The centre of world economic and commercial activity from about the eighth and ninth centuries until around the dawn of the 18th century was the area encompassed by the Islamic empires, India, Southeast Asia and the coastal areas of China.
The vast majority of them hid in China and Southeast Asian countries including Laos, Thailand and Vietnam before flying to Seoul.
Starr compete in AIG's strongholds of China, Russia and Southeast Asia.
Books such as The World Is Flat and The Elephant and The Dragon have chronicled the rapid rise of China, India, Southeast Asia and eastern Europe, et al. Of course, many factors from supply-side tax policies to open trade have contributed to the global boom.
At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.
Many other firms headquartered in Tokyo, like Sony, Hitachi and Honda Motors, have long ago spread their operations to the far reaches of the Japanese archipelago, Southeast Asia, China and beyond.
"A lot of manufacturing has moved to Southeast Asia and China, but we still want to maintain Taiwan as an innovation center, " says York Liao, chief secretary of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development.
That was when the wars in South Vietnam and Cambodia finally came to a tumultuous end, raising the prospect of the rest of Southeast Asia tumbling behind them into the lap of either the Soviet Union or China.
The company is based in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, and its clients include worldwide leaders in game software, hardware, and services, as well as hedge funds, media companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms, all of whom have a vested interest in a thorough understanding of the games industry in Southeast Asian and China.
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The U.S. is specifically seeking to use the offices of Asean as a mechanism through which to press U.S. interests and to galvanize the Southeast Asian states in the face of China's growing military power.
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The Commerce Department says 5.4 million manufacturing jobs left the U.S. between 2000 and 2009 to settle in lower-wage destinations such as China, India and other parts of Southeast Asia.
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Geographically, the old capital was in the extreme southeast corner of the country, near the border with China, and cut off from the rest of the republic.
It is number one in each of the fastest-growing markets--China, Southeast Asia and India--and its global sales and manufacturing are so well honed that Nokia takes 80% of the industry's profit on 38% of the volume.
Clinton then praised Beijing for entering into discussions with the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, on a "binding code of conduct" for their activities in the South China Sea.
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For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.
In the meantime, it's the China-North Korea relationship that the savviest of Southeast Asia investors are watching most closely.
Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to attend the East Asia Summit, a gathering of 10 Southeast Asian nations and other regional powers, such as China, South Korea and Japan.
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Soren Petersen, Nokia's senior vice president in charge of sales of its lowest-price phones, often takes groups of 80 employees into homes in rural China, Africa and Southeast Asia to see how they live with Nokia mobiles.
So far, all the known executions by lethal injection in China have taken place in the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering Southeast Asia.
The growth of India and China also creates opportunity for other emerging players, particularly in Southeast Asia by creating markets for goods and services as well as investment capital.
The colourful and highly elaborate festival, which thrives here and is only beginning to be revived in China, attract tens of thousands of Mazu adherents from Taiwan and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Mr. Dhanin's CP Group is planning to expand Siam Makro throughout Southeast Asia, and even into Pakistan and China, said Korsak Chairasmisak, chief executive of CP ALL at a briefing Tuesday.
That said, the silver tycoons of Southeast Asia may tell a story of comparative stasis when set against the new wealth being created in China, where the first generation of capitalists rose from the ashes of Maoist economic ruin.
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The museum's 10 thematic galleries explore traditional aspects of pan-Asian culture, the focus shifting between exquisite, subtly-lit artefacts from Southeast Asia, China, India, Sri Lanka and even Turkey.
Commissions from trading bonds or stocks in Southeast Asia are also between 20% and 40% higher than in the rest of the region, including China, according to McKinsey.
The Mediterranean world sketched by Braudel and the world system across the Atlantic Ocean described by Wallerstein were nothing other than subsystems of the global system that encompassed Africa, the Mediterranean, the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia.
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