At least three developments—the rise of an economically and militarily resurgent China, a renewed counter-strategic approach by the US to rebalance its engagements with its close regional allies like Japan, the
President Trump’s decision to allow white South African Framers to enter the United States as refugees and thereby escape the bloody claws of a violent tyranny is correct and merits wide support. The decision appears to be based on thefactthat since the apartheid’s end in South African 1994...
TCs during the negative WP phase mainly move to the west from the Philippines toward southern China and the Indochina Peninsula. Due to the terrain effect caused by the passage of TCs in mainland China, the intensity of TCs during the negative WP phase is weaker than those during the ...
Domestic workers in Singapore come from various countries, including India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Migrant workers from neighbouring countries are attracted by the higher wages they can earn in Singapore [[7], [8], [9]]. The Kafala system, also known as the ...
were viewed on the following monitors: (1) LG Flatron 700p (LG Electronics Co., South Korea); (2) Samsung Magicgreen (Samsung Electronics Corp., South Korea); (3) Hansol 710p (Hansol Electronics Corp., South Korea) and (4) Toshiba satellite laptop (Toshiba Computer Corp., Philippines)...
2000). Grain size is a further quality trait used by the global market. Grain size preference varies depending on the geographical location. For instance, rice consumers in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Malaysia, and the Philippines prefer long and slender grains, while those in Korea, Japan, ...
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Genre Paradigms of the Vocal Up-Shastriya Music in the Culture of South Asia Chapter © 2021 Notes 1. Not all forms of traditional non-Western music adhere to the collective format of musicking. The vast part of Eurasia, between the Volga Plateau and Japan/China, has nourished the cross...
Efforts to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 above pre-industrial levels by 2025 are underway [1,2]. However, despite such climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, in the wake of the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030, it is more likely that ...
1 Yet, despite their relatively high levels of economic development and low levels of religious belief, these nations lag behind countries in the global north and Central and South America in terms of their residents’ tolerance for homosexuality. Additionally, several of these countries have been ...