Yearbook 2010 North Korea. The constant tensions on the Korean Peninsula took on a couple of unusually violent expressions during the year. In March, a South Korean warship exploded and sank near the disputed border of the Yellow Sea; 46 sailors perished. An international investigation concluded that the ship was lowered by a torpedo fired…
Category: Asia
Vietnam, which was badly damaged by the war, experienced a considerable economic upswing with strong growth rates from the end of the 1980s. The main export goods include food (coffee, tea, rice, bananas, etc.), textiles, petroleum and electronic devices. The growing prosperity is, however, very unevenly distributed between town and country. Around a quarter of the country’s economic power is concentrated in the greater Ho Chi Minh City area, while only 20% of the national income is generated in the rural regions, where 60% of the population live. The capital Hanoi forms a second economic center.
Thanks to a sustained economic upswing, Malaysia has developed from a raw material supplier to a diversified industrial location. According to the HDI, it is one of the countries with a high level of human development. The economy is export-oriented: Malaysia, for example, supplies microchips and solar cells all over the world. A second focus is on raw materials such as crude oil, natural gas and palm oil; Much of the palm oil produced worldwide comes from Malaysia and Indonesia. At the same time, the country is one of the world’s largest rubber producers; two thirds of the global demand for latex gloves, for example, is covered by Malaysia. The exports of the state-owned oil company contribute to the state revenue.
Myanmar was ruled by a military government until 2010, through which the country was internationally isolated for a long time. Although Myanmar has enormous potential thanks to extensive arable land and considerable reserves of natural gas (the largest in Southeast Asia), woods, precious stones, copper and other raw materials, it is one of the least developed countries in the world. There are realistic hopes of an economic upswing, but the infrastructure is currently still in desolation. For more information about the continent of Asia, please check thesciencetutor.org.
Nepal 2010
Yearbook 2010 Nepal. According to softwareleverage, a week-long strike in May, led by the Maoist Party, marked the beginning of a long political crisis. The Maoists, who themselves led a short-lived government in 2008-09, claimed that the government did not have the people’s support and had failed to commit to give the country a new…
Myanmar 2010
Yearbook 2010 Burma. Throughout the year, all attention was directed to the general elections promised by the military junta after pushing through a new constitution in 2008, which would make the country appear democratic. In March, a new electoral law was passed, according to which the military junta would hand-pick members of an electoral commission….
Mongolia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Mongolia. After a dry and hot summer of 2009, which destroyed a significant part of the hay crop, Mongolia was hit by an unusually bitter winter with a lot of snow and a temperature around -40 ° C for long periods in most of the country. Millions of livestock animals succumbed to the…
Maldives 2010
Yearbook 2010 During the year, according to softwareleverage, the Maldives was in a drawn-out political tug of war between the government and the opposition, which almost paralyzed both the work of Parliament and the government. In June, the entire government collectively resigned, citing the opposition, which has a majority in parliament, blocking all legislative proposals….
Malaysia 2010
In 2010, Malaysia was a vibrant and diverse country made up of 13 different states and 3 federal territories. It was a multicultural society with Malays, Chinese and Indians coexisting in harmony. Malaysia enjoyed a booming economy due to its strategic location on the South China Sea, where it became an important trading post for…
Lebanon 2010
Yearbook 2010 Lebanon. The excitement surrounding the UN-led investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri in 2005 escalated during the year. The investigation reportedly targeted his suspicions of the Syria-backed Hizbullah movement, which prompted Syria to try to pressure Rafiq al-Hariri’s son, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, to distance himself from the investigation….
Laos 2010
Yearbook 2010 Laos. When Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith traveled to Washington in July, he became the highest-ranking representative of the Lao government to visit the United States since the Communist Party took power in the country in 1975. Thongloun Sisoulith and his US colleague Hillary Clinton signed, among other things, a civil aviation agreement. The…
Kyrgyzstan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Kyrgyzstan is a country located in Central Asia. Protests against the authoritarian regime turned bloody in April between bloody riots between opposition protesters and riot police in the capital Bishkek. Over 80 people were killed and many hundreds injured. President Kurmanbek Bakijev fled to his home districts in the south where he had…
Kuwait 2010
Yearbook 2010 Kuwait. In May, Kuwaiti security police revealed a spy cell acting on behalf of Iran. According to newspaper reports, the spies had passed on information about the Kuwaiti army and about US troops based in Kuwait to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to COUNTRYAAH, Kuwait has a population of 4.137 million (2018). A…
Kazakhstan 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, Kazakhstan has a population of 18.28 million (2018). Kazakhstan became President of the OSCE at the New Year, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The role of Kazakhstan was questioned in many Member States because of the lack of democracy and the suppression of human rights. President Nursultan…
Jordan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Jordan. The royal house strengthened its power by a new electoral law, which came into force in May, and by securing the majority of the mandate in the new parliamentary elections on November 9. The election was held after a year of direct royal rule since King Abdullah dissolved the former parliament in…
Japan 2010
In 2010, Japan was a rapidly developing country. After the economic crisis of the late 1990s, Japan had made great strides in recovering and rebuilding its economy. The government had implemented a number of reforms to stimulate growth and development. In addition to its strong industrial base, Japan’s technology sector was booming with the rise…
Israel 2010
