Word: asianization
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...SHOULD SUCCEED ANNAN AS SECRETARY-GENERAL? I have lots of views on lots of things. But the official American position is, we have never accepted any notion of geographical rotation and we favor the best-qualified candidate, wherever that candidate comes from. If the best-qualified person is an Asian, we'd be delighted. If the best-qualified person is from somewhere else, we'd be delighted at that too. Western Europe has had three Secretaries-General, Latin America has had one, Africa has had two, and Asia has had one. Eastern Europe has never had any. If there...
...THAKSIN UNDER FIRE? When the Prime Minister first took office in 2001, Thailand was still struggling to overcome the Asian financial crisis. Thaksin boosted domestic demand with cheap loans and government handouts. By 2003, Thailand was leading the pack of Southeast Asian tigers. The same year, Thaksin declared war on Thailand's drug trade, cracking down on suppliers and small-time dealers. Over 2,500 of them died-killed, said government officials, by other criminals. (Human-rights groups claimed the killings were carried out by Thai security forces.) The campaign was welcomed by ordinary Thais fed up with the prevalence...
...opponent gets a call on his mobile phone there is no chirrup of birdsong or snatch of the William Tell Overture. Instead the phone emits a recording of his own voice shrieking, "Thaksin! Get Out!" Sondhi, 58, is a former media mogul who was hammered during the Asian financial crisis but managed to claw his way back into the black with help from a fellow magnate: ironically, Thaksin himself...
...During the early 1990s Sondhi's Manager Media Group owned an assortment of magazines, newspapers and satellite channels. In Bangkok and other Asian cities, Sondhi was a fixture on the social circuit. "I was a very arrogant young man at that time," he recalls. In Bangkok, he met another upcoming media tycoon. Thaksin and he "were never friends, only acquaintances," Sondhi insists. But soon they were doing business together. In 1992, Thaksin invested in the share offering of IEC, a mobile-phone handset distributor that Sondhi had bought and which sold handsets to Shin subsidiary...
...moment when he found out that golden celebrity couple Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson had broken up that Dipak D. Chaudhari ‘08 said he lost his innocence. Recalling his own numerous rejections by girls throughout his life because of his South Asian heritage, he realized that his innocence had always been on tenterhooks. Ironically, his only comfort is to “look at Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. They’re still together, and if they can make it, anyone can.” Chaudhari’s monologue comically looked at the recurring theme...