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The Asia-Pacific region is an area of the Eastern Hemisphere stretching from India to Polynesia, including the areas known as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia and Oceania, plus “asian” Russia to the north.

This region, containing well over half the world’s entire population, represents broad diversity in culture, economics and politics. Japan and China maintain the second and third-highest world GDPs; third and fourth when considering the EU as a single economic region. The “Asian Tigers” (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) were model growth economies throughout the second half of the 20th century, and are still the fastest growing industrialized economies. This path is now being emulated by the “New Asian Tigers” (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand), all experiencing rapid economic transformation. Australia and New Zealand to the south are generally considered “Western”, but are of course integral to the region’s trade and policy. India is the most populous democracy in the world, is the world’s fourth-largest economy in terms of purchasing power, and maintains very strong ties to Great Britain.

Media:
Asia’s various economies have generally always engaged in some measure of media censorship, but this is on the whole rather limited. Television, radio and newspapers are still the main sources of information, but Asia is well on its way toward being a “wired” continent: China, with only 26% of the population “online”, is already at number 1 ahead of the U.S. (75%), followed by Japan in 3rd place (76%). India holds a remarkable 4th place but with only a mere 7 percent of its population subscribing to the Internet. Not surprisingly, then, Asia is experiencing a social media boom: Japan has the highest blog readership in the world, South Korea is a veritable mobile-access and information-sharing heaven, Thai and Malaysian users get their news from top citizen-journalist Blogs, while users in China and India are heavily into fast video streaming, bulletin boards and online games. As with the rest of the world, social networking is also growing rapidly in all Asian economies.

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Countries in Asia and the Pacific Region:
Australia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
People’s Republic of China
Hong Kong (PRC)
Macau (PRC)
Taiwan
Fiji
Indonesia
Japan
Kiribati
North Korea
South Korea
Laos
Malaysia
Marshall Islands
Mongolia
Myanmar
Federated States of Micronesia
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Russia
Samoa
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Vietnam
American Samoa (USA)
Guam (USA)
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)