Yearbook 2010 Israel. On May 31, the Israeli Navy stormed the international aid convoy “Ship to Gaza”, en route with supplies to the closed Gaza Strip, killing nine Turkish activists. On board the six ships of the convoy were hundreds of activists from 32 countries, including eleven from Sweden. When Israeli commandos, via helicopters and…
Iraq 2010
Yearbook 2010 Iraq. After an over nine-month power struggle, the Iraqi Parliament approved a new government on December 21, representing all the country’s dominant political movements. The March 7 parliamentary elections resulted in an almost dead race between incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s coalition The Rule of Law, which received 89 of 325 seats, and…
Iran 2010
Yearbook 2010 Iran. The first official executions of activists who had participated in the protests against the 2009 parliamentary elections were carried out on January 28. Mohammed Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged since being convicted of belonging to a monarchist group and being so-called enemies of God. Earlier in January, a parliamentary…
Indonesia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Indonesia. Both the government and the business community were shaken when Parliament demanded a judicial inquiry in March against Vice President Boediono and Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati. In 2008, they had approved that the state went into the equivalent of SEK 4.8 billion to save the crisis-hit Bank Century. According to…
India 2010
In 2010, India was a country of vast diversity and potential. It had a population of over 1.2 billion people and was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Despite its rapid growth, India still faced many challenges such as poverty, illiteracy and inadequate infrastructure. The government at the time was focused on…
Georgia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Georgia. In January, air travel between Tbilisi and Moscow resumed, one and a half years after the war between Georgia and the Russian Federation. In March, the two countries also opened the only useful border crossing, which had been closed for three years. At the beginning of the year, three militants were sentenced…
East Timor 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to COUNTRYAAH, East Timor has a population of 1.268 million (2018). East Timor was recognized during the year for progress in the work against corruption and for strengthened legal security. For the time being, the country was given an official with overall responsibility for the fight against corruption. The opposition has earlier…
Cyprus 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cyprus. The conflict between the parties on the shared island remained unsolved. In the Turkish Cypriot presidential election in April, Derviş Eroğlu, the head of government and leader of the right-wing National Unity Party (UBP), won. He appointed newly appointed UBP leader İrsen K邦ç邦k, who previously held several ministerial posts, as new prime…
China 2010
Yearbook 2010 China toured like a growing, for some frightening, dragon on the world stage in 2010. During the summer, the country went about Japan as the world’s second largest economy. But the US remained in first place – its GDP was still three times that of China: $ 14.6 trillion, against 5.7 trillion for…
Cambodia 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cambodia. For a long time, the first verdict came against a leader in the Communist Red Khmer terrorist regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. It had been over 30 years since the regime’s fall and four years since the UN-backed tribunal began its work. According to COUNTRYAAH, Cambodia has a population of 16.25…
Brunei 2010
Yearbook 2010 Brunei. The world’s largest free trade agreement, per capita, entered into force on January 1 between China and the six ASEAN members Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. (The ASEAN also includes Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.) The agreement means that import duties will be abolished on 90 percent of the commodities…
Bhutan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Bhutan. On April 28-29, Bhutan hosted for the first time a summit between the South Asian countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Bhutan has been a member since SAARC was formed in 1985, but had previously refused to hold the summit because of the country’s lack of infrastructure. The…
Bangladesh 2010
Yearbook 2010 Bangladesh. The 2009 revolt in a semi-military border union when 74 people were killed, most of the higher commanders, began to have their legal aftermath. Several hundred lower-level soldiers – out of a total of about 3,500 defendants – were jailed for up to seven years. Trials continued throughout the year. In July,…
Bahrain 2010
Yearbook 2010 Bahrain. The year was marked by escalated contradictions between the Sunni Muslim clan ruling the country and the Shiite opposition, which represents a large portion of the country’s Shiite Muslim population. In the months before the October 23 parliamentary elections, about twenty Shi’ite Muslim activists were arrested, according to softwareleverage, many of them…
Azerbaijan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Azerbaijan. BP and other oil companies drilled for new oil deposits in the Caspian Sea, and the country’s oil boom seemed to be prolonged. Critics found that Azerbaijan’s growing oil wealth contributed to increasing economic gaps and widespread corruption. According to the independent organization Transparency International’s corruption index, Azerbaijan ranked 143 out of…
Armenia 2010
Yearbook 2010 According to softwareleverage, Armenia’s conflict with Turkey over history became an international issue during the year. In February, Armenia’s parliament decided to give President Serzh Sarkisian the power to revoke the preliminary peace agreement between the countries. Turkey had not accepted the Armenian position that there was Turkish mass murder of Armenians in…
Asia Geology
Asia is both the largest and youngest of Earth’s continents. Most of the Asian continent is part of the Eurasian Plate together with Europe, other parts belong to other Plates. The Arabian Peninsula is not included in Asia in plate tectonic context. Follow Abbreviationfinder for Asia acronyms. According to Countryaah, Asia is divided into 6…
Afghanistan 2010
Yearbook 2010 Afghanistan. The military situation, seen from the perspective of the government and NATO forces, steadily deteriorated during the year. Already in early November, well over 600 NATO soldiers had been killed, more than 100 more than 2009. Even in the northern provinces of which the Swedish force is responsible for the fighting increased…