Tom is proud of his homeland.

James Baldwin, for example, found a home in France.

But Asia is home to a multiplicity of unresolved territorial disputes.

This has meant that I have always seen France as my second home.

I feel the desire to renew my ties with my native country.

We still do have that bond with the home country.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader has called for the ending violence in the refugees home countries.

There is actually quite a variety of bees, wasps and hornets native to Japan.

In its Muslim era, Iran has boasted of some of the greatest poets, writers, and scientists in the world.

He insisted on having his wife accompany him, even saying that he would not go alone.

However, this division was far from absolute, and in the nineteenth century, Western Europe, Central Europe, and Russia were closely linked as a united cultural and economic space, which grew and developed despite religious diversity and political upheavals.

The other most common countries of birth were the United Kingdom (3.4 ), India (2.7 ), China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) (2.3 ), Italy (1.7 ) and New Zealand (1.7 ).

There is no political risk involved the Swiss have no powerful lobby in the United States or the EU that they can mobilize as the birthplace of private banking, Switzerland has enormous symbolic value as the world leader in private banking, it triggers jealousies.

Familial bonds brought Vietnamese migrants to Slovakia, yet it is the close ties to their home country that unites the community.

The same is true for Germany, which is home to some of the most efficient pulverized coal combustion units in Europe.

In other words, the countries from which the politically powerful tax evaders and avoiders come are supposed to design a system to reduce tax evasion.

Yet, Japan is home to some truly unique flavors of this summertime favourite the kinds of things you won t find on US ice cream maker Baskin Robbins' famous list of 31 flavors.

Officially, it is a day for the celebration of the end of colonial rule and the unification with the motherland, and that message is reflected in the city s ceremony decorations and theme songs.

But he has made no headway at all with the regime that rules his homeland, and he has been unable to prevent Tibet s inexorable transformation into a Chinese province.

Thus, the Islamic revolutionaries in 1979 made a point of preserving the Zoroastrian fire temples. In its Muslim era, Iran has boasted of some of the greatest poets, writers, and scientists in the world.

There is no other example of a nation that returned after a 2,000 year absence to a territory that it never stopped regarding as its homeland.

Tailoring financial products for diaspora communities could attract resources for investment, while reinforcing migrants ties economic and otherwise to their home countries.

LONDON Home to one sixth of the world s people, but contributing only one fortieth of world GDP, Africa is the most conspicuous victim of the global recession.

I have story ideas for France, but also abroad, and of course I will return to Lebanon regularly. It is my adopted country after all.

Grunge evolved from the local punk rock scene, and was inspired by bands such as The Fartz, The U Men, 10 Minute Warning, The Accüsed, and the Fastbacks.

The monarchy was overthrown in 1952 without violence, and for 250 years Egypt has shown itself capable of producing both radical and reformist political trends.

Under the banner of a Eurasian Union, and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland.

More than half of Bangladesh s territory, home to 100 million inhabitants, is threatened by flooding, as is the Netherlands, with 16 million people, for a quarter of its territory.

This is striking in and of itself, but even more so on the part of a country that is the birthplace of international law and prides itself on its tradition of open mindedness and the upholding of human rights.

This is the same country that has produced a great number of enormously powerful female politicians long before America even honestly broached the subject Indira Gandhi being the case in point.

Maalouf hopes that one day he can call all of the Middle East his homeland, and that his grandson will find his book a strange memento of a time when these arguments had to be put forward.

While many Muslims settle in Tokyo, other international cities in Japan such as Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe are home to mosques that serve a vibrant Muslim community.

Since reunification with our motherland, we have the added safeguard of the Basic Law, which gives effect to the principles of one country, two systems and Hong Kong s people running Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy.

Even the free circulation of workers and people in Europe is a well established and positive reality 2 of EU citizens more than 10 million people reside in a Union member country other than their native one.

After all, they are the homes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung companies whose innovations transform the way other sectors, from financial services to telecoms and media, do business.

Ansary doesn t support or identify with the regime that has held power since the Islamic Revolution On a very emotional level I feel a deep connection to my homeland, she told me, but for the last four decades. . . . this regime is a dark stain and a dark cloud over the real Iran.

He referred carelessly to the killing as an individual mistake, just like thousands of individual mistakes being made throughout the country, forgetting, or pretending to have forgotten that this particular individual mistake was a mother, was a history of love, compassion and memories, was a homeland for its family.