Word: asianization
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...rolling south from Pyongyang toward Kaesong near the DMZ, searching for signs of economic life in North Korea. Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial...
...earthquake relief effort has received support from a variety of student groups, ranging from Dharma and the South Asian Association to the Japan Society and the Harvard Premedical Society...
...Year 5 of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons...
...violent action to put Arnold and Sly out of business. Exoticism, artistry, hurtling pace--these movies have it all. Yet they remain the province of Indian and Chinese emigres and of the cultists who haunt downtown or mail-order video outlets. The one exception, Jackie Chan, was a huge Asian star a dozen years before his first Hong Kong film got a U.S. release...
...example, Women in Business, a group that helps its members network with finance big-wigs and prepare for professional life, partnered with investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley for last week’s convention at the Marriot Hotel in Boston. The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations boasts a similarly impressive list of conference sponsors, including the Mitsubishi Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler, and the Daiwa Securities Group.Friedman and Vandenberg have taken a cue from such groups, and this month, they plan to move their operation off campus for a “JetBlue Day?...