Related to South Asia:East Asia,West Asia A region of southern Asia consisting of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. South Asiann.& adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcour...
Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name “Southeast Asia” came into popular use ...
Although South Asia has continually been subjected to strong outside influences, it has always incorporated them into native forms, resulting not in imitation but in a new synthesis. This may be seen even in the art of the Gandhāra region of Pakistan, which in the 4th centurybcwas immersed ...
South East Asia means Brunei, Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Guam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, People's Democratic Republic of, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Province of, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Russian Federation (East of Urals), Uzb...
Deaths in older South Asians are not always well captured, possibly due to more frequent travel to South Asia once retired, which could compromise the estimation of the survival. We therefore limited the analysis to patients aged 15–69 years at diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Information on ...
Bandhs (“strikes”), once a feared Maoist weapon, are now part of the mainstream, adopted even by right-wing Hindus–but, though they are occasionally violent, as in the rest of South Asia, observing uniquely Nepali manners, they are maintained only during business hours and not on any ...
East / Southeast Asia South Asians in Southeast Asia South Asians in Southeast Asia There is a fairly large Indian and Pakistani population in Southeast Asia, primarily in Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, and Singapore. The great majority of these people were, and still are, plantation laborers, tho...
Best known as the Land of Smiles, Thailand is the most exotic country at the heart of South-East Asia. Being home to hundreds of islands, Thailand is the ultimate vacation paradise. It doesn't matter where you go – Phuket, Krabi, Bangkok, Pattaya, Ko Samui, or Phi Phi island – Thai...
The proverbial diversity of South Asia is reflected in its diaspora in North America in numerous networks and organisations of queer South Asians. These sites produce debates about authenticity in tension with conceptions of gay representations. Crosscutting such tensions is a critique of individualist ...
Notably, the dramatically higher rate of homozygosity that is found in parts of South Asia allows homozygous loss of function effects to be studied for many genes that cannot realistically be accessed in outbred populations such as those that predominate in Europe and East Asia19,25. Traditionally...