The financial crisis that hit Europe a little more influence on East Asia and the Pacific. This could be an opportunity to show off the region to maximize the potential of local economies to remain strong, says World Bank chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, Bert Hofman.

“Europe is in crisis, and the United States growth is also not very good when they have economic ties with East Asia and the Pacific. So in conclusion, yes, they experience a crisis affecting East Asia and Pacific region,” said Hofman from Tokyo, through telewicara in Jakarta, Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

Hofman explains the impact of the influence of the European financial crisis of East Asia and the Pacific. More than 40 percent of exports from Asia Pacific countries destined for the EU, the United States, and Japan. Thus, the request was automatically reduced when the export destination of economic problems.

Thus, countries in Asia is expected to reduce dependence on exports and rely more on domestic demand to maintain growth rate. “Many countries in East Asia and Pacific region, including Indonesia, which has been moving in this direction,” said World Bank economist, Bryce Quillin.

So Opportunities

In addition, the weakening European economy proved to be able to provide opportunities for regional banks in East Asia and the Pacific. “For regional banks, this is a great opportunity to fill the gap left by European banks due to the crisis. Therefore, a third of project financing and trade in Asia from European banks,” said Hofman.

The issue of self-confidence as well be the impact of the economic decline of the Blue Continent. Therefore, developing countries in the region, including Indonesia, have begun to realize the power of each of the financial sector.

Growth in East Asia and the Pacific, including China, grew by 8.2 percent in the year 2011 or slipped dramatically from the growth rate of nearly 10 percent in 2010. However, the performance of this region on a global scale is still relatively strong with growth of around 2 percent higher than other developing countries in the region, including the European Union.

Economy of East Asia and Pacific region is still considered strong, but growth slowed compared with the period of post-recession peak. According to the latest World Bank report released today, the slowdown was largely due to weak export growth in manufacturing and natural disasters in Asia Pacific.

The World Bank report, entitled “Capturing New Sources of Growth,” revealed in 2011, East Asia’s economic growth reached 8.2 percent or dropped from the year 2010 reached 10 percent. This is largely due to natural disasters such as tsunamis and Japan as well as floods in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

However, with a poverty rate of diminishing returns, the performance of this region on the global scale is still relatively strong with growth of around 2 percent higher than other developing countries in the region.

“The number of people living below U.S. $ 2 per day is expected to drop as many as 24 million people in 2012. Overall, the number of poor in East Asia and Pacific region has been reduced by half in the last decade,” said Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific.

For 2012, growth is projected to weaken to 7.6 percent, and slowing expansion in China is expected to have a big impact. If China’s economy slowing faster than expected, commodity prices will fall, threatening the country’s exporters.

Therefore, East Asia and Pacific region must maximize the potential of existing local, thereby reducing dependence on exports. The economic crisis that hit Europe also called a negative effect on economic growth in Asia-Pacific region, considering that 40 percent of exports destined for Asia Pacific European Union, the United States, and Japan.

“Some countries still need to stimulate domestic consumption. While in other countries, greater investment in infrastructure can sustain growth over this does not aggravate the pressure of domestic demand,” said World Bank economist, Bryce Quillin.

14. Venetian merchant and adventurer Marco Polo traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271-95. His wrote Il milione, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo.

13. He set off on a journey to the East at the age of seventeen with his uncle and father as part of a diplomatic mission for Pope Gregory X.

12. He was the son of Niccolo Polo and the nephew of Maffeo Polo

11. In 2071, Marco Polo accompanies his father and uncle on a journey through the Holy Land, Persia and Tartary and to the Empire of China.

10. Marco Polo was from a Venetian family of merchants that traded a great deal with the Middle East and became wealthy in the process.

9. He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China.

8. In 1271 a seventeen-year-old Marco Polo set off for Asia with his father and uncle. They would return 24 years later with many riches. It is estimated that they traveled 15,000 miles.

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7. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan.

6. Around 1292, he left China, acting as consort along the way to a Mongol princess who was being sent to Persia.

5. Marco Polo’s descriptions of his travels opened up Asia as a new world to Europeans and generated a fascination with the East.

4. Marco Polo died on January 1324 in Venice. Marco Polo was almost 70 years old

3. He mastered the classical texts of the time, knew the Bible well and was experienced in the matters of the Latin Church.

2. He traveled farther into China than any European had gone before. When he returned to Venice in 1295, he became a popular storyteller. People gathered at his home to hear his stories of his travels in the Far East.

1. Marco Polo was buried in the Church of San Lorenzo.

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              Columbus was not the first person to reach America. Long before Columbus, the Vikings had reached America. However, Columbus was the first person to return to Europe with the news of a land that later became known as America. Columbus himself believed that he had landed in Asia and until his death he continued to believe so!

  I don’t say all the best will be coming out of America, I am simply saying that best of the best will still be coming out of America. I don’t care what type of political poison is flowing on the big river. There is someone and that someone is more than enough to maintain that level of achievement in the history of one nation successful civilization. Long live America. It’s good to have you. Love you from far far ………..EAST.

……………………………………………………………………………Peace…………………………………………………………………..

