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The sale showed that Asian collectors were still prepared to pay high prices for wine, even in a global economic slowdown.

In the west pagodas are symbolic of Asian architecture but the spiritual aspect of the structure is often overlooked.

The Asian Development Bank said there was enough food to go round, and the key was to help the poor afford it.

That optimism stems partly from an underestimation of how much Asian growth has been hitched to the wagon of western consumption.

IISS says that with so much attention focused on China and India, the naval expansion of other Asian countries is often overlooked.

He pointed out that Asian companies seem to be leading the way in terms of the convergence of business with design.

He said the skull doesn't actually look European, or Asian, or African. It looks like a mixture of all of them.

He said developing Asian countries should follow the example of Singapore, South Korea and China to put together investment plans.

Optimism about western strength is often combined with a certain scepticism about the "Asian miracle " .

Clinton's visit to Malaysia is part of her 13-day trip to meet with leaders of at least eight East Asian and Pacific nations.

After all, for most of our history we humans have been a resolutely land-locked African, Asian and European species.

Pyongyang said the rocket put a satellite in orbit, but the US and its Asian allies saw it as a long-range missile test.

North Korea's relationships in the Northeast Asian region could also improve as it abandons its nuclear weapons and programs, he said.

When he took over the Obituaries in 1995, just after their launch, he kept the Asian flag flying.

For all the pomp and circumstance of his four-nation Asian tour, Barack Obama was seen to leave Seoul a diminished president.

Q. What was the overall experience to be close to being the first Asian to win a major championship? You're the first finalist anyway.

2005 was a year of many crises and emergencies, starting with the relief and reconstruction efforts following the Asian Tsunami.

The gunman reportedly was a 41-year-old man of Asian descent who'd recently been laid off from his job with IBM.

So he moved, married, and, with his wife, had a baby girl who was counted on the last census as black, white and Asian.

He made his announcement just as members of Zanu-PF were visiting Asian countries to drum up support.

In a way, these photo festivals "prove" to the world that Southeast Asian photographers are only good enough to be "reviewed" .

But all that seems to be changing, with Southeast Asian artists leading the recovery.

Also in terms of demand, the Southeast Asian markets seem to be doing quite all right, on low price levels though.

A bit of me: My hobby is reading fiction books (Agatha Christie, Sidney Sheldon, Robin Cook), besides study asian culture.

How much longer can the Asian allure hold?

Many Asian historians say that was the result of an unfair treaty forced upon the Korean kingdom.

These projects will take place in two Latin American and four Asian countries, three of which have had human H5N1 influenza cases.

Asian markets have continued to perform strongly, with MSCI country indices across the region posting large rises over the past two years.

Now investment-bank reports are beginning to talk of it as a new Asian "tiger" .

There was no disorder in areas with large Asian populations, including in London; CCTV pictures suggest there were few Asian looters.

He said he hoped the country could become "the Asian Roundabout" for trade on "the new Silk Road" with "a dynamic service sector" .

One thing it would not be is an Internet company with a strong Asian footprint.

One of the issues spooking Asian investors is the sluggish nature of growth in Europe.

But self-confidence is not an ideology, and the much-touted Asian model of development does not seem to be an exportable product.

Other Asian economies, including Japan and South Korea, did not perform as strongly, however, amid slackening demand from beyond the region.

Korean-born Jeannie Cho Lee, the only Asian among the world's 279 Masters of Wine, spent two years trying to puzzle out precisely that.

China is ready to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with all the East Asian countries on climate change.

Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.

A fundamental requirement for the Asian model was that foreigners were able to run the requisite trade deficits.

That hope ignored the fact that, with the exception of Japan, no Asian economy yet possesses anything like the scale to play such a role.

Contagion is the answer, just as it was during the Asian financial crisis of a decade ago.

At a regional Asian gathering in July 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the "United States is back" in Asia.

He would like to see others from outside Europe, such as Asian and Pacific Rim countries, signing up to the accord.

through carefully evaluated , we decided to adopt the doraemon who had a deep effect for asian culture to be the style of the robot.

