A major demonstration of the phenomenon was drought-intensified bush fires in Indonesia that spread a smog across large areas of Southeast Asia before badly-delayed rains started to fall in late November. Apart from E1 Nino, eastern and central Europe suffered the worst floods in living memory in...
InSoutheast Asia, many members of the family Zingiberaceae that have tall leafy stems produce their flowers on separate short sheath-covered stems that arise from buds on the rhizome; the flowers are protected by overlapping bracts, the whole inflorescence often being shaped like a pinecone. In sp...
Lanka, Bangladesh,and Southeast Asia.≤Professional women come from all over India andPakistan; the maids come primarily from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh(India), and the brides come mostly from Hyderabad (India). The livedexperience of these and other expatriates in the Gulf is molded by the...
The only child in middle-class families benefited from concentrated family resources. With a desire for Western affluence (Li2010a; Fong2004) and the increasing opportunity to go abroad, the number of Chinese students studying abroad has sharply increased since the turn of the century (from 17,6...
The October 8, 2005 South Asian earthquake devastated the northern regions of Pakistan, destroying or damaging close to 600,000 homes, leaving more than 73,000 dead, and resulting in displacement of 3.5 million persons. Given the scale of devastation the government relied heavily on outside assis...
MohdZain, Working with Asian Immigrant Families, Part I: Far East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific Islands. Madathil, Working with Asian Immigrant Families, Part II:South Asia. Abi-Hashem, Working with Middle Eastern Immigrant Families. Hunter, Working with Australian Families. Zagelbaum, Immigrant ...
Crypteroniaceae, with 3 genera and 10 species of trees, is found entirely in Southeast Asia. Alzateaceae consists of a single genus with one or two species, particularly a scrambling shrub or treelet that occurs from Bolivia, throughout the Andes, to Costa Rica.Characteristic...
About 13 percent were booked forchildren aged 3 to 6, while those aged 7 to 12are 31 percent.Besides the United States and the UnitedKingdom, countries in Africa, South Americaand Southeast Asia are becoming popular inrecent years. You can get more facts from thefollowing charts.Reasons ...
Country: Malaysia, SingaporeBusiness: Kuok GroupEstimated net worth: $16.1 billionThe Kuok family is the richest family in Southeast Asia, and owners of the Kuok Group — one of Asia’s most diversified firms with interests in agriculture, real estate, and financial services, to name a few.Th...
Southeast Asia, Africa, and India. You can see firsthand from his writings the challenges that the mission workers in those areas are facing and the dangers they confront every day. I would highly recommend this book to mission leaders as well as those who feel that they are interested in ...