More recently, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus discovered new lands while seeking to expand trade with spice-growing areas in Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

I would love to go somewhere more with Asia and live there for a couple of years.

我想要去亚洲，在那里的某个地方住几年。

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The World Health Organization says the problem with counterfeit medicines is especially bad in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

So,the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Japan's desire to use East Asia to gain natural resources and sell manufactured products was in direct conflict with American plans for Asia.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

His work with rice and wheat crops saved millions from starving in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

In East Asia new infections with the virus that causes AIDS have decreased almost twenty-five percent.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Mr.Obama meets next week with leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Burma, at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The forum ends with a summit of APEC world leaders, including President Obama, making his first trip to Asia as president.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Ken Lieberthal,an East Asia advisor to former President Bill Clinton, is now with the Brookings Institution in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, with the largest inland fisheries in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

In 2009,647 million people flew in the Asia-Pacific, compared with North America's Brian Sinclair Thompson, Thailand manager for Swiss International,is upbeat over the region's outlook.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Clinton,who flew to Manila from ministerial meetings in Singapore of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, held evening dinner talks with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Southeast Asia led the region's recovery with a boost in arrivals of 15 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

The Asia Pacific region led the decline with a more than 14 percent fall off Passengers for North American flights fell by more than 13 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

De'Asia Davis,23, graduated from Ohio State University last summer with a degree in sociology.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Anholt points out that South Korea has succeeded in creating a positive image with its films, television shows and music, which are highly acclaimed throughout East Asia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The Pacific Asia Travel Association says the recovery had gathered momentum, with international visitor arrivals in the region increasing three percent in November compared with a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Airline industry and port authorities around Asia are monitoring arriving passengers, hoping to detect,and isolate, anyone infected with swine flu, which broke out in Mexico in recent weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

After a meeting with Ms.Otunbayeva, the top EU representative to Central Asia,Pierre Morel, denied the bloc is involved in any mediation between the provisional leaders and the president.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Yap Swee Seng, a representative with rights group Forum Asia, raised doubts the commission will be fully independent because it could be funded and controlled within the ASEAN Secretariat.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"It is not getting weaker." Sidney Jones,a terrorism analyst with the International Crisis Group, says security experts are now learning of a growing alliance of militant groups in Southeast Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

In foreign policy, Hatoyama pledges tighter integration with East Asia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

A rebound is expected in 2010, but the US government predicts a shift in the makeup of foreign visitors, with arrivals from Asia and South America growing by double digits.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Breeders replicated that success with rice, and the Green Revolution was born, averting famines that were predicted in Asia in the 1960s and '70s, and winning Borlaug the Nobel Peace Prize.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Shortly after making his comments, the president left for an eight-day trip to Asia, where the economy will be one of the main topics of his meetings with other countries' leaders.

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 group Nonviolence International South East Asia said recently the number of troops and armed volunteers, together with rights violations by both the government and insurgents, have created a climate of fear and terror.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Thai stocks closed down two percent,Wednesday. Despite the dip in Thailand's stock exchange, Cohen says the country's gross domestic product has shown good signs of recovering, along with the rest of Asia, from the global down-turn.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15