But the important changes affecting security now taking place in North-East Asia are of more concern.
Yet a Chinese general disapproved of the meeting and bluntly told Banyan that America's alliances in North-East Asia were intended to threaten China.
Recent revised dates for other hominid occupation sites in North-East Asia show that human habitation of the region began about 1.3 million years ago.
One of the worst-kept secrets in North-East Asia is that its neighbours dread the regime's collapse, given the costs that picking up the pieces will entail.
They say a nuclear arms race could be beginning in north-east Asia, which would be a convenient way to acknowledge North Korea's nuclear deterrent at last.
Iwakuni is America's most important base in north-east Asia, being its closest airfield to North Korea and within easy reach of other potential hotspots, such as Taiwan.
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However, the yuan is already emerging as a trade settlement currency in North Asia and South East Asia.
The numbers of people living in poverty is likely to drop sharply in East and South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, with sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind.
Talisman Energy continues to operate independently in North America and South-East Asia.
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This effort, pertaining to jackup rig needs, remains most evident in Mexico, the North Sea, the Middle East and increasingly in Asia.
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Huge improvements were registered not only in China but also in South-East Asia and north Africa, where dependency ratios fell by 40 points.
TOKYO Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East.
And obviously we continue to work together very closely in terms of security in East Asia, whether that's issues of how North Korea operates and making sure that they actually implement a denuclearization process, or thinking about the long-term security structures in East Asia.
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Sir Run Run co-founded Television Broadcasting Limited (TVB), which has footprints in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as Chinese communities in South East Asia, Europe and North America.
The Chinese have totally outsmarted Moscow by keeping Russia on the hook, all while landing major supply side fish in Central Asia, Australasia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and even North America.
Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.
The free-to-play game continues to gain steam around the globe, with an All-Star week in Shanghai, China that kicks off May 25 with the best players in five regions from around the world (North America, Europe, China, Korea and South East Asia) who were voted in by the community.
Most of these countries are in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet states.
The EPL clubs are building global brands by setting up business units in Asia, the Middle East and North America.
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The states mainly affected are Perak in the north and Negeri Sembilan in the centre, where the largest concentrations of pig farms in South-East Asia are found.
EU's trade commissioner, has touted the idea around South-East Asia, having previously promoted it in North America.
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The U.S. administration is divided on North Korea, not only because its partners in East Asia have all but ruled out the first option, but because it is not sure what Pyongyang wants.
The report also shows significant increases in Aids-related deaths in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
"It would be a grave provocation threatening the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and north-east Asia, " the ministry said in a statement.
Most North Korean refugees leave via China and head for nations in South East Asia, from where they can get to South Korea - which provides financial assistance and training.
But Pentagon officials say their plate is full with the war in Afghanistan and with permanent military deployments in the Middle East and Asia to counter threats from Iran and North Korea.
But he believes more cores are needed from different regions, and is proposing to drill in other parts of the Arctic, notably areas north of Russia and east Asia, to establish the global pattern.
Thousands have protested across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia against a film made in the US that depicts the Prophet Muhammad.
North Korea's test-firing of a less powerful Taepodong 1 rocket over Japan into the Pacific in August 1998 had alarmed its neighbours and sent seismic shudders through North-East Asia's delicate security balance.
Coming as such disengagement does - at the very moment that dangers to those interests in regions from the Middle East to North Africa to Central, South and East Asia to the Western hemisphere, the administration must be held accountable for creating (whether intentionally or simply as a practical matter) dangerous vacuums of power.
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