Word: asia
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Moganshan Road calls itself the center of modern art in Shanghai. I arrived prepared to bear witness to the fruit of the Chinese art boom, the boom that The Asia Times calls an “artistic renaissance,” not unlike the “emergence of Western Modernism more than 100 years ago.” A tough act to follow indeed, especially if your country was closed off from the rest of the world for much of that time...
Japan, once the world's biggest donor nation, is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency that will dispense billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, most of it bound for Africa and Asia - regions where China is rapidly increasing its clout as an aid donor and commercial partner...
...event featured a panel of three China experts: Kennedy School professor Anthony J. Saich, MIT professor Yasheng Huang ’85, and William H. Overholt ’68, the former director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy...
Drawing on more than 18 years of experience in Asia and at research institutes in the United States, Overholt said he wanted to “debunk some myths that are popular in this country” about America’s relation to China...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...