It drew heavily on the dances and cultural traditions of the region s African slaves.
The crisis has hurt region's growth and dented sentiment resulting in a drop in consumer demand in the region's countries.
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Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture developed in the north-western part of Japan s main island and bear the mark of the region s cooler climate particularly its snowy winters.
The day's lows occurred late in the session, after Dow Jones Newswires reported that European Union finance ministers' four-hour teleconference failed to yield a new agreement to beef up the region's rescue funds, dashing traders' hopes for progress increasing the region's bailout powers.
The lengthy paragraphs on the troubled region in the summit's conclusions are an acknowledgement of the region's continued importance to stability in Europe.
Yet, arguably, China's earlier devaluation contributed to last year's problems for the region's smaller economies.
Russia, which owns half the Arctic coastline and the lion's share of the region's resources, is also reluctant.
The guest list was a veritable who's who of the region's biggest magnates, in fields ranging from banking to bananas.
During Mr Clinton's six-day visit to South Asia, most of it spent in India, the United States came closer than ever before to endorsing India's view of the region's main conflict.
If its next generation is to benefit fully from what today's is building, the region's schools must get an upgrade, too.
In fact, Australia's greatest impact on the region's markets may not be as a magnet for headquarters but as an exporter of expertise.
But U.S. indifference to the region's travails may unravel such efforts.
Up till now, such insubordination has usually been kept in check: witness the abortive attempt a few years ago by Sverdlovsk's governor to launch his region's own currency.
Despite its massive population, that's just 4% of the region's total anticipated spend.
India's Sensex stood out as the region's only benchmark to trade lower, down 0.9% late in the afternoon, after the Reserve Bank of Index shocked markets by failing to cut interest rates.
"We can learn lessons from this economic Crisis, " says Anan Itchayapruks, assistant governor in charge of human resource development at the state-owned Petroleum Authority of Thailand, No. 144 in this year's Asiaweek 1000 ranking of the region's largest companies.
U.S. nuclear submarines ply the region's waters, however, and Washington makes clear that its so-called nuclear "umbrella" over South Korea is meant to deter an attack on its ally by North Korea, whose 1950 invasion ignited the three-year Korean War.
Christian Aid warns that the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan -- a crisis summed up by some as the world's first "climate change war" as spreading desertification and water shortages contributed to clashes between the region's African farmers and nomadic Arabs -- could be a taste of a "nightmare scenario" set to be repeated elsewhere across Africa and the world.
Rather, the thawing of attitudes reflects a recognition of Syria's importance to a range of the region's troubles.
And it's thought that a quarter of the region's immigrants work illegally.
According to a 1998 survey by the Gartner Group, a U.S. market research firm, the region's companies slashed information technology budgets last year by up to half.
If ASEAN accelerates the move towards the ASEAN Free Trade Area and the ASEAN Investment Area, this would be a powerful endorsement of ASEAN's commitment to free trade and the region's openness to investment.
It's close to a perfect setting for the region's best spa, ESPA at Acqualina.
It has 80% of the continent's rail network and is home to the region's biggest stock exchange.
Arriving as one of several visiting participants, Keizo Obuchi, Japan's prime minister, at last filled in some of the details of his country's long-standing pledge to help the region's economies.
For this year's Newsmakers demonstrated just how vulnerable some of the region's fundamental structures, policies and relationships are.
Demand from the eurozone, one of Japan's biggest markets, has been hurt by the region's ongoing debt crisis.
Indonesia's economy remains hobbled by the effects of the region's 1997-98 recession.
And Georgia's leaders see that Chechnya is pivotal to the region's security.
But Hungary's claim that St Stephen is part of the region's common heritage might be stronger had any Slovak dignitaries been invited to the statue's unveiling.
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