Acting Director of the Asia and Australasia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Today, remnants of this DNA amounting to roughly 3 of some people s genomes are present in Australasia. This indicates that the Denisovans must have existed not just in Siberia, but also along the southeast Asian route that early modern humans used to reach Australasia, where the hypothesized hybridization occurred.

The recent use of global transponders on two satellites made it possible for viewers in 156 countries in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas to watch Myanmar television programmes.

The Coalition's regional or national representatives have been active in Antarctic Treaty States in the Americas, Australasia, Europe and Southern Africa and in India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

We evolved as a species in the savanna lands of Africa, but then you see humans migrating into new environments, into desert lands, into jungles, into the ice age tundra of Siberia tough, tough environment into the Americas, into Australasia.

Here in Australasia, we imported this perspective from overseas, actively suppressing more holistic Maori and Aboriginal understandings about human distress. We did so despite numerous studies that show that recovery rates from mental illness in underdeveloped countries are far superior to those in advanced societies.

The situation is further complicated by additional instances of ancient interbreeding among native populations in Africa and Australasia (for example, Australia, New Guinea, and Bougainville). In the latter case, the interbreeding derived from a population known so far from only one site Denisova cave in southern Siberia.

At the international and regional levels, Malaysia continues to be an active partner in the Global Road Safety Partnership under the aegis of the World Bank, the World Road Association, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Land Transport and Safety Committee, the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia and the ASEAN sub working group on road transport and road safety.

It is noteworthy that, whereas a few decades ago most of the cases of the Court came from the older States, today Africa ranks high as a source of cases in the Court, and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and East Asia, as well as the Americas, Europe, and Australasia, have all brought cases before it. A diversity in the clientele of the Court that mirrors the diversity of the Court apos s composition is reassuring.