He says this year the region's economies will grow at the most sluggish pace since the Asian financial crisis a decade ago.

他说，今年亚洲各国的增长速度会很慢，将是10年前的亚洲金融风暴以来最低的。

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Average growth in emerging Asia might fall to only 4-5% in 2009 as a whole, half its pace in 2007 and the slowest rate since the Asian financial crisis.

新兴亚洲国家的平均增长速度也许在2009年会整体落至4 - 5%，是其2007年的速度的一半，也是自亚洲金融危机以来最慢的速度。

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As we all know, the "rice bowl" culture of China has influenced some Asian countries such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam since we started to use chopsticks while eating food.

众所周知，自从我们开始使用筷子吃饭以来，中国的“饭碗”文化已经影响了一些亚洲国家，如日本、韩国和越南。

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The Commonwealth Games are the biggest multi-sport event to be staged in India since the Asian games in 1982.

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Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

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Those flows reflect the general perception that emerging-market economies have improved substantially since the Asian crisis of 1997-98.

ECONOMIST: In emerging markets, the bond-market dogs lose their bite

The task has assumed more urgency since the Asian crisis, which drew attention to the perils of lax accounting.

ECONOMIST: Accounting

Since the Asian crisis, these countries have kept their currencies down, exporting like mad to restore their external balances.

ECONOMIST: Asian currencies