Add to this the investment in state-of-the-art airports and vast new plane fleets, as well as the acquisition of stakes in some of Europe's biggest airlines which have ruptured traditional airline alliances, and it is clear why more and more commercial traffic is making a pit-stop in the region.
The euro's strength has followed what appears to be the receding threat of a euro-zone breakup, thanks to pledges from the European Central Bank to stop speculative runs on the region's banks and governments.
The price of gold remained little changed on Monday, but did not stop gold miners across the region from rallying: in Australia, Newcrest Mining and Evolution Mining added 1.7% and 5.3%, while in Hong Kong Zhaojin Mining Industry and Zijin Mining Group climbed 6.3% and 2.4%.
"It is high time for the Security Council and the international community to send also a strong message for the government of the South to disassociate itself from the rebel factions and to stop destabilizing" Sudan and the region, he said.
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The reluctance of Mr Padilla and his peers simply to stop building factories should make all the region's car makers shudder.
Marvellous Maldon is getting a taste for country chic much to the delight of Melbournians looking for a weekend pit-stop in the state's Goldfields region.
Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says.
King Hamad of Bahrain, a staunch American ally, boldly told America that unless it intervenes to stop Mr Sharon, its interests in the region would be at stake.
Despite the opposition of the Church due to the pagan elements of the procession, its successive bans did nothing to stop it spreading to the rest of the region and permeating every social class.
Ryanair founder Michael O'Leary has said in the past that his airline will grow from being Europe's largest low-cost carrier to become the region's biggest carrier full stop as it takes on the so-called legacy airlines.
If he gets his way, his country will stop growing at its roaring pace, joining the trend in a region that will soon get smaller.
Mr Zakaryayev said that Magomed Kartashov, who reportedly founded the Union of the Just, had spent hours trying to stop Tsarnaev from joining one of the militant cells scattered through the region.
The East of England Co-op, which had all of its 53 Suffolk stores involved in the scheme at the start, said it would now stop selling super-strength drink in its 135 stores across the region.
The campaign forced Shell to stop pumping oil out of Ogoniland but it continues to operate pipelines in the region and spills have continued.
Not for the first time on this three-month-long mission, the Northumberland has found itself in the same region as an act of piracy but without the advance warning to stop it.
The Assistant Chief Constable for the North Region, Norman Walmsley, said the plan included an increase in covert operations and more 'stop and search' checkpoints .
NATO, relying heavily on American forces, launched air strikes to stop Milosevic, and received crucial assistance from the Kosovo Liberation Army, the main rebel force in the region.
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