Now they must persuade us all that long Asian cars, not large American SUVs, are the best things to drive.

I suppose if we were to move to a cheap Asian country, $10, 000 a year is enough to live with like a king.

'Some Asian bosses just think you're earning a bit of pocket money and shouldn't be earning more than your husband.

And third, that the US businessman might be ready to follow his European and Asian colleagues and adopt a trimmer silhouette.

Growing up in Philadelphia, in a very poor urban neighborhood, I was almost always the only Asian, let alone Chinese kid in school.

Asian men don't realize that yoga requires a great deal of power, especially in Flow and Ashtanga, to be able to do jumps and arm balances.

Today, most Asian countries are trying to find ways to encourage more creativity, individuality and leadership in their children.

Still, it is possible that the biggest change in America's Asian diplomacy will be to put global warming near the heart of it.

Ground up and added to liquids, rhino horn has been used for millennia in traditional Asian medicine to treat fevers and other ailments.

"Macro growth does not always translate into profitability, " Joe Bae, co-head of KKR's Asian operations, said at a recent conference.

Asian banks are trying to gain ground at a time when the rich may be looking to put more money into Asia.

Asian policy-makers have been trying to balance currency management with controlling inflation.

The cuisine of Cambodia is similar to that of its Southeast Asian neighbours.

However, this was more than compensated by a very strong absolute and relative performance for the Asian top-picks.

But the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which houses the most fervent advocates of a joined-up Asia, seems to be winning the battle.

It's time to stop talking about the Asian century before it has arrived and focus on what is needed to make it a reality.

One reason was that there was a powerful Asian example of how reform might be carried out: Japan.

The company is developing such a brand to be rolled out from 2011 throughout Asian markets.

My Asian skin allows me to tan relatively easy and I never have to spend any money or time or suffer through sunburn.

He retraced the junks' routes around the globe and found shoreside marker stones, carved in a host of Asian languages, all over the world.

The construction area of the Guangzhou Asian Games City is around 358, 000 square meters. How much is the coverage area?

posted a 19% rise in annual profits despite a sharp increase in staff costs as the bank fights a "war for talent" in its key Asian markets.

But as an Asian acquaintance of his had remarked, a bubble is what you call it if you failed to get in at the beginning.

Asian airline staff said the company worked out the new fares will be introduced after the corresponding offer.

It was the last of its kind to have lived on the Asian mainland; a few dozen remain on Java.

He says the 'candle cut' is an old tradition which has lost out to scissors over the years, reports Asian Age.

In terms of race, Mr. Sequeira is identified as Asian-American while his wife is white of European ancestry.

I joke that I can tell how much space my Asian clients are going to buy by how elaborate their feng shui kit is.

Thailand's is not the only Asian economy hooked on cheap labour. Neighbouring Malaysia also depends on millions of guest-workers.

However, in late Asian trading we are beginning to see some Usd buying interest.

I think we're not over the hill yet, but at least we did not suffer the kind of losses that the Asian markets had.

How much you know about the East Asian Game?

Therefore, in his lab except one of Germen origin, the rest five were all Asian origin.

'It's better to be an Asian bank in California than a Hispanic bank in Texas, ' he said, referring to East West's reach into China itself.

The stock markets of the small, exporting Asian nations have continued to attract investors, helped by surging Chinese equities.

I'm getting many offers from Asian countries to release an album. But now is not the time. I have to make a strong presence in Korea first.

The English words of the "Asian Olympic Committee" were at the bottom of it for identification and promotion.

Thang points out that poor English skills make it harder for Southeast Asian immigrants to leave town and transition into other jobs.

A deal would more than double the size of the company and mean that its business would be dominated by Asian sales and profits.

Now that a new Asian elite can pay the earth for it, a new international poaching mafia is scouring the planet to satisfy that demand.

They said that at least 12 Asian countries pushed Friday at the Hanoi meeting for a dispute mechanism to be established.

