The company aims to broaden minds beyond images of gun-battles and belly dancing synonymous with the region.
Xuan paper has become synonymous with the region, where a score of artisans still keep the craft alive.
With the region enflamed, however, it's not clear what direction U.S. policy may take in the months ahead.
In order to develop healthy and productive ties with the region, the engagement has to be long-term and sustained.
There was also a surge in demand in Europe with the region posting its seventh consecutive annual gain to 374.8 tons.
One way to get to grips with the region is to enroll on a weekend course at the Irish School of Landscape Painting.
The Univision affiliate in Boston, WUNI, airs Spanish-language entertainment programs and produces a news show popular with the region's growing Hispanic community.
It was a "lowest common denominator" approach to suggest that Germany should reduce its competitiveness to deal with the region's crisis, she said.
With the region's winds blowing the Islamists' way, Mr Abbas may be tiring of trying to persuade the West to give him a state.
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While the withdrawal is set to begin July 2011, Kerry said the United States will maintain "engagement" with the region and talks with Afghanistan's neighbor, Pakistan.
Mr Zapatero, a Socialist, is likely to feel some affinity with the region, in which many countries have taken a turn to the left, commentators said.
China's trade with Latin America grew by 40% between 2007 and 2008 making their trade with the region in 2008 three times higher than in 2004.
Ultimately, said Joshua Foust, a fellow at the American Security Project familiar with the region, Pakistan must address the broader sense of political disenfranchisement that originally fed the insurgency.
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Highly-rated open-side flanker Lewis suffered a similar injury in May and is six weeks into his own rehabilitation programme with the region expecting him to be fit again by November.
That is in contrast to India, whose trade with the region remains modest, but whose companies have begun to make significant investments in software, pharmaceuticals, business software and natural resources.
Scrum-half Tavis Knoyle, fly-half Rhys Priestland and back-rowers Josh Turnbull and Rob McCusker will link up with the region, although Stephen Jones and national captain Matthew Rees will also remain with Wales.
In June last year, the yard was ready to be seeded with grasses and wildflowers selected by the company's meadow specialist, Ed Yates, to work well with the region's hard-packed soil and dry conditions.
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He secured the agreement of his colleagues on the LEP to write to the prime minister suggesting Birmingham could pilot Lord Heseltine's new localist agenda, in partnership with the region's public and private sectors.
It can rely solely on compacts with the region's existing power-brokers, which often means conniving at, or even reinforcing, the corrupt practices by which they shore up their own authority and squash the emergence of rivals.
Imad al-Din Adib in the pan-Arab Saudi-owned Al-Sharq al-Awsat agrees that the killing of the US ambassador and three of his aides "is a humanitarian and political catastrophe" with implications for "Washington's ties with the region as a whole".
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The localization of these understandings in turn opens up a whole new set of options for Westerners and particularly for Israelis in seeking ways to contend with the region's pathologies that involve policies less sweeping than grand, yet futile designs of peace making, or fundamental restructuring of the social compacts of Arab societies.
The method you chose, comparing the wealthiest region with the poorest region, is particularly unreliable.
So those conversations have contained discussions about his views of the historic change in the region and his vision for how the United States can best support positive change in the region, both with leaders from the region and with leaders from elsewhere among the nations of the world.
James, 33, is involved in a legal dispute with the Welsh region over the manner of his departure.
For the purposes of European funding, Wales is divided into two regions: West Wales and the Valleys and East Wales, with the former region qualifying for the highest level of funding.
Pressure to free merchandise trade is seen as benefiting Australia and New Zealand, which run big trade surpluses with the rest of the region, rather than the small island states that trade little with each other.
So I think if you note, those are the nations that he talked about in his speech with regard to the -- with regard to the region and the Arab Spring.
Its independence was followed by social unrest and a conflict with the breakaway region of Abkhazia that led to the displacement of more than 250, 000 people, according to the European Commission.
And we have made great strides in engaging with the Far East, for example, with the Pacific region in a way that was neglected prior to this administration.
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