Asia ... small amount of cannabis for domestic consumption; minor transit point for illicit drugs - mostly opium and hashish - moving from Southwest Asia to Russia and to a lesser extent the rest of Europe www.exxun.com/Armenia/i_ti.html
Asia Southeastern Asia, islands in the Indian Ocean, midway between northwestern Australia and Timor island www.exxun.com/AshmoreandCartierIslands/b_mp.html
Asia Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt ... www.exxun.com/Australia/a_fg.html
Asia ... 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber optic submarine cable provides links to ... www.exxun.com/Australia/f_cm.html
Asia Southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia, with a small European portion north of the Caucasus range www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/b_mp.html
Asia ... for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to ... www.exxun.com/Bahrain/f_cm.html
Asia ... their movement, non-payment of wages, and physical or sexual abuse; women from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Morocco, and Thailand are also trafficked to Bahrain for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation ... www.exxun.com/Bahrain/i_ti.html
Asia Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/b_mp.html
Asia ... employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Garment exports and remittances from Bangladeshis working overseas, mainly in the Middle East and East Asia, fuel economic growth www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/e_ec.html
Asia ... ME-WE-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2007 www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/f_cm.html
Asia ... technologies international: country code - 375; Belarus is a member of the Trans-European Line (TEL), Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line, and has access to the Trans-Siberia Line (TSL); 3 ... www.exxun.com/Belarus/f_cm.html
Asia ... radio relay network international: country code - 32; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3) (2007 www.exxun.com/Belgium/f_cm.html
Asia ... cellular providers international: country code - 229; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat-Atlantic Ocean) (2007 www.exxun.com/Benin/f_cm.html
Asia Southern Asia, between China and India www.exxun.com/Bhutan/b_mp.html
Asia ... 1984. The same family has ruled Brunei for over six centuries. Brunei benefits from extensive petroleum and natural gas fields, the source of one of the highest per capita GDPs in Asia www.exxun.com/Brunei/a_fg.html
Asia Southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and Malaysia www.exxun.com/Brunei/b_mp.html
Asia ... of GDP and more than 90% of exports. Per capita GDP is among the highest in Asia, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for ... www.exxun.com/Brunei/e_ec.html
Asia general assessment: service throughout the country is excellent; international service is good to Southeast Asia, Middle East, Western Europe, and the US domestic: every service available international: country code - 673; landing point ... www.exxun.com/Brunei/f_cm.html
Asia strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/b_mp.html
Asia Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand www.exxun.com/Burma/b_mp.html
Asia ... landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2, Intelsat (Indian Ocean), and ShinSat (2007 www.exxun.com/Burma/f_cm.html
Asia ... situation: Burma is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked to East and Southeast Asia for sexual exploitation, domestic service, and forced commercial labor; a significant number of victims are ... www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
Asia ... consider themselves to be Khmers, descendants of the Angkor Empire that extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Attacks by the Thai and ... www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
Asia Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos www.exxun.com/Cambodia/b_mp.html
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