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4 days ago · Asia - Wildlife, Fauna, Ecosystems: The Himalayas, stretching from east to west, form a barrier that largely prevents the movement of fauna southward or northward. Thus, Asia north of the Himalayas, with parts of western Asia and most of East Asia, belongs to the Palearctic (Old World) subregion of the Holarctic zoogeographic region (roughly, the Northern Hemisphere north of the tropics). Asia ...
5 days ago · Stock analysis for East Asia Holdings Investment Ltd (900110:KOSDAQ) including stock price, stock chart, company news, key statistics, fundamentals and company profile.
4 days ago · Marco Polo (born c. 1254, Venice [Italy]—died January 8, 1324, Venice) was a Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years. His Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature.
6 days ago · Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900 by Li Guo (Editor); Patricia Sieber (Editor); Peter Kornicki (Editor) ISBN: 9789048554119. Publication Date: 2022-06-09. Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia by Katherine Mezur; Emily Wilcox. ISBN: 9780472074556.
4 days ago · Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the 60° S parallel in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North America and South America on the east. Of the three major oceans, the Pacific is by far the largest, occupying about one-third of the surface of the globe.
2 days ago · Recent News. Indus River in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistani-administered portion of Kashmir. South Asia, subregion of Asia, consisting of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and peninsular India. It includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; Afghanistan and the Maldives are often considered part of South Asia as well.
6 hours ago · Updated. Jul 17, 2024, 09:23 AM. GENEVA - North Korea’s institutionalised and extensive system of forced labour, spanning prisons, schools, military conscription, and overseas dispatches ...