As the city begins to heat up for summer, some foreign residents will celebrate the beginning of the wet season in other Asian countries.

The Asian financial crisis hit China just as it was making a painful economic adjustment after the bust of a credit boom in the mid-1990s.

Asian investors are looking at it (the euro zone crisis) and saying that they want to be out of euro assets, and even Bunds.

But in the Asian concept of personality there is no ideal attached to individualism or to the independent self.

They were all of Asian descent. And they weren't speaking any English, at least not that I heard.

Asian investors are looking at it (the euro zone crisis) and saying that they want to be out of euro assets, and even Bunds.

But in the Asian concept of personality there is no ideal attached to individualism or to the independent self.

They were all of Asian descent. And they weren't speaking any English, at least not that I heard.

John forecasts that the Asian market is going to pick up in a couple of months.

Turmeric: This powerful Asian spice contains a natural anti-inflammatory compound, curcumin, which is often found in curry blends.

On the face of it, it seems as if most Asian nations are still emulating this western model.

In Asian politics, what you see is often the opposite of what you get.

INDONESIA IS OFTEN ECLIPSED by its more vocal neighbor, China, or its more prosperous Asian colleague, Japan.

It was hard to quietly close to the surface of the body, without any publicity, the quality and elegant as submissive Asian woman.

For the moment, at least, history appears to be marching to an Asian drumbeat.

The battle for the last basis point of yield did not happen and this helped Asian banks to come out of the crisis relatively well-placed.

In a conversation with someone not Asian, he may ask if she could teach him to say something in Cantonese.

Nissan happens to be one among the top 3 Asian companies that have been able to manufacture highest number of cars.

Holywood's Golden Globe Awards seem to be going Asian this year. as filmmaker " Memoirs Of A Geisha" s Ziyi Zhang.

Whether Asian economies are up to that long-term challenge is something on which fortune tellers might usefully comment.

Mr Sands said that the bank had continued to make good progress in the third quarter as its core Asian markets rebounded.

As you know, BYJ emphasized Asian cultural exchange and Asian Wave rather than Korean Wave.

Some major Asian stock markets edged downward Tuesday morning as swine flu fears continued to hit stocks across the globe.

Forget China and the Asian Games. Dear everyone, India is no longer considered in the same league as China, whatever we may wish to think.

As long as China stayed in the war, hundreds of thousands of imperial Japanese Army soldiers could be tied down on the Asian mainland.

Yes, there are. It has been used for the 5th National Games, Asian Basketball Tournament in 1988 and many national basketball competitions.

Asian shares were lower while U. S. stock futures were pointing to a bit of a rebound after a sharp sell-off on Wednesday.

Liberty, Asian-inspired, or tropical, get ready to see a real explosion of floral prints for the upcoming season.

But it was a blip, and China was even able to export corn to some Asian neighbors for a while.

The Asian giant is so powerful, in fact, that it could -- if it chose -- help the White House end the debt-ceiling impasse.

The easy-going nature of Southeast Asian workers is not always suited to Taiwan - style management.

Thailand is the last leg of his Asian tour, prior to which he visited Pakistan, India and Malaysia.

Japanese authorities released the boat captain late last week, but tensions between the two Asian neighbors have not entirely subsided.

On the surface pressure fields, a strongly warm low center over the African-Asian continents weakens through the abrupt change.

British Prime Minister Major rushed back from Pakistan yesterday for a crucial parliamentary vote after a week-long South Asian tour.

A third, much debated, explanation for Asian resilience is what some economists regard as a structural pick-up in consumer demand.

Either of a pair of thin sticks that are used for eating with, especially in some Asian countries.

Summer camp kids get a hand with an old Asian tradition, with a twist, pounding rice cakes infused with blueberry juice.

Asian central banks have been trying to help by stepping up market intervention in an attempt to restrain currency appreciation.

a South Asian countries in a work of the United Nations Children's Fund staff on the ground to take such a picture.

