Japan still hold a six-point lead over Jordan, who moved from bottom to second, at the top of Asian qualifying Group B and the Blue Samurai will secure a place at next year's finals if they avoid defeat against Australia in June.
Having been caught by the Asian crisis, the group may now enter a lengthy debt workout or even file for bankruptcy.
The club was burned to the ground after petrol bombs were thrown by a group of Asian youths during the riots, which began on 7 July 2001.
The Asian economies now in the group are China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
Through three decades of summits, conferences, common initiatives and consensus-building, the organization has reduced tensions among Southeast Asian nations and elevated the nine as a group to an enviable position of influence in the continent, if not the world.
Of the three, Jardine Fleming's Leu tips the Acer Group as the best placed because of its huge Asian presence.
The point captured in searing temperatures in Riyadh, saw the Koreans edge into second place in Asian qualifying Group 2 to finish ahead of Saudi Arabia on goal difference and seal their place in the finals.
"Whilst the global economy is slowing, and within that the Asian economies are now showing signs of lower growth, the group has delivered a strong third quarter performance with good income growth, " it added.
"Most of our members are still at home, " said Sunita Mehta of the group Sakhi for South Asian Women.
They are currently leading their Asian qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup and appeared at the last World Cup in 2006.
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Asian students represent the second largest group of English learners.
Injury stopped him making his Asian Cup debut until the final Group C game -- he won his 109th cap as a second-half substitute in Tuesday's 4-1 defeat by South Korea -- spurring him on to try and achieve the unthinkable: leading India to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Two teams from each group go into the final Asian qualifying stage.
Australia, who have two more matches to play in Group A of the final Asian qualifying phase, have 14 points from six matches.
Elsewhere in the Asian Cup, Iran comfortably topped the group with a maximum nine points -- the only nation to achieve that target -- after cruising to a 3-0 victory over United Arab Emirates despite fielding a weakened side.
The additional weight of India's voice to this group, particularly if raised through Asian venues such as the Bali Democracy Forum, would undoubtedly move the center of gravity within Asia.
"If you compared a group of Asian executives with one of similar ages in the United States, the U.S. group would have more MBAs per head, " he told CNN.
That e-mail reach was demonstrated recently when the group put out a notice seeking Asian American actors for 30-second TV spots.
The share of Asian newlyweds who married outside of their group dropped to 28% in 2010 from 31% in 2008.
Meantime, another Asian cover story in 2002, on the Carlyle Group's regional ambitions, zeroed in on its makeover of KorAm Bank, a Kookmin rival.
The scarcity of fuel within Iran's borders casts doubt on efforts by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to use oil and gas exports to split off Russia and Asian countries from the U.S. Ahmadinejad recently appeared at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a China-led group of Asian energy users and exporters, to talk up potential gas pipelines to Pakistan and beyond.
Wednesday's match was a group-stage tie in the AFC Cup, the Asian Football Confederation's second-tier club tournament.
Top of the agenda was a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a group that includes Central Asian nations.
On March 30-31, a group of South Asian leaders gathered in Dhaka for the first Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Simple Solutions.
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Hsia has been an active Democratic fund-raiser since the late 1980's when she headed the Los Angeles-based Pacific Leadership Council, a group of Asian-American contributors.
Ben Uglow of Robert Fleming, a stockbroker, points out that the group's cement business may be vulnerable to cheap Asian imports, because its main markets are close to Brazil's coastal ports.
By Christmas, the situation had not much changed: Ron Woodard, the boss of Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, said cancellations by stricken Asian airlines would be a welcome relief to his overloaded factories though he did not in fact expect any.
The IMF chief is currently enroute to the Euro-group meeting in Brussels on November 20, cutting short her Asian stay and another date of note to diarize for next week.
The men, all arrested between December 9 and 24 under the Internal Security Act, were members of the Jemaah Islamiyah -- a clandestine Islamic Group with links to other Southeast Asian nations.
The chaebol ran into financial difficulties in the mid-1990s during the Asian financial crisis and it was broken up into three companies in 2001: Hyundai Group, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Motor.
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