Unlike some Asian countries, the Mexicans acted relatively quickly to avoid a systemic collapse.
Some Asian countries are using the region's financial crisis as an excuse to offer less liberalisation than they might have.
The charity's chairman Sir Peter Lampl said the strong performance of some Asian countries could reflect cultural differences, adding that Chinese students often outperformed their classmates in Britain too.
Even coastal defences built to withstand the strongest tropical storms may be little use when struck by a wall of water up to 10m high, as hit some Asian countries on Sunday.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join in on the ambitions in some Asian countries for building strong IT and knowledge based economies.
The empire: Real estate, media, commodities and hotels in some 15 Asian countries.
AMCs in some other Asian countries are exposed by their conflicting duties, to the taxpayer, to banks that need recapitalising and to companies that the government wants to keep afloat.
The massive growth in some East Asian countries in the past 25 years became possible through the concept of pulling foreign investments into industrial and free trade zones through very attractive tax incentives.
It is expected that North America will release 50 percent of the total, with European countries releasing some 30 percent and Asian countries providing the remaining 20 percent.
Some East-Asian countries could also do more to improve education so that school leavers have the skills they need.
Consumers who purchase Sony laptops in some European and Asian countries get access to an online "Sony newsstand" stocked with technology publications.
But that does not mean some South East Asian countries will not do that bilaterally, as both Singapore and Thailand have begun to do.
Until recently domestic insurgencies have amply justified some South-East Asian countries' defence spending.
Overall English pupils achieved scores in line with the international average for maths in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), with the top 10% of pupils' results comparable with those from some high achieving East Asian countries.
And we've done so in a coordinated basis with a lot of our EU partners, a lot of our Asian allies, some countries in the region.
One of the reasons investors have lost confidence in some Asian currencies is that many countries are running big current-account deficits in other words, they are investing more than they are saving at home.
But recently Asian countries, and some European ones, have been approaching the problem with a bit more imagination.
While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes.
Most Asian countries pegged their currencies in some way to the American dollar.
East Asian countries still have the edge in some respects: it is easier to move goods across their borders, for example.
At some point, it will start to dawn on Asian countries that domestic demand and exports to one another are just as important as exporting to America, and they will stop intervening.
This is a common building practice in some of the more impoverished and rural areas of Southeast Asian countries.
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Some blame the IMF's policies during the Asian crisis for spurring countries in the region to build up enormous reserves.
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And at a time when the influence of Islam is growing in all Central Asian countries, other Soviet or pre-Islamic Zoroastrian traditions are slowly disappearing as some people stop celebrating events considered incompatible with Muslim beliefs.
Badminton is hugely popular in Asian countries such as China, Malaysia and Indonesia, and the organisers of the Indian league hope some of that success might rub off.
Prostate cancer is rare in Asian countries but relatively common in Western nations, and researchers feel it's probably due to some component of the Western diet, says Albertsen, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
How do you incentivize these other Asian countries who have this incredible growth to sort of say, okay, now we want to do some trade deals with the United States that might slow our growth and help the United States?
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