The total value works out to US$234 a subscriber, which he said is the lowest figure in the Asian-Pacific region.

"A wine is not going to make a meal so much better, " she says, "Asian flavours and the intensity of those flavours are already so high. "

" There's also an old Asian saying that I remind myself of frequently. It goes like this: " A wise man keeps his own counsel.

For its part, then, China's approach to the U. S. seems to meet the needs of an Asian Concert. But its approach to Japan does not.

"Asian governments have been preparing for the slowdown for over a year, " Mr Geoghegan said.

During the flight, he attended the washroom and emerged as an Asian looking male that appeared to be in his early 20s.

Some people took delight in comparing the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games with that of the Beijing Olympic Games.

The company said the plane, the camera starts at $ 286, 000, in the fierce bidding bid after it was bought by an Asian collector.

When I got to college I decided to take an elective titled A Survey of East Asian Cultures.

Clearly it will not be easy to create a new strategic system in Asia capable of managing the power-shifts of the Asian Century.

Asian culture tends to focus on English reading and grammar and not so much on conversational speaking.

The bank warned that although China's remarkable resilience will benefit its Asian neighbours, its effect would be limited.

It seems like an odd title for an article written by an Asian Supremacist, but there are very good reasons why I hate many of my own kind.

Beijing looks as if it is formulating an east Asian version of America's Monroe Doctrine.

I loved the fact that he had such a great time performing. Even his All Star Asian band members looked like they were having a blast.

Deer Products have been used as preventative and healing medicine in many Asian countries for thousands of years.

It is with humbleness , great pride and a sense of trepidation that I deliver the maiden speech as the first MP of Asian ethnic origin.

Asian countries put much more emphasis on status differences, he said -- and American-style humor could upset those corporate hierarchies.

However, beware those with an insufficient level of knowledge to be able to advise properly on what are relatively complex Asian markets.

The Filipino character is actually a little bit of all the cultures put together, yet deeply rooted in Asian traditions and values.

The situation, however, was still far better than the "dark days of the late 1990s" , during the Asian financial crisis.

In London, we shall seek to co-operate with other Asian central banks in promoting the Asian economies to the markets and investors.

But the views of Asian governments do not always chime with those of their public.

So what kind of influence would the city of GZ get by hosting the Asian Games - you know, such big international sports event?

East Asian countries with more SOEs than China (North Korea and Vietnam) are poorer, just as you'd expect.

The planned departure of the two men comes at a time when many Asian funds are going through a generational shift.

To many Asian-Americans, Charlie Chan is an offensive stereotype, another sort of Uncle Tom.

You are the only Asian on this list that does not know what Bubble Tea is.

Ding said he is soon to publish another study in Science predicting Asian monsoon activity over the next 100 years.

"The future will be US-based teachers tutoring Asian students via broadband connections, " said the company.

All the major characters to have featured in her love life, including her current boyfriend, have been Asian.

"It's been a phenomenal start to the year for the China market, " said Terence Chia, of Citigroup's Asian debt syndication team.

LL: But, Professor Jones is the head honcho of the East Asian Studies Department, and you know him.

Citi must be able to move fast to maintain its solid share of the fast-growing Asian capital markets, where mega deals are clinched in days.

However, Asian capitalism has always put a premium on job creation and employment, and here the West can learn quite a bit from Asia.

on his first full day of his asian tour for reebok , allen iverson displayed those three qualities and a whole lot more.

I had followed Islam for years, having grown up in an area of Burnley that was almost exclusively Asian.

Whether one adhere to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped.

Mark Wilson has said he would step down once the deal closed because the proposed combination of the two Asian businesses was "unworkable" .

But the written languages of many Asian countries are composed of so many characters that this multi-tap approach will not work.

Many Asian women believe it is not respectful for a woman to smoke and consider women who smoke to be uneducated.

US President Barack Obama is to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the last day of his much-watched visit to the rising Asian nation.

France's INSEAD has opened a campus in Singapore to put it at the heart of the Asian miracle.

