Results for “Asia Society”

…ircumvent executive term limits. The result has been a resurgence of potential leaders-forlife from Latin America to Eurasia. • While more subtle and calibrated methods of repression are the defining feature of modern authoritarianism, the past few years have featured a reemergen...

… Howard Wise gallery opened its show of Wen-Ying Tsai’s “Cybernetic Sculpture” in midtown Manhattan, and Polish émigré Jasia Reichardt opened her exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” at London’s ICA. (The “Cybernetic” in her title was intended to evoke “made by or with computers,”...

…erences in how those living in small-scale societies, including the hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers of Africa, Asia, and South America, should respond to unfair exchanges. The American anthropologist Joseph Henrich and his colleagues presented a set of bargaining games t...

…Dugan (guitarist for Matisyahu), Multi-genre violinist/ composer Todd Reynolds, Grammy-Nominated classical artists Anastasia Khitruk (violin), and the Enso Quartet, Marcus Printup from Jazz at Lincoln Center, and jazz saxophonist Seamus Blake, and singer-songwriter Amy Correia. P...

…ggle to survive,” the historian John Darwin has written of the British Empire, “was waged in an age of revolution: a Eurasian revolution that cumulatively (but very quickly) destroyed almost all the global preconditions on which the British system had depended since the 1830s.” 6...

…g economies continue to grow faster than developed economies. With little need to deleverage and repair balance sheets, Asian economies are also well positioned to continue to outpace their Western peers in the years ahead. We have identified companies from a variety of sectors i...

…hort 10Y real rates trades. The former is part of our strategy to be pro-growth and we think it complements our long EM Asia trade being affected differently by USD strength. The hunt for yield is dead, long live the hunt for yield If yields only rise modestly next year then the...

A Wednesday, September 28, 2016 “ Developing nations in Central Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions need to have our news perspectives and voices heard.” Wilson Flores, columnist at the Philippine Star newspaper + €¢ 4} CHINA DAILY COMMERCE Trade initiat...

4 Wednesday, September 28, 2016 CHINA CHINA DAILY» CHINADAILY.COM.CN/NATION Developing nations in Central Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions need to have our news perspectives and voices heard.” Wilson Flores, columnist at the Philippine Star newspaper COMMER...

…that "in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advised the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it." The remark no doubt reflected Sec. Gates's f...

…at gold, which can be used as pendants, key fobs, money clips or—yes, of course—nipple covers. At the Penimax booth, an Asian vendor is selling disposable cock rings, which, he promises, will maintain my erection even after I ejaculate. There are several booths dedicated to booki...

…ut the Brexit vote https://t.co/SMVZETx8fQ #Brexit RT @ethicistforhire: Can't believe it's called Brexit, and not EUthanasia... RT @AMTrump4PRES: I'd like 2 dedicate this tweet 2 former lovely cultures that will only B found between the pages of a book. #Brexit https… New post:...

…is form of sequencing, in which economic development was promoted before a democratic opening, was the path followed by Asian countries like South Korea and Taiwan, which made democratic transitions in the late 1980s only after they had succeeded in turning themselves into indust...

…ely about his remarkable career. After earning a degree in chemical engineering from McGill University, and working in Asia as an engineer for a decade, he went to law school in New Zealand, and then became a barrister in Hong Kong specializing in cases involving the legal statu...

…as the fiscal cliff is negotiated. Within equities, we stay underweight the US, and move most of the overweight into EM Asia. We have moved some of our credit overweight from the US to Europe. � Economics –– The data flows continue to confirm that June/July was likely the bottom...