Word: asia
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...issues involved are not easy to resolve. In most of Asia, factory workers have traditionally put in long hours for low wages and that, in fact, is why American enterprises have moved in. There is no consensus on what a fair wage might be (base pay runs as low as $1.75 a day in Indonesia), nor on the degree to which U.S. firms should challenge their host governments or support their workers in seeking political freedoms and the right to form unions. "Wages are only a small part of it," says a trade unionist in Jakarta. "What's important...
This is not good enough for human-rights advocates in the U.S. Deborah Leipziger, of the Council on Economic Priorities in New York City, rejects the argument often heard in Asia that Americans are trying to impose Western standards in order to make Asian products less competitive. "I don't buy it," she says, "because there are universal standards of human rights." < Child labor should be banned, and there should be an international standard for calculating fair wages, she says. More specifically, Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch/Asia insists American executives ought to protest to the Indonesian government about...
Zhirinovsky: I think we should divide ((the world up)) into spheres of influence. We should not collide against each other in areas like the Balkans or Central Asia. It is better for us to remain separate. For the good of mankind, there should be four centers of power in the world -- the United States, Europe, Russia, and China and Japan...
Zhirinovsky: There would be a North-South axis -- the Latin Americans with America, Africa with the Europeans, the Russians, with their southern neighbors, China with Southeast Asia. We cannot have just one center of power. That's why America is provoking enemies for itself around the world...
...departure of such a distinguished scientist signals a dramatic change: the brain drain that has enriched the West with tens of thousands of Asia's best and brightest minds has begun to flow in the opposite direction. The Yuan T. Lees of tomorrow still flock to elite North American and European universities for advanced degrees, but more and more they are seeking employment in Asia, where opportunities to pursue careers in research are expanding almost as fast as sales of designer clothes and cellular phones...