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| | Chinese Singaporean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Traditionally, the Chinese are adherents of a mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, | | | A minority (20%) of Singaporean Chinese, which is equal to the total number of religious adherents in Singapore to 13.5% are Christian. | | | Buddhism took a downturn, as the rich and educated Chinese Singaporeans viewed Buddhism as an obstacle to the modern context of society. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Singaporean
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| | Encyclopedia: Malaysian Chinese |
| | The majorty of the Chinese Malaysian claim to be Buddhist or Taoist (though the lines between them are often blurred and, typically, a syncretic Chinese religion incorporating elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and traditional ancestor-worship is practised), with the fact that each individual follows it in varying degrees. | | | This diaspora is commonly referred to as the Nanyang Chinese, 'Nanyang' (南洋) being the Mandarin term for Southeast Asia. | | | Most are descendants of Chinese who arrived between the 17th and 19th centuries. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Malaysian-Chinese
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| | Singapore culture and asian food information and recipes from asia |
| | The Chinese are predominantly followers of Buddhism and Shenism (deity worship), though some are Christians. | | | Despite rapid industrialisation, the majority of Singaporeans celebrate the major festivals associated with their respective religions. | | | Chinese, Hindu and Muslim celebrations follow a lunar calendar so dates of festivities vary from year to year. |
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http://asiarecipe.com/sinculture.html
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| | Quality-Nation : Asians are our Nation |
| | On the other hand I find that Singaporeans express their displeasure in very clever ways and I am convinced that those who give me nasty looks have an issue towards me either because I am a foreigner or because I'm someone who does not speak their language or have in depth knowledge of their culture. | | | In Chinese Taiwan I have true brothers and sisters and a whole posse of lifelong friends who I chat with electronically regularly almost a decade later. | | | I'm sorry to say that Singaporeans were the coldest, most narrow-minded and foreigner-hating of all the places I've been. |
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http://www.quality-nation.com/impress.htm
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| | SINGAPORE UNDERGROUND: A train ride |
| | Randy explained that the Chinese in Indonesia are very rich and according to him they had low regard for the Chinese Indonesians as they are greedy and a mercenary bunch of people. | | | They were for the most part seen as a threat and in oneâs opinion; this formed the historical basis of the perceptions of the Chinese of people like Mazlan and Randy. | | | I gave up trying to prove that I am Singaporean and said instead that I am Malaysian, a lie, which they readily believed, and an aspect that I found rather convenient. |
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http://sporeunderground.blogspot.com/2004/06/train-ride.html
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| | Floorball and Singapore |
| | Similar to chinese new year, during this festival, muslims will wear new clothes, pray to their gods and go house visiting. | | | Before Chinese New Year, it is also a superstition to have a major house cleaning before the new year arrives. | | | It is believed that a family should dispose off all the old and dirty things that they no longer want so that the new year can bring about new and good things! |
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http://www.umfloorball.blogspot.com
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| | Silent Desires: Welcome to Paradox Island |
| | Just wanted to say that it's definitely not true that Singaporean Chinese don't have the experience of being discriminated against. | | | What we call racism is manifested very differently in other places where people have social etiquette that doesnt' come into line with where we come from (yes, am a fellow Singaporean who left, albeit for reasons that didn't include the race thing). | | | However, i feel that this is not the place for me. And i am living, as much as i can. |
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http://hugodeepred.blogspot.com/2005/01/welcome-to-paradox-island.html
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| | 20 January 1999 |
| | We must teach Chinese as a living language to be used in our daily lives, and not something from the past that is no longer relevant to the present. | | | I asked them if we could include a few classical texts in the HCL textbooks, because the classical passages which were taught in the old Chinese schools left a deep and permanent impression. | | | This will have a major impact on the learning and teaching of Chinese Language in schools. |
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http://www.moe.gov.sg/speeches/1999/200199.htm
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| | Dialects |
| | The Hakkas of Fujian and Guangdong migrated to southern China in two separate waves: during the tenth century and between the twelfth and thirteen centuries. | | | Hakkas are found today in parts fo Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Taiwan and in pockets in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Hainan island. | | | Even in offices, this form of tea is served as a gesture of hospitality. |
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http://www.post1.com/home/zhuangfu/dialects.htm
