Before the crisis, Southeast Asian countries relied heavily for their expansion on intra-Asian trade.

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This is a common building practice in some of the more impoverished and rural areas of Southeast Asian countries.

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It will offer 24-hour infotainment channels on satellite in different Southeast Asian countries.

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The vast majority of them hid in China and Southeast Asian countries including Laos, Thailand and Vietnam before flying to Seoul.

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The project aims to cover all Southeast Asian countries in different phases, initially focusing on Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Southeast Asian countries are suffering because the world lacks confidence in their money as a store of value, and lacks confidence in the leadership that supposedly stands behind it.

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Exports to Japan recovered somewhat, rising 2.2 percent from a -6.7 percent in August, and exports to southeast Asian countries rose to 25.5 percent year over year from 10.3 percent in August.

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We may be sure Beijing's continued encroachments on the South China Sea will speed up security cooperation among the Southeast Asian countries -- and between them and the U.S. But for the moment the ASEAN countries are betting economic development will work to bind the countries of the region in ties of mutual benefit.

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She looked at me with those full eyes, the kind that peek out of the tourist brochures for Southeast Asian cruises that stop in seven countries in seven days.

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Dean is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and oversees operations in the ten member-countries of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations, to which Myanmar belongs.

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While the bulk of Indian exports is buffalo meat bound for Middle East and Southeast Asian markets, the growing middle class in Arab countries has sparked a new craving for cow beef.

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The EAS was launched in 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bringing together leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six other Asia-Pacific region countries.

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The trees are indigenous to Southeast Asia and their leaves have been used as a traditional medicine in Thailand and Asian countries for centuries.

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