Southeast Asia

Definition: Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Noun

1. A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Southeast Asia

References

• Southeast Asia Cement Holdings, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (reference)

• Window on a War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict (Modern Southeast Asia Series) (reference)

• Medicine at War: Medical Aspects of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asia, 1950-1972 With Agent Orange: The Australian Aftermath (Official Hist) (reference)

• Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 (reference)

• Papyrus, Tapa, Amate and Rice Paper: Papermaking in Africa, the Pacific, Latin America and Southeast Asia (reference)

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Periodicals

• Jama : Journal Of The American Medical Association - Southeast Asia Ed (reference)

• Journal Of Science And Mathematics Education In Southeast Asia (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• We Visited Southeast Asia (reference)

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Music

• Bamboo on the Mountains: Kmhmu Highlanders from Southeast Asia & The U.S. (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

P. marneffei is endemic to Southeast Asia, where it is one of the more common HIV-related opportunistic infections. Credit: CDC.

Refugees of Southeast Asia. Credit: CDC.

"The heavy cruiser Boston steaming home after spending six months deployed to Southeast Asia", 1969. (Quoted information is from the original caption, received with this photograph on 12 November 1969.). Credit: NAVY.

In posed formation with her escorts and some of her aircraft during Exercise "Sea Imp", a major Southeast Asia Treaty Organization exercise conducted in the western Pacific during the first part of 1966. The two leading escorts are USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) at left and USS Bronstein (DE-1037) at right. Other escorts include two destroyers and two escort ships. Planes overhead include S-2, E-1 and SH-3 types. Credit: NAVY.

Willys jeep being loaded at Baltimore on board the S.S. Steel Apprentice bound for Southeast Asia, as part of the Marshall plan. Credit: Library of Congress.

March [and] strike, April 15 : U.S. out of Vietnam, Laos, all of Southeast Asia : bring all troops home now. Credit: Library of Congress.

May 5 National moratorium. National college and high school moratorium in commemoration of Kent State, Jackson State and Augusta ... / Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Southeast Asia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Also in 1981, a new strain of DEN-2 from Southeast Asia caused the first major DHF epidemic in the Americas (Cuba). (references)

A global pandemic of dengue began in Southeast Asia after World War II and has intensified during the last 15 years. (references)

The disease is very rare outside the Far East and Southeast Asia, and most cases have been reported from western Japan. (references)

Business

China also worked vigorously to expand its relations with the countries of Southeast Asia. (references)

Visteon in Southeast Asia expects the recovery to continue and automotive sales to increase. (references)

The falling demand for oil and gas in Southeast Asia has partially prompted lower oil prices. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

The law requires foreign publications that report on politics and current events in Southeast Asia to register and post a $128,000 (SD234,000) bond and name a person in the country to accept legal service. (references)

Vietnam

Vietnam and the United States continued to work together on the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees (ROVR) Program in processing the residual applicants who had returned from refugee camps elsewhere in Southeast Asia. (references)

Economic History

Thailand

Southeast Asia has been inhabited for more than half a million years. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

In the early 1990s, wages rose faster than productivity and Korea lost its low-wage labor advantage to China and Southeast Asia. (references)

TAIWAN

Rising labor and land costs have long led many manufacturers in labor intensive industries to move offshore, mainly to Southeast Asia and mainland China. (references)

Indonesia

The fourth most populous nation in the world and the largest by far in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has pursued cooperative relations with its neighbors, thereby contributing to peace and stability in the region. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Vietnam is classified under the Southeast Asia region along with its Malaysian, Philippines, Singaporean, and Thai neighbors. (references)

Philippines

The Philippines is eligible for a $40 million-facility guarantee program for Southeast Asia to stimulate the creation or improvement of facilities that will benefit U.S. agricultural exports. (references)

Indonesia

An American Senior Commercial Officer heads the office, supported by two Commercial Specialists, one of whom is funded by the US-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) and focuses on environment projects primarily in South and Southeast Asia. (references)

Worker Rights

Germany

The other 20 percent of trafficking victims come from Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. (references)

Australia

In October Australian Aid (AUSAID) began a development project on the prevention of trafficking in Southeast Asia. (references)

Canada

The Federal Government's programs focus largely on Southeast Asia but have also started antitrafficking programs in Russia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

東南亞國 , 東南亞 . (various references)

German

SEANWFZ (SEANWFZ, Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone), Südostasiatische Kernwaffenfreie Zone (SEANWFZ, Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

東南亜 , 東南アジア . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とうな�"アジア, とうな�"あ. (various references)

Pig Latin

outheastsay asiaay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: southeasts.

-4 letters: housesits, southeast.

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