Idolising idols is a great waste. While there may be nothing wrong with listening to songs once in a while, it can also easily turn into an addiction. From merely listening to songs of a favourite idol or band, it can easily turn into looking up their information and other works (to hear more of them), searching for their pictures (to stick up in their rooms or display as backgrounds for their computer screens), reading gossip magazines or websites (to see what their idols are up to), etc. This, uses up a lot of time which cannot be brought back, can it not? In order to attend an idol’s concert, buy fan merchandise and ‘fan rice’, it is also wasting endless amounts of money which will not easily be earned back. Clearly, this is an obsession which must stop occurring. Teenagers and early adults are still in school and should not be focussing so much time on idols and things which are in relation to idols. Instead, they should focus on more on school and those who are close to them such as friends and family. Idols are a waste of time as they are not as important as the fans make them out to be.

Most Asian celebrities are multi-talented, making them great role models for their fans. Nowadays, most Asian idols know not only how to model, sing and dance, but also to play musical instruments, compose their own songs and even write their own lyrics. Some of these idols have even launched their own acting career. Korean romantic comedy and music drama ‘Dream High’ (2011) was popular not only among Koreans, but also many international fans. Although the acting could have been better, it has successfully boosted the names of many of its idol-turned-actors. Due to its popularity, ‘Dream High 2’, which recently broadcasted its last episode, had again, most of its cast being idols rather than professional actors. These talented people inspire fans to become more like them, to study hard in school and strive hard to achieve their goals. Many fans have admitted that they went to learn a new language so that if they ever got to meet their idols they would be able to converse with them in their native tongue, while other fans have strived to become more like their idols by learning to sing, dance and take up music.

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While idols do have positive impacts on society, more often than not, idolising idols waste the time and money of their fans and idols persuade their fans to do certain things and follow certain trends. We do not need idols to tell the youth of today what to do and not to do. The fans’ infatuated idolism is not necessary as Asian idols are not as important as society makes them out to be.

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Official language: English, Irish, Scottish

Land area: 93,628 sq mi/242,495 sq km

Population:  62,761,000

Dominant religion: Christianity

Capital: London

Current leader: Prime Minister David Cameron

The United Kingdom is an island country in northwestern Europe, lying across the English Channel from France. It consists of the island of Great Britain, the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and dozens of nearby smaller islands including the Channel Islands. Great Britain, Ireland and the nearby smaller islands are sometimes referred to as the British Isles.

 The island of Great Britain is divided into three self-governing political units – England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is also self-governing. While all inhabitants of Great Britain are commonly referred to as British the people of Scotland and Wales, with their own cultures and political opinions that sometimes differ greatly from those of England, prefer to be called Scots and Welsh, respectively. Whites make up about 93 percent of the United Kingdom’s population. Among them, about 5 percent are people from nearby European countries such as Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands in addition to a small number of people from poorer European countries such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine who came seeking better opportunities. The United Kingdom’s non-white population comes primarily from its former colonies in Africa and Asia, especially from member-states of the Commonwealth of Nations. Over 90 percent of the U.K.’s population resides in urban areas.

 The Industrial Revolution began in the United Kingdom in the 1700’s and today the country remains one of the world’s five most industrialized nations and leading economies. As an island nation with a large population, manufacturing and trading constitutes the bulk of its lifeline. It is also the largest producer of petroleum and natural gas in the European Union. The country also has deposits of important minerals such as chalk, clay, fluorspar, gypsum, salt and gravel. Another important source of income for the country is the millions of tourists who visit this beautiful country every year to taste its rich culture and history. The United Kingdom is also a top destination for students hoping to broaden their education, particularly at either Cambridge or Oxford, both which are considered by many academics to be the world’s finest universities.

 Very few nations in the world can boast a prouder and more storied history than United Kingdom can. In terms of percentage of the entire world, the British Empire, at its height, was the largest empire ever amassed. By the dawn of the 20th Century, roughly one-quarter of the world and its population was under British rule and for the better part of 200 years its navy was the master of the world’s seas. While the loss of its American Colonies in the American Revolution was one of its greatest setbacks it continued to build a great empire that eventually consisted of large swaths of Africa, Asia, North America and Oceania. But fall from glory awaited. The aftermath of World War I began spelling doom. The Japan and the United States were emerging as world powers while the citizens of the Empire’s possessions, particularly Ireland, were becoming increasingly restive and demanding greater freedom. In 1931, the United Kingdom granted independence to Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, New Zealand and South Africa although all of them would remain members of the Commonwealth of Nations. World War II, however, was the final seal of death for the British Empire. While the United Kingdom fought bravely and fiercely under the leadership of Winston Churchill, bringing Germany’s successes to a halt in 1942, its failure to protect its possessions in Asia against the Japanese juggernaut exposed its weakness. Immediately after the war, more colonies demanded and were granted independence. In 1947 the United Kingdom lost both India and Pakistan. The following year Burma became independent. In the early 1960’s it lost Malaysia and Singapore and most of its possessions in Africa. By 1980 all that remained of the once mighty British Empire were Hong Kong, Gibraltar and a few island protectorates and dependencies in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

 Despite its decline, the United Kingdom remains one of the world’s most influential countries as well as an economic superpower. Its monarch, Queen Elizabeth, remains the head of state in most of country’s former colonies. In 1982 it proved that it was still a military force to be reckoned with in its naval shootout with Argentina in the Falkland Islands War. It played a role in expelling the Iraqi army from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War and also helped removed Saddam Hussein from power during the 2003 Gulf War.