On this stage, this Asian player wore a bright smile to tell the world--Asian players have made a great step on major tennis tournaments.

Many Prudential shareholders are relieved at the collapse of the company's attempt to buy the Asian operations of American insurer AIG.

Be when facing up to Asian reality come a few years, east Asia a batch of countries with " wild goose goes " means is volant and towering.

In the case of Asian inspired furniture it could be a search for a more Zen-like interior space or drama.

He was a perceptive analyst of the Asian crisis and has been a sharp, witty defender of globalisation.

People familiar with the discussions said the management of Lehman's Asian operations had hired Rothschild to advise on the possible sale.

Asian stock markets, despite a recent rally, have tumbled in recent months on concerns over the state of the U. S. economy.

It was the first Asian country to move into recession when the crisis hit home in 2008, and the first to start growing again a year ago.

It Exudes A Deep Character Of Its Own At Once Asian And Yet Harking The Colonial.

As a son of a former Jewish resident in China, Olmert said he had a spiritual tie with the Asian country.

A recent Xinhua article notes the Chinese preoccupation with other Asian teams and calls it a 'bittersweet moment' for Chinese soccer fans.

Compared with that of East Asian tigers, it often seems back to front.

Four and a half years ago, U. S. officials began an investigation into a cigarette-smuggling conspiracy involving Asian organized crime.

We do not know how to close the gap in reading, science and math between Anglo and Asian students and black and Hispanic students.

So much of the piece is an accurate reflection of a specific brand of hard-ass Asian parenting.

Tea is one of the many common and natural dietary staples in Asian cultures shown by modern science to have multiple unique health benefits.

Since the start Feng Hui has grown along with the Asian shipbuilding industry and is now a well established marine service provider.

Sharp gains in other Asian markets also gave a boost to the Tokyo bourse, where investors continued to pick up recently battered shares.

Malaysian aviation magnate AirAsia is trying to build "small, fun and affordable sports cars" which cater to Asian consumers.

And it was no accident that the first state visit hosted by President and Mrs. Obama was for an Asian leader, Indian Prime Minister Singh.

The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths.

War broke out in 1939 and over the next six years Europe was flattened and Asian industrial cities were considerably damaged.

It said the move would promote unity and help tourists and athletes who will arrive in the city for the Asian Games this November.

In Asian men, however, many Americans are more likely to see the mark of an unsavory, untrustworthy alien.

Luo Xinmei and her NGO, the Asian Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, are trying to save wild animals by changing Chinese tastes.

It's an important Asian player with global interests and impact, but is still unable to take a leadership role in the region.

WHO says H5N1 virus is widespread in birds, particularly poultry which seems to be the source of the Asian infections.

Doha Asian Games, as the last Asian Games before Beijing Olympic Games, its sports presentation can be a model for Beijing Olympic Games.

Malaysia has, indeed, continued to be very much a success story, after the brutal shock caused by the Asian financial crisis.

This was illustrated by the sharp bounce Asian markets enjoyed from expectations that Mr Wen would announce such a package.

Those in African countries are keenest to leave, whereas Asian respondents were happiest where they were.

Perhaps it was because in a sport dominated by Americans, no one believed that an Asian could come in and become a star.

These remnants of several love affairs have so far shown in Croatia, London, Berlin, and Singapore is their first Asian stop.

But this mirrors many east Asian economies and also that of the US during its own industrialisation in the 20th century.

As a makeup artist and an Asian American student of Asian Women's Studies, I would like to explore this with you.

"Relative to where we were in 1998 during the Asian crisis, there is a much stronger degree of consensus, " he said.

Asian countries have the ammunition for such a fight after amassing record foreign exchange reserves since the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Asian stocks enjoyed a strong rally yesterday as expectations of a cut in US interest rates gave a boost to financial and property groups.

But if oil stays this high for weeks on end, or if it goes even higher, Asian economies and consumers are likely to feel the pinch.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just opened a station in California to track Asian dust as it passes over the U.

