For India though ASEAN provides another channel to North East Asia, particularly China.
Such an arms race, she added, would destabilise North East Asia, "which is the principal reason why I think China is committed to do all that it can with us to try to remove that danger".
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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Soyabeans are native to north-east Asia (Japan, the Korean peninsular and north-east China).
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.
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.
"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.
The bridge and the government's rural road-development project will connect remote, underdeveloped regions of eastern Mongolia to the country's urban centres and north-east Asia.
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.
Five working groups on denuclearisation, the normalisation of relations with America and with Japan, economic assistance and the creation of a security mechanism for North-East Asia now resume work.
North-east Asia, meanwhile, was left trying to manage an awkward five-way balance between a rising China, a weakened Russia, a distracted America, an aspiring South Korea and an uncertain Japan.
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.
Tensions are not confined to North-East Asia.
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The wetland, which includes the coastal Unryul Migratory Birds Reserve, play an important conservation role as habitats for shore birds and critical areas for many migratory bird species of north-east Asia such as black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes) and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).
However, the yuan is already emerging as a trade settlement currency in North Asia and South East Asia.
It said travel demand to Europe, North America and South East Asia would help offset any impact of the 787 grounding.
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.
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.
Yet much of this area is well south of South Asia, big chunks of which are still north of the modern definition of East Asia.
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The danger, it is now assumed, lies in what Pentagon officials call an "arc of instability" that runs through the Caribbean Rim, Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea.
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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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Thousands have protested across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia against a film made in the US that depicts the Prophet Muhammad.
Huge improvements were registered not only in China but also in South-East Asia and north Africa, where dependency ratios fell by 40 points.
Under Hal Kvisle, who started as chief executive in September, Talisman is taking a more conservative financial approach and will focus on three core areas - the Americas, South East Asia and the North Sea.
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.
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.
It today includes religious groups from South and East Asia as well as Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America.
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