one photograph shows two little girls hugging in the sunlight on the street of an Asian town.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Groups like the Asian Development Bank oppose limits on interest rates because of these high business costs.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

Randy Schriver, who heads the research group Project 2049, which focuses on issues in the Asian region and the rise of China.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

He says it may be necessary to call on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to mediate an end the diplomat dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

On the final leg of her Asian tour, Clinton will travel to Seoul on Wednesday to consult with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Asian-American parents' traditional emphasis on education has run into the stumbling U.S.economy and skyrocketing college costs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The world is waiting,". Gates was speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of Asian defense ministers and experts on the region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

It also exists in Southeast Asian nations and on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Yet increased recruitment of Asian-Americans doesn't mean that more are on the front lines.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He arrived in Naypyidaw from Laos, as part of a five-nation tour of Asia as the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Japan,like many Asian countries, depends heavily on exports for economic growth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

I do not want to have a person's death on my conscience.'" The rising visibility of Asian-Americans already in the service may make a military career more acceptable to Asian-Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Sunday's summit of the United States and ASEAN the Association of Southeast Asian nations will take place on the sidelines of the broader 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Mr.Obama is on his first trip to Asia as president and will hold the first U.S.summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the sidelines of the APEC meetings.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The New York demonstrators, who included activists from Latino,Caribbean, and Asian communities in New York as well as local clergy members, called on President Obama to act immediately to stop Arizona's law from being implemented.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Several countries, including the United States and the European Union, have sanctions imposed on the military, while a broad range of countries, including Asian states,Singapore,Thailand, Indonesia and and the Philippines have called for Aung San Suu Kyi's release.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10