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| | Homosexuality: How the economics and politics of Singapore have shaped the Anglican Diocese and its role in the ... |
| | However, it is important to note that the Buddhism and Taoism of the immigrant overseas Chinese are a folk, rather than a scholarly tradition. | | | Several studies done by the National University of Singapore in the 1980's showed that younger Chinese people had converted from the traditional and syncretized Taoism-Buddhism (which is the majority religion) to Christianity. | | | Finally, the churches are growing because Singaporeans, despite their new found wealth, live in perpetual fear of economic disaster. |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/lenglim2.html
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| | Mission Possible: Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
| | Singapore is a multi-racial country with Malays, Indians, Chinese and Eurasians living in harmony. | | | Different ethnic groups in Singapore may practise different religions and culture, but they all call themselves, 'Singaporeans'. | | | The whole nation celebrates the festivals and religious holidays of the other ethnic group and these days are designated 'public holidays'. |
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http://mission-possible.blogspot.com/2004_12_23_mission-possible_archive.html
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| | Faith Community Baptist Church |
| | Four years ago, a law was passed that prohibited religions from trying to convert others to their own faith. | | | The worship leaders alternated between Chinese and English as they exhorted the congregation to dance and to enter into the worship. | | | Along with the spiritual aspects of ministry, FCBC reaches out to the physical needs of the Singaporeans through day care centers, after school clubs, centers for the handicapped and deaf, diabetic support groups, and legal counseling (Egli 1993:2). |
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http://celycecomiskey.tripod.com/faith_community_baptist_church.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | In Huang Na's case, Mdm Huang, who was once convicted for overstaying, was allowed to come back as her guardian. | | | The amount of money collected has not been revealed, but some letters say the parents are now richer by more than S$100,000. | | | The Huang Na story has captivated the hearts of Singaporeans. |
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http://www.littlespeck.com/content/lifestyle/CTrendsLifestyle-041128.htm
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| | my pitas page |
| | The other advantage is that "Mandarin unified the diverse Chinese dialect groups and enabled people to converse with one another". | | | -"Some Chinese were particularly offended by the suggestion that dialects transmit no worthwhile culture and that ignorance of Mandarin made Singapore Chinese rootless." | | | What is spoken in Mandarin can be written down word for word in the Chinese language"--> Although dialects cannot be written in words, but they do still remain viable for oral communication |
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http://hc103.pitas.com
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| | yax-237 Chinese names for Chinese Singaporeans |
| | You’re only Singaporean with respect to where you live, not what you are. | | | The whole argument in favour of Chinese names, you see, rests on the idea of being Chinese. | | | Right here in Southeast Asia, we have examples in the Thai Chinese and the Filipino Chinese. |
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http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2001/yax-237.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Republic of Singapore |
| | The majority of Chinese Singaporeans follow Buddhism, although Daoism (Taoism), and more recently Christianity, are also popular. | | | Malay Singaporeans are predominantly Muslim, while more than half the Indian Singaporeans profess Hinduism. | | | About three-fourths of the people of Singapore, known as Singaporeans, are Chinese, but there are significant Malay and Indian minorities. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559956/Republic_of_Singapore.html
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| | yax-186 |
| | For example, many Singaporeans ah, they never take bus one. | | | I give you another example: Lester he say, "my sergeant very bochap one, but the other platoon ah, the NCO always tekan them. | | | Is this acceptable to those who live and die by the motto, "Chinese should be Chinese"? |
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http://www.geocities.com/yawning_bread/yax-186.htm
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| | Get For Me Singapore PRIME MINISTER'S NATIONAL DAY SPEECH 2002 FrontPage 19 AUG 2002 |
| | The Singapore nation is not just those of us living here, but also the thousands of loyal Singaporeans who live around the world. | | | Last year, many Singaporeans urged the Government to reconsider the matter, and preserve Chek Jawa. | | | In the 60s and 70s, thousands of Chinese crossed the border in search of a better life in Hong Kong. |
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http://www.getforme.com/previous2002/previous190802_ExcerptOfPMsNationalDaySpeech_more.htm
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| | Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Overseas Chinese in southeast Asia (particularly in Malaysia and | | | Chinese nationalism, cultural, historiographical, and political theories, movements and beliefs that assert the idea of a cohesive, unified Chinese people and | | | The Chinese expression Zhongguo ren (中國人 or 中国人) literally means "Chinese person" but usually refers to a person of Chinese nationality. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese
