Simultaneously, the East-West sea routes have seen significant development with the rise of major ports like Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Gwadar in Pakistan, new facilities in Chittagong Port in Bangladesh and Tuas Maga Port in Singapore. In India, new greenfield ports are built with associated infras...
Africa- the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean Herero- a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola ...
Zhou Yuyuan, a senior research fellow and deputy director at the Center for West Asian and African Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said the fact that Xi and Ramaphosa have made mutual visits over the past year serves as another testament to the "golden era" of ...
(Placename) a state of S central Australia, on the Great Australian Bight: generally arid, with the Great Victoria Desert in the west central part, the Lake Eyre basin in the northeast, and the Flinders Ranges, Murray River basin, and salt lakes in the southeast. Capital: Adelaide. Pop:...
BANGKOK, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- To Thailand, the ongoing ninth BRICS summit means much. The summit is expected to witness the signing of draft contracts of a railway project vital to the Southeast Asian nation. Let alone that Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is attending the dialogues ...
The Tibetan plateau, also referred to as “Asian Water Tower”, is a critical water resource for Asia1,2, affecting the health and welfare of billions of people who depend upon the headwaters of the Tibetan plateau3,4 to feed the rivers of their region. Since a huge quantity of water fl...
In many ways, China's experience of development and modernization is somewhat unique to itself and was never an attempt to copy and imitate the West. Nevertheless, like many developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, China experienced and lived through the bitter pill of imperialism...
McElreavey K, Quintana-Murci L (2002): Understanding inherited disease through human migrations: A south-west Asian perspective. Community Genetics 5: 153–156. View ArticleMcElreavey K, Quintana-Murci L (2002) Understanding in- herited disease through human migrations: a south-west Asian ...
South Africa and the adjoining ocean areas are influenced throughout the year by descending, divergent upper air masses that circulate primarily eastward, generally causing fine weather and low annual precipitation, especially to the west. During winter (June to August), cold polar air moves over ...
Association of Southeast Asian Nations - an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism ASEAN association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Moder...