Sentences with phrase «asia affecting the region»

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The financial crisis that affected Asia in the 1990s scarred both the region and its governments, prompting politicians and policymakers to learn from their mistakes.

In absolute terms, South East Asia is the worst affected global region with 175,000 deaths a year attributed to food borne illnesses.56

Post-anaerobic treatment steps can also further increase water quality for extensive recycling, which is also becoming particularly relevant to countries and entire regions suffering drought or increasing affected by climate change, including South - Western USA, Australia, Africa, Southern Europe and South - Eastern and Eastern Asia.

The worst salt - affected region is the Aral Sea basin of central Asia, where huge areas of former cotton fields have been abandoned to salt.

The findings suggest that nutritional interventions in South Asia could help prevent hearing loss, a condition which currently affects an estimated 116 million young people in the region.

Arctic sea ice melt fueled by ever - rising global temperatures is also opening the already fragile region to increased shipping traffic and may be affecting weather patterns over Europe, Asia and North America.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

According to the report, no region of the world is immune to disasters, but as in previous years the worst affected was Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced.

One of my favorite awards, Cathay Pacific in first class, will be among the worst affected (Asia Region 2).

The region is generally unaffected by the monsoon seasons which affect other places in this part of South East Asia, although sporadic heavy rains can come down during the rainy season from December to March.

Besides the big impact on travel to Southeast Asia, the other region most affected will be travel to the South Pacific.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Queens Museum of Art presents Symposium:» No Country: Regarding South and Southeast Asia» on April 16 and 18, 2013, a two - part program exploring how national borders affect the production, presentation, and reception of contemporary art in this historically complex and sociopolitically diverse region.

IPCC commentary notes that even a metre of sea level rise (plus population growth over the intervening period) are likely to affect between 200 and 450 million people in the Asia Pacific region alone.

The report examines how changes to glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region, which covers eight countries across Asia, could affect the area's river systems, water supplies, and the South Asian population.

Although the State of the Forest report lists logging as one of the five primary direct threats to forest cover, the report emphasises that log production in the formal sector — which has been negatively affected by a steep drop in demand due to the 2007 - 2008 global economic downturn — accounts for just 3 percent of global tropical timber production, far behind Latin America and the Asia - Pacific region.

Droughts particularly in the Asia - Pacific region and excessive rainfall in South America could occur, curtailing food supplies of affected nations.

South Asia's worst monsoon flooding in recent memory has affected 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, destroying croplands, livestock and property and raising fears of a health crisis in the densely - populated region.

Asia is already the most flood - prone region in the world, with the 2012 floods affecting 78 percent of the population.

Due to geo - physical conditions and socio - economic - demographic backwardness South Asia is projected as one of the worst affected regions from global warming and climate change.

While the Arctic region has been warming strongly in recent decades, anomalously large snowfall in recent winters has affected large parts of North America, Europe, and east Asia.

The struggling US giant has enjoy better fortunes in Asia, although its recent culling of 2,000 jobs has affected its presence in the region it once dominated.

Asia - Pacific had to deal with the highest number of malicious mobile apps last year and also was the region most affected across multiple...

Those regions were negatively affected by Asia's economic woes due to their strong trade relationships with Asia.