Across the company, robust Asian demand almost entirely offset falling sales of brandy, champagne, jewelry and watches.

He noted that the new year will also be celebrated by Asian-Americans in cities and towns across the United States.

The company has strong sales network, products are sold in Europe over the years, the Southeast Asian market, praised by users.

But we did have to pause for a while in between, when the resumption of sovereignty approached, followed by the Asian financial crisis.

Chinese leadership did not blink in the face of the Asian crisis of 1997 and stayed steadfastly on the course of market reforms.

The US could certainly destroy the Asian exchange rate pegs if it wished to do so, as it did with the protectionist "Nixon shock" in 1971.

From Japan to Vietnam, Asian nations have cozied up to the U. S. as a geopolitical counterweight to their giant neighbor.

The Sino-Japanese war indeed raises many crucial issues about East Asian history, and I would encourage you to explore them further.

Australia recently joined the Asian Football Confederation and from the next World Cup will contest for one of their qualification spots.

Asian students (12 percent) are the least likely to work 20 or more hours a week.

It is a decade since the Asian financial crisis began to roll across the globe.

Africans are now just as keen on an Asian medicine: artemisinin, a highly effective malaria remedy derived from a Chinese shrub.

have issued blunt warnings at the beginning of a tour of southeast Asian nations grappling with bird flu outbreaks.

China made that announcement after Mrs Clinton decided to visit the country on her prolonged Asian tour.

Co-operation would also be vulnerable to any new friction between the Asian neighbours.

The idea that Western faces give more prestige than Asian faces is only one of the unattractive aspects of this cultural mindset.

China was Clinton's final stop on a four-nation Asian tour that also took her to Japan, Indonesia and South Korea.

In most of the South Asian countries the psychiatrist alone will not be able to cater to the mental health needs of the population.

In the beginning there were several Asian-American independent bookstores that refused to carry the book after thumbing through it.

China is ready to join other Asian countries including Malaysia to bring more peace, stability, development and prosperity in Asia.

And many of these artistic and cultural innovations are, more often than not, inspired and informed by an Asian flair.

In the stock market, the last time China began to allow its currency to strengthen, it helped fuel a huge bull market in Asian stocks.

The forum is an attempt to carve out a niche for Indonesia in Asian diplomacy.

The issue is the extent to which the US and its Asian friends can participate directly in multilateral regional institutions.

The exact origin of the street's unusual name is uncertain, but it just as well might stand for pan-Asian.

Like a number of its Asian neighbours, the Philippines has begun to rebound from the economic downturn.

China isn't the only Asian nation with a strong emerging middle class.

While Friday US equity session closed on a positive note, Asian regional indexes have been unable to hold the positive tone.

The Usd continued to gain strength in the Asian session, as escalating problems in the European banking sector unnerved participants.

It would be the largest bilateral accord America has struck since NAFTA was passed in 1993, as well as the first with a large Asian economy.

Mr Friedman notes that South-East Asian governments still sometimes talk as if there were no home-grown paedophiles.

The genome could also help farmers avoid Asian soybean rust disease, a highly destructive fungus spread by the wind.

The protracted length of the war and the devastating consequences it caused are something rarely seen in the Asian history.

Forecasters always seem to underestimate the ability of the Asian tigers to rebound from recessions.

"I later found out they copied the performance from foreign crush fetishists' websites as Asian people rarely make such films, " he said.

Second, speed up the building of Asian bond market and provide financial support for the long-term development of Asia.

The Cold War and South Asian cases represent dyadic arms buildups -- a scenario that cannot be ruled out in the Middle East.

The result: Some Asian palm-oil producers have scrapped their plans for biodiesel refineries, and only a few new plants have come on line.

Many Asian Americans come from an educated elite in their native countries. Their children seem to do especially well.

Asian stocks hit lows for this month as Beijing's moves to curb property speculation and the stronger yen continued to weigh on bourses.

Even a serious US slowdown could be good news for some Asian countries that were showing signs of overheating, he said.

any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body.