We see West Asia as part of our extended neighbourhood.

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

— Rudyard Kipling

[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of…

— Jim Rogers

The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

The East caused all the problems and the West gets all the blame.

— Steve Fowler

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from…

— Baz Luhrmann

Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph…

— Gareth Gates

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian…

— Jim Costa

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…

— Linda Grant

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty…

— Anna Lindh