Continuation of SAARC …. 3.Regional Centres SAARC has established five regional centres. Each centre is managed by a Governing Board which includes the Director of the Centre. The Governing Board reports to the Standing Committee. The Regional Centres are as follows: I. SAARC Agricultural Information Centre (SAIC) The first regional institution was established in Dhaka […]
Read More »SAARC 1.Introduction: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) comprises the seven countries of South Asia, i.e. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is an Association based on the consciousness that in an increasingly independent world, the objectives of peace, freedom, social justice and economic prosperity are best achieved […]
Read More »ASEAN Membership 10 States ― Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. 1 Observer – Papua New Guinea. ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Membership 27 States – Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, […]
Read More »KOREA Geography Of Korea : the country has mountainous range. Rice and barley are chief crops. The minerals are not in sufficient quantity. Timber is also found. Contacts With Europe : Korea came in contact with Europe as early as in 1593. In 1846 china claimed Korea as its subordinate state. France And Korea : […]
Read More »INDO CHINA Early History : indo china is divided into five administrative and political regions. The total area is 286,000sq. miles. Most of the population is concentrated in few pockets. Life Of The People : all the five divisions have their own features and the people in each region have their own way of life. […]
Read More »MALAYA Geography Of Malaya : Malaya peninsula had an area of about 53000 sq.miles with a population of 85,00,000 in 1966. It had a central mountain chain with altitudes ranging from 4000 to 8000ft. there are also coastal plains extremely narrow at some places and as wide as miles at other places. On the western […]
Read More »BURMA Burma is a small Asian nation bordering India and china. She was a part of India till 1937 and was a part of British imperialism as well. She was declared as an independent country by the Government of India Act, 1935. It has a land area of 261,789 square miles and a population of […]
Read More »LAOS The earliest inhabitants of Laos were hunter-gatherers. Later they were farmers growing rice and pulses. The first farmers used stone tools but from about 2,000 BC bronze was used in Laos and from about 500 BC iron. However unlike Vietnam the people of Laos were influenced by Indian rather than Chinese culture. From the […]
Read More »MALAYSIA During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the […]
Read More »INDONESIA Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands (8,844 named and 922 permanently inhabited) stretching along the equator in South East Asia. The country’s strategic sea-lane position fostered inter-island and international trade; trade has since fundamentally shaped Indonesian history. The archipelago’s landforms and climate significantly influenced agriculture and trade, and the formation […]
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