As far as is known, Merah made no reference to any central Asian group during his standoff with authorities.
Asian Group One is far less complicated with Australia and Japan already securing their places in South Africa, with only the honor of who finishes top of the table still to be decided.
They are currently leading their Asian qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup and appeared at the last World Cup in 2006.
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The only -- unlikely -- claim of responsibility for Merah's gun attacks so far has come from a recently-formed central Asian terror group -- Jund al Khilafah (JaK).
The point captured in searing temperatures in Riyadh, saw the Koreans edge into second place in Asian qualifying Group 2 to finish ahead of Saudi Arabia on goal difference and seal their place in the finals.
Japan still hold a six-point lead over Jordan, who moved from bottom to second, at the top of Asian qualifying Group B and the Blue Samurai will secure a place at next year's finals if they avoid defeat against Australia in June.
"If you compared a group of Asian executives with one of similar ages in the United States, the U.S. group would have more MBAs per head, " he told CNN.
While 39% of Asian-Americans say their group puts "too much" pressure on kids to succeed in school, 60% of Asian-Americans think that other Americans don't push their kids hard enough.
There are five black actors, two Hispanic actors and an Asian actor in that group alone.
Having been caught by the Asian crisis, the group may now enter a lengthy debt workout or even file for bankruptcy.
Hsia has been an active Democratic fund-raiser since the late 1980's when she headed the Los Angeles-based Pacific Leadership Council, a group of Asian-American contributors.
Khiem Do, head of Asian Multi-Assets Group at Baring Asset Management, said Asia markets would continue to benefit from a strong regional economy underpinned by Chinese growth.
The club was burned to the ground after petrol bombs were thrown by a group of Asian youths during the riots, which began on 7 July 2001.
She said she would run away with a friend to meet a group of Asian men in Oxford that she knew as K-Dog, Jammy, Khan and Acter.
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TOKYO The yen fell to nearly 100 against the U.S. dollar a level it hasn't crossed since April 2009 in Asian trading Monday after Group of 20 officials signaled approval of Japan's aggressive new monetary policy.
In 1996, a group of Asian investors including Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan of Hong Leong Malaysia, his Singaporean cousins who control Britain's listed Millennium Copthorne Hotels and Indonesian billionaire Liem Sioe Liong teamed up to buy over 21% of Brierley.
The scarcity of fuel within Iran's borders casts doubt on efforts by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to use oil and gas exports to split off Russia and Asian countries from the U.S. Ahmadinejad recently appeared at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led group of Asian energy users and exporters, to talk up potential gas pipelines to Pakistan and beyond.
The Asian economies now in the group are China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
On March 30-31, a group of South Asian leaders gathered in Dhaka for the first Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Simple Solutions.
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Top of the agenda was a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a group that includes Central Asian nations.
"Most of our members are still at home, " said Sunita Mehta of the group Sakhi for South Asian Women.
Asian students represent the second largest group of English learners.
"People are waking up to the possibility that perhaps Indonesia is not quite such the miraculous story as we had imagined, " said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, Singapore-based director for Asian economic research at Credit Suisse Group.
Injury stopped him making his Asian Cup debut until the final Group C game -- he won his 109th cap as a second-half substitute in Tuesday's 4-1 defeat by South Korea -- spurring him on to try and achieve the unthinkable: leading India to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The share of Asian newlyweds who married outside of their group dropped to 28% in 2010 from 31% in 2008.
The company saw growth both in its U.S. and Asian units, and its consumer products group (CPG) which houses its K-cup sales.
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Two teams from each group go into the final Asian qualifying stage.
Australia, who have two more matches to play in Group A of the final Asian qualifying phase, have 14 points from six matches.
In attempting its current restructuring, Acer faces a formidable Asian rival in China's Lenovo Group, which ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the world's biggest PC maker.
Elsewhere in the Asian Cup, Iran comfortably topped the group with a maximum nine points -- the only nation to achieve that target -- after cruising to a 3-0 victory over United Arab Emirates despite fielding a weakened side.
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