuddha, silambam, and marma adi, originated in India. |
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India has traditionally been the dominant country at the South Asian Games. |
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The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen. |
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In January 2011, the Asian Football Confederation's fifteenth Asian Cup was held in Qatar. |
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Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, thus becoming the first Asian city to host the Summer Games. |
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In addition to various levels of unrest in Europe, Asian countries have also seen various degrees of protest. |
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There were also stimulus plans in some Asian countries, in the Middle East and in Argentina. |
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East Asian paintings often bear multiple seals, including one or two seals from the artist, and the seals from the owners of the paintings. |
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This is characteristic of some Eastern European, Southern European and East Asian countries. |
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The Nagari script has been the primus inter pares of the traditional South Asian scripts. |
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The military rule and the unstable government in Pakistan has become a concern for the South Asian region. |
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African, eastern Asian, and European ancestry can be specified with a high degree of accuracy. |
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In 1972, Idi Amin announced that the entire Asian community in Uganda had 90 days to leave the country. |
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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. |
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For example, the late Alam Lohar is a good example of a classical South Asian folk singer of great repute. |
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The final station is the BBC Asian Network, providing music, talk and news to this section of the community. |
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It also sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London. |
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The national team has been to the FIBA Asian Championship in basketball eleven times. |
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Actually this site is the main entrance of illegal immigrants to the EU from the Asian continent. |
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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. |
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East Timorese cuisine has influences from Southeast Asian foods and from Portuguese dishes from its colonisation by Portugal. |
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The epicenter was Boston in no small part due to Isabella Stewart Gardner, a pioneering collector of Asian art. |
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Along with the Industrial Revolution, Asian style and emerging modernist ideas also influenced Mackintosh's designs. |
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In subsequent decades, several naturalists and explorers described wildcats from European, African and Asian countries. |
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Historical records indicate that Asian pigs were introduced into Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries. |
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Many East Asian countries rely on heavy industry as key parts of their overall economies. |
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East Asian seals usually bear the names of the people or organizations represented, but they can also bear poems or personal mottoes. |
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Trunk highways in China consist of China National Highways, Expressways in China, and Asian Highway Network. |
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Trunk highways in India consist of National Highway, Expressways in India, State highways in India, and Asian Highway Network. |
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From Van der Post, Prince Charles developed a focus on philosophy, especially that of Asian and Middle Eastern nations. |
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In Istanbul, ferries connect the European and Asian shores of Bosphorus, as well as Princes Islands and nearby coastal towns. |
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Many European and East Asian countries now have higher death rates than birth rates. |
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Racial tensions between blacks and Asians in Birmingham increased after the deaths of three Asian men at the hands of a black youth. |
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These declines were observed for attitudes towards Black and Asian ethnic minorities. |
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This usage contrasts to that in the United States, where it is used to refer to people of East Asian origin. |
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South Asian ethnic groups mostly originate from a few select places in South Asia, these are known as place of origins. |
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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. |
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A new generation of British Asian musicians have followed, such as Shizzio, 21 Perspective and Raxstar. |
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Bridgman and Williams based their system on the phonetic alphabet and diacritics proposed by Sir William Jones for South Asian languages. |
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Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule. |
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Shaobing is believed to be related to the Persian and Central Asian naan and the Near Eastern pita. |
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However, many Asian countries such as China are still to recognise the value of marshlands. |
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Asian exploitation of turtle nests has been cited as the most significant factor for the species' global population decline. |
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Since the mid 1990s, almost all the confirmed records of living animals in Asian waters were from Japanese coasts. |
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There are also sizeable numbers of Asian immigrants, most of whom are of Middle Eastern, South Asian and Chinese origin. |
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In addition, Portugal still ruled the Asian territories of Portuguese India, Portuguese Timor and Macau. |
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Indian connections to various Southeast Asian states buffered it from blockages on other routes. |
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The Incense Route served as a channel for trading of Indian, Arabian and East Asian goods. |
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It was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one. |
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Japan had become the rising Asian power and had proven that its military could combat the major powers in Europe with success. |
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S held strength in the Asian region from aggravating European imperialist encroachment. |
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To the Western powers, Japan's victory demonstrated the emergence of a new Asian regional power. |
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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. |
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Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making Tokyo the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice. |
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Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times. |
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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. |
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Improbably, in the Himalayas, brown bears are reportedly intimidated by Asian black bears in confrontations. |
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In this area, many subplates or crust blocks have been recognized, which form the Central Asian and the East Asian transit zones. |
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European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives. |
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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. |
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Finally they both considered that it might be unjust and unwise to exclude Asian traders, whether Chinese, Malay or Javanese, from the Moluccas by force. |
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Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States of India are culturally part of Southeast Asia and sometimes considered both South Asian and Southeast Asian. |
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No individual Southeast Asian country is religiously homogeneous. |
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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. |
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The distributional boundary between the ranges of European and Asian badgers is the Volga River, the European species being situated on the western bank. |
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In contrast, a study by several Asian Cancer Research Centers. |
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In the United States, nearly 100 percent of Asian Americans and Native Americans maldigest lactose because their amount of lactase activity is very low. |
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Outside South Asia, it is spoken by large numbers of migrant South Asian workers in the major urban centres of the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. |
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Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and other Asian foods are also popular. |
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Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have their own versions of curry. |
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In some Asian countries, the use of snakes in alcohol is also accepted. |
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Although technically a North African Ottoman region, those who settled Alexandria in Egypt are also included due to its cultural proximity to the West Asian provinces. |
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The second reason is that the Chinese television and music industry since the 1980s has broadcast television shows from their neighboring Asian societies and the West. |
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Also, on 26 December 2004, a tsunami, caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, hit the Asian countries on the Indian Ocean, including the Maldives. |
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The principal gallery devoted to Asian art in the museum is Gallery 33 with its comprehensive display of Chinese, Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asian objects. |
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