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unusual facts about Southeast Asian



Kolej Islam Malaya

KIM was established to served as the epitome of higher learning for Muslims youth in Malayaas well as in Southeast Asian region.


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Arixeniidae

They are ectoparasites of various Southeast Asian bats, particularly of the genus Cheiromeles (i.e., "naked bulldog bats").

Asian furniture

Southeast Asian furniture are usually dark brown in color with a lot of Hindu-influence carving.

Bacha

Colocasia gigantea, also known as "bac ha", a Southeast Asian vegetable.

Bamboo borer

Omphisa fuscidentalis, a Southeast Asian moth, the larvae of which feeds off bamboo and in turn is also considered a delicacy by the local population.

Bangkok Treaty

Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, a 1995 nuclear weapons moratorium between 10 Southeast Asian member-states under the auspices of the ASEAN

Cecil Mamiit

On December 30, 2007, 2-time Southeast Asian (SEA) Games singles champion Cecil Mamiit and renowned healing Catholic priest Father Fernando Suarez teamed up to defeat former Davis Cuppers Felix Barrientos and Roland So, 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, at the Manila Polo Club tennis courts.

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

CFE Director, LtGen John F. Goodman gave the keynote address at the 9th annual Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ARF ISM-DR) in Honolulu, 16–18 September.

Chinese barbecue sauce

Satay sauce - a peanut-based sauce of Southeast Asian origin.

Shacha sauce - of Southeast Asian origin, used as a barbecue rub, as well as for other culinary purposes.

Duta Wacana Christian University

According Webometrics World Universities' Ranking on the Web 2007, DWCU is ranked at 89th place among Southeast Asian universities.

East–West Economic Corridor

The East–West Economic Corridor is an economic development program initiated in 1998 by the Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion organized in Manila, the Philippines in order to promote development and integration of four Southeast Asian countries, namely: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Gerd Kaminski

He has been head of the Boltzmann institute for Chinese and southeast Asian research in Vienna since his habilitation in 1978.

House society

A number of traditional Southeast Asian kingdoms, such as those in Bali, or the kingdom of Luwu in Sulawesi, were dominated by noble Houses that competed with each other for control of the state.

Javanization

Despite absorbing Indian influences from Gupta and Amaravati arts, to Southern India Pallava influences, Javanese Sailendran art in return influenced the art and aesthethic of the Southeast Asian region.

Kadena Air Base

While deployed in Okinawa, the SR-71s and their aircrew members gained the nickname Habu (as did the A-12s preceding them) after a southeast Asian pit viper which the Okinawans thought the plane resembled.

Longhouse

Many of the inhabitants of the Southeast Asian island of Borneo (now Kalimantan, Indonesia and States of Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia), the Dayak, live traditionally in buildings known as a longhouse, Rumah panjang / Rumah Betang in Indonesian, rumah panjai in Iban.

Maliakal

The non-derivative name, Malik, is ubiquitous and found primarily along countries in the Arabian peninsula including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Southern Iraq, as well as in the Southeast Asian countries of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

MediaCorp Suria

Prime 12 was best known for its programmes, notably the World's first Tamil sitcom, Amali Thumali, Malay and Tamil weekly drama strands, Sandiwara and Naadaga Arangam, respectively and also for its sports coverage such as the Southeast Asian Games in 1995, 1997 & 1999, UEFA Euro 1996 (selected matches) and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Michael Vatikiotis

He studied Southeast Asian history and languages and his doctoral research was on the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

Online Revolution

Online Revolution is the Southeast Asian version of Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

Palang Dharma Party

According to Southeast Asian politics specialist Duncan McCargo, there were definite advantages to the “vagueness” of this document.

Pétrus Ky

In 1851, Truong was granted a scholarship by this school to study at the Penang Seminary, then the main centre of Roman Catholic training for Southeast Asian countries.

Single-window system

Among these are the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and its Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), World Customs Organisation (WCO), SITPRO Limited of the United Kingdom and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Southeast Asian Games

On 22 May 1958, delegates from the countries in Southeast Asian peninsula attending the Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan had a meeting and agreed to establish a sport organization.

Stephan Schröck

Schröck became the fourth Southeast Asian player to play in the Europa League after Paul Mulders, Neil Etheridge and Jerry Lucena when he played a match against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Temple turtle

Black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis), a Southeast Asian geoemydid turtle species also known as the Siamese temple turtle and kept in Buddhist temples.

Yellow-headed temple turtle (Heosemys annandalii), a Southeast Asian geoemydid turtle species often kept in Buddhist temples.

Teresita Sy-Coson

In 2011, President Benigno Aquino III has chosen her as one member of the Association of Southeast Asian Business Advisory Council (ABAC) under the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Tree nymph

Ideopsis, the Southeast Asian tree- and wood nymphs, also known as glassy tigers, from a different lineage of Danainae

William J. Gedney

William J. Gedney (born April 4, 1915 in Orchards, Washington; died November 14, 1999 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American linguist and Southeast Asian language specialist.

Xylocopa latipes

The tropical carpenter bee is probably the largest Xylocopa known and among the largest bees of the world (though it is not the world's largest, that title belongs to another Southeast Asian bee, the Indonesian Megachile pluto).