China's exports are still mostly low-end manufactures, such as toys and shoes, which do not usually compete head-on with South-East Asia's higher-end products, such as electronics.
Asia Pacific brews some of the most popular beers in fast-growing South-East Asia, including Anchor and Tiger, and recently expanded its business in Mongolia.
Hyundai of South Korea plans an ultra-low-cost car for South-East Asia and Fiat is hooking up with India's Tata.
Now, however, thanks to their countries' economic woes, fewer parents in South Korea, as well as in other parts of East Asia and in South-East Asia, can afford the fees.
More than 55, 000 people are thought to die from rabies each year, with most cases occurring in south and south-east Asia.
These are Indo-European, Bantu, Austronesian (from South-East Asia and the Pacific) and Uto-Aztecan (the native vernaculars of the Americas).
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It is not wild-eyed to view South-East Asia as a last frontier, with a lot of fresh ears waiting to hear Beethoven.
The prospect of peace in Mindanao has quickly prompted speculation about whether this model could help resolve other long-running insurgencies in South-East Asia.
Oji Paper, a Japanese giant that uses fast-growing eucalyptuses from South-East Asia, has put carrot genes into them so they can flourish in acid soil.
Once again, the seven FEI zones of the world come into play: North-West Europe, South-West Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and South-East Asia and Oceania.
Before Asia's economic slump in 1997, Indonesia had become Australia's second-biggest export market in South-East Asia.
More than 90 people have died of H5N1 bird flu since the disease's resurgence in December 2003 - most of them in South-East Asia.
For it points to a disturbing resemblance between the car industries in South America and South-East Asia.
They left Tuvalu on Wednesday, ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.
Until now, the economic troubles of East and South-East Asia have looked dramatic but not serious.
Overall, the investment rate in East and South-East Asia is now close to the average in Japan, a much richer country.
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Youth unemployment is expected to rise in emerging economies in Eastern Europe, East and South-East Asia and the Middle East, according to the report.
Similar subregional initiatives are proliferating in South, Central and South-East Asia.
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It is now all over East and South-East Asia, was launched in India last autumn and, in August, will be rolled out all over Latin America.
India's economic ties with East and South-East Asia fall short.
The saving surplus in East and South-East Asia is the legacy of a bust both more recent and more spectacular than the 1970s oil shocks: the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98.
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Emirates has also thrived by entering markets in the rest of the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, India and Latin America that had hitherto been poorly connected to the global air-transport network because of over-regulation, the absence of a strong local flag carrier and the indifference of established airlines.
Americans hope that the Australian deal will set an example of closer co-operation with other allies, especially in South-East Asia.
South-East Asia's subsidy-slashing is doing it plenty of good and little harm, says David Fyfe of the International Energy Agency.
In fact, many observers dismiss South-East Asia's new-found piety precisely because it seems to have more to do with fashion than conviction.
For all that, Carrefour's retreat from South-East Asia may be ill-timed.
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As the climate has worsened in Japan, they have simply moved more of their business offshore: first, following the sex-tourists, to the Philippines and the rest of South-East Asia, and more recently to Latin America and even Europe.
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The result is that what the Chinese took to be a solid, mutually beneficial relationship with the Burmese has exploded in their faces with long-term consequences for Myanmar, the balance of power in South-East Asia and the whole way that China does business with poorer countries.
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In some manufacturing sectors, South-East Asia was able to leap-frog into new technologies because it could attract foreign investment.
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