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- Air Quality Index [r]: A number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the ambient air at a given location. [e]
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Association of South-East Asian Nations; treaty group formed in 1967, originally comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Brunei was admitted as a member in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Burma and Laos in 1997, Cambodia in 1999; Australia is a "dialogue partner". [e]
- Bangla language [r]: An Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. [e]
- Body mass index [r]: Ratio, body weight (kg) to body height (m2), correlates with direct measures body fat; health guide. [e]
- Bonny Hicks [r]: (1968-1997) Singaporean novelist and social critic. [e]
- Butler [r]: Manages all affairs of a household and servicing of principals and guests, providing the service themselves and/or hiring and supervising outside contractors, vendors, housekeeping staff, chef, chauffeur, valet, or personal assistant or secretary. [e]
- CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
- Capital (city) [r]: Usually a major city, where the country's government is typically found. [e]
- Chinese characters [r]: (simplified Chinese 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字) are symbols used to write varieties of Chinese and - in modified form - other languages; world's oldest writing system in continuous use. [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- Cryptography controversy [r]: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. [e]
- English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. [e]
- Focus on the Family [r]: American Christian Right non-profit organization founded in 1977 by James Dobson; Gary Bauer resigned to run for the American Presidency [e]
- Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
- History of television technology [r]: Chronology of the development and history of television. [e]
- Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina [e]
- Indonesia [r]: A country in Southeast Asia. [e]
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee with no announced plan for trial [e]
- Kilometre [r]: An SI unit of length, equal to 1000 metres, commonly used for measuring distances on the earth's surface. [e]
- Lacrosse [r]: Team sport played outdoors by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. [e]
- Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). [e]
- Led Zeppelin [r]: Famous and influential English hard rock and blues group formed in 1968, known for their albums Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti, and songs 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Whole Lotta Love'. [e]
- Lightning [r]: An atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. [e]
- Mandarin language [r]: (traditional Chinese 官話, simplified 官话; pinyin Guānhuà) Sino-Tibetan language, the standard form of which constitutes 'Standard Chinese'; world's largest language by speakers, with approximately 900,000,000 users. [e]
- Metro [r]: An urban transportation system, often with underground trains but not limited to them, as with above-ground trains on separate tracks, busses and light rail [e]
- Nanyang Technological University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Official language [r]: one given political recognition in a region, usually a state, and typically used in politics and law. [e]
- SAFER (cipher) [r]: A family of block ciphers designed primarily by James Massey (one of the designers of IDEA) on behalf of Cylink Corporation. [e]
- Singapore English [r]: Varieties of English spoken in Singapore; umbrella terms for these are Standard Singapore English (SSE) and Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or 'Singlish'). [e]
- South China Sea [r]: A part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by nations of Southeast Asia and East Asia, important for navigation but also for small islands over which resource and sovereignty disputes exist [e]
- South Korea [r]: A democratic republic in East Asia, occupying the southern half of the Korean peninsula; established in 1948 after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. [e]
- Southeast Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strait of Malacca [r]: One of the world's busiest waterways, passing Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines and Thailand, where piracy has been a major problem [e]
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order [r]: A book, by Samuel Huntington, assuming a fundamental conflict between civilizations of different cultures, and discussing grand strategy to deal with this conflict [e]
- U.K. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Most support to Iraq was without the knowledge or approval of U.K. government, but through covert Iraqi purchasing; some authorized dual-use sales were made, but largely ceased with the UN embargo [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]
- U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military equipment, but no direct combat against Iran, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War [e]
- USS Seminole (AKA-104) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship in World War Two [e]
- USS Tulare (AKA-112) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII C4 type attack cargo ship that operated from the 1950s into the late 1970s [e]
- USS Winston (AKA-94) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- University of Manchester [r]: Largest single higher education institution in the United Kingdom. [e]
- Vanessa Mae [r]: (1978–) British classical violinist. [e]
- World of Warcraft [r]: An online video game, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2004. [e]