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| | Leng Leng Thang |
| | It is common to see churches, mosques, and Chinese temples alongside each other. | | | I am, as you know by now, a Chinese female Singaporean. | | | The official languages are Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, and English. |
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http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/UAS/Lengleng2.html
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| | WIN Thai serves up comfort food for Singaporeans - Dining - Enjoy Life - Newsgd |
| | Situated at Donghai Garden, a high-end real estate and commercial complex, WIN Thai is patronized by foreigners and Chinese white-collar workers alike, not to mention by homesick Thais and Singaporeans. | | | There are many Thai restaurants serving Thai and Southeast Asian food in Shenzhen, but it is virtually impossible to find any Singaporean dishes. | | | Yeo said WIN Thai began to serve Singaporean dishes because of strong demand from some homesick Singaporean friends who work in Shenzhen. |
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http://www.newsgd.com/enjoylife/living/dining/200411160002.htm
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| | CollegeJournal Country Profiles |
| | However, today most Singaporeans enjoy racial harmony and national unity. | | | Singapore is a conglomeration of Chinese (76%), Malay (15%) and Indian (6%) cultures. | | | Due to different ethnic groups and the modern character of Singaporeans, there are many different attires acceptable. |
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http://www.collegejournal.com/countryprofiles/countryprofiles/singapore.html
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| | Singapore Food -- ThingsAsian Article |
| | Shiok, as a Chinese would say after the meal. | | | The first, shiok, is a Chinese dialect which expresses that which is darn good and sedap is a Malay word meaning delicious. | | | Judging by their love for food and the extent they would travel to even the farthest corner of Singapore (although the island state is a mere 42 km from east to west and 23 km from north to south), it appears that the people in this nation state eat to live. |
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http://www.thingsasian.com/goto_article/article.1419.html
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| | Asia Pacific Media Network :: Story, Print Version |
| | Mr Raymond Huang, 37, chairman of Heartware Network, a charitable youth organisation, said: 'Singaporean youngsters must take a larger world view of things and learn we're not the centre of the world.' | | | There may be some Singaporeans who look down on mainland Chinese, but that could be because they haven't interacted with mainland Chinese.' | | | Associate Professor Hao Xiaoming, vice-dean of the school of communication and information at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), said: 'The student has no right to say anyone is stupid. |
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http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/print.asp?parentid=10161
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Singapore |
| | Buddhist (Chinese), Muslim (Malays), Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist, Confucianist | | | Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% | | | Chinese (official), Malay (official and national), Tamil (official), English (official) |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sn.html
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| | talkYing: Never ending story :) |
| | News: 25% say no need for Chinese to speak language | | | However, a "half-tone" (slam in Chinese, meaning things not be done precisily/exactly) Chinese or English might not be a good idea. | | | There is always always debate on making Chinese language the mandatory |
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http://talkying.nomadlife.org/2004/12/never-ending-story.aspx
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| | Singapore's Chinese New Year Present |
| | Note that China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan ROC, Malaysia, Vietnam are closed already for Chinese New Year. | | | This is the government's own red packet to it's people, and the stock market rose as a result in their half-day only trading this Chinese New Year eve. | | | Traditionally at Chinese New Year, Chinese Singaporeans (making up 75% of the population of around 4 million), together with mainland and immigrated Chinese worldwide exchange small red "packets" contained token amounts of money in auspicious denominations for good luck. |
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http://www.apmforum.com/hariini/archives/000030.php
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| | goUgOu: November 2004 |
| | And I was very shocked by one of the threads, " What are Singaporeans?" | | | This forum is written in Japanese and so many Japanese who live in Singapore vent their frustrations or their queries in the forum about Singaporeans, especially since most Singaporean will not read the forum. | | | We have been too used to speaking a language that is sprinkled with phrases from the different languages in our daily life, that we forgot how to speak in one language alone. |
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http://zhongruan.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_zhongruan_archive.html
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| | Malaysians and Singaporeans - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand |
