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...boss at the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, is keenly watching what the Kiwis are doing. Since becoming director in 1987, Hall began "a policy shift that took our gaze north and east," he says. Not only has he amassed one of the world's finest collections of modern Asian and Pacific art but, as of August next year, he will have a glassy new gallery in addition to the current one to display it in. Hall describes the $82 million Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (200 m along the Brisbane River from the QAG) as a floating pavilion...
...Columbia’s Intercultural Resource Center, Harvard’s cultural center could offer art exhibits, lecture series, diversity training, and discussion groups. To further promote an atmosphere of learning, the center could even contain a library devoted entirely to information on Black and African cultures, Hispanic cultures, Asian cultures and more...
Sathirathai has been unanimously endorsed by the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), making his chances at leading the U.N. appear favorable. He is also reportedly backed by the People’s Republic of China, one of five permanent members of the Security Council...
...Eggs from the LEATHERBACK TURTLE, once common throughout coastal Asian countries, are sought as an aphrodisiac...
...ringleader, 30-year-old Mohammed Sidique Khan. TIME has learned that Khan, who described himself in the tape as a "soldier" inspired by Osama bin Laden, may have had a much more direct and long-term involvement with al-Qaeda than previously thought?and also a connection to Southeast Asian terrorist groups. A regional security official tells TIME that an Islamic radical currently detained in Malaysia has admitted that he acted as Khan's guide on two occasions in 2001, when the Leeds-born special-education tutor was transiting in Malaysia on a reconnaissance mission for al-Qaeda. The radical...