Word: asia
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...spots in middle Africa, Mongolia and the real Siberia (as opposed to the Cyberia Cafe), PCs and their attendant modems are knitting together the global village just as Marshall McLuhan predicted. While no country is as well connected as the U.S., with 32 PCs per 100 citizens, Europe and Asia are coming up fast. Among the reasons are the privatization of industry, which is breaking the stranglehold of government telecommunications monopolies, and the recognition by political leaders of the vital importance of getting up to speed on the worldwide Infobahn (as the Europeans prefer to call...
...stock market quotes. If it works, the plan is to widen it to as many as 1.5 million homes in Montreal and Quebec City. Outside the relatively well-wired confines of North America, however, getting connected can still be a frustrating and costly experience. In Europe and parts of Asia, monopolistic state telephone systems erect a bewildering array of speed limits and tollgates that make traveling the Infobahn a costly and often frustrating experience. High long-distance fees and connection surcharges levied by monopolistic government communications ministries can make the use of the Internet and such services as CompuServe...
Through March 5. "Women and the Arts of Asia." Highlights the role of women in the arts of Asia from, five different perspective...
...appreciates that more than the Vietnamese, who consider the city their cultural and intellectual wellspring. The challenge is to save it from its own creative destruction. In the frenzy to modernize the capital of what Vietnam's leaders hope will be Asia's next economic ``tiger,'' Hanoi is beginning to take on the more disturbing qualities of Bangkok, Taipei or Seoul. Historic shop houses and old temples are being pulled down to make way for chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble...
...have saved the city. With miraculously few scars from the 36,000 tons of U.S. ordnance that fell during the 1972 Christmas bombing, economically backward Vietnam missed the boom that swept the rest of Asia during the 1980s. When the government announced an economic- reform program in 1989, Hanoi stood out as a place with relatively little industry and few cars, clean air and no traffic. Though neglected, architectural gems like the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient and the former Bank of Indochina were resurrectable. ``For anyone interested in architectural questions, Hanoi is where the action is because there...