| | Singaporeans only began to arrive from the 1960s; but of the 975 Singapore-born people who were living in New Zealand by 1971, most were probably British expatriates. | | | While most Singaporeans are ethnically Chinese, in cultural terms many are Malay. | | | Of this total, only 2,052 were Malay and most of the rest were Chinese. |
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http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/MalaysiansAndSingaporeans/en?print=true
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| | Singapore: Professor defends race survey results |
| | Chinese should treat the response as a very frank reply from "a group of people who may be a little naive, but do not mean any harm". | | | While the answers to the ethnic identity question could not capture all the different dimensions posed by the survey, Professor Chang said they would be used as an indicator to measure a person's appreciation of and confidence and pride in his or her ethnic group. | | | In response to the outcry over the results from elder Singaporeans, Parliamentary Secretary Chan Soo Sen said there was no need to be alarmed by the desire of young Chinese Singaporeans to be foreigners. |
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http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/91224sc.htm
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| | you're my meatball!: everyone likes mundane posts |
| | she mentioned she did her dissertation on how being unable to speak mandarin when you are chinese should not affect your self-esteem. | | | and you, an NTU undergrad can't even say the name of your course in chinese (Communication Studies. | | | she relentlessly compared us to the US, forgetting that the chinese culture is very much more collectivistic than the rest. |
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http://pearlyyyyy.blogspot.com/2005/01/everyone-likes-mundane-posts.html
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| | Singaporeans with a deep knowledge of Chinese culture and traditions were a "dying breed", yet it was crucial to have them if Singapore was to be able to engage China economically and politically. | | | These pointed to a dilution of Chinese knowledge in Singapore, said Mr Lee, noting that even if he were to re-introduce Chinese schools now, nobody would attend them. | | | Unlike in the past, they will be English-educated and live in HDB flats surrounded by other races, says SM |
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http://www.huaren.org/diaspora/asia/singapore/id/032899-01.html
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| | Articles - Singaporeans into having English names |
| | She does have a Chinese name though--Chen Xin--but she uses this only during her Chinese lessons at kindergarten. | | | EVEN though she is Chinese, three-year-old Eshir Tan has neither a dialect nor a hanyu pinyin name on her birth certificate. | | | Her mother, Tong Swee Lee, said that she and her husband are English-educated and had problems choosing a Chinese name for their daughter. |
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http://www.discoverkate.com/Articles/20010621_thestar-singapore-names.html
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| | da*xiang: Food of Singaporeans |
| | In Malay and Indian homes, which are more conservative, men usually eat first and the women eat later. | | | When Singaporeans serve food at home, they usually place dishes in the centre of the table at the beginning of a meal, so that everyone can help themselves throughout the meal. | | | Hawker centres are popular markets where Singaporeans can buy Chinese, Malay and Indian food from stalls. |
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http://www.stefmike.org/mt-archives/000116.html
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| | ``This is a significant portion of young Singaporeans that are unhappy with their ethnic background. | | | Still, Chen said he was not worried about young Chinese losing pride in their ethnicity. | | | But novelist Lim said she believed that many of the discontented young respondents were simply frustrated with Singapore's conservative society and tight government controls. |
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http://www.huaren.org/diaspora/asia/singapore/news/121799-01.html
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| | Expat Perks Drying Up - Even for S'poreans Abroad |
| | 'Singaporeans have many skills and training the locals do not have,' he says. | | | Precise numbers of Singaporean executives seeking work abroad are hard to come by but headhunters and human resource consultants generally say they are increasing. | | | 'All in all, if Singaporeans are prepared to venture overseas, especially to China, their chances of securing employment are very high, even if on expat terms,' she says. |
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=3488
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| | don't go changing |
| | There are too many people who cannot pronounce Chinese hanyu pinyin names, but have perfected “posh” French words so they sound right at home in restaurants. | | | Some Singaporeans do that too, and they rank right below there with all discourteous people of the world. |
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http://icicly.blogspot.com/2005/02/quite-frankly-anyone-can-write-decent.html
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| | Singaporeans adopting Chinese girls |
| | SINGAPORE: The first group of 18 abandoned girls from Chinese orphanages are now with loving parents in Singapore under a new arrangement between the two countries, news reports said yesterday. | | | Twenty more applications are being processed for the next group, The Straits Times said. |
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/16/asia/11229298&sec=asia
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