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...Delta Air Lines and JAL's current partner American Airlines, which are looking to expand routes within the Asian market, have recently held talks regarding potential investment in JAL. A deal could be announced within weeks, but whatever it is, it will only be a partial solution. "The problem is that [JAL] is too big to sell and there's no one to buy," Hosoya says...
Dartmouth inaugurated the Ivy League's first Asian-American university president on Tuesday: former Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong...
...will be determined by the Russians and Chinese, who have not been willing to exert much pressure in the past. The President has stopped pursuing the European antimissile defense system, which should please the Russians - and he has reminded the Chinese that we face a common enemy in central Asian Islamic extremism. But that doesn't guarantee either country will be willing to get tougher on the Iranians. (See pictures of Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...Though he is an Asian Food Channel fixture (and its only Filipino chef), San Francisco-born Lim, 31 (pictured), is remarkably down-to-earth, his casual demeanor belying his French culinary training at London's Le Cordon Bleu. As you would expect from a TV personality, he's a supremely engaging host. But what people really come for is the food. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...tables. But the good times came to a sudden end in late 2008 as the credit crunch paralyzed global financial markets. Gaming revenues sank and casinos laid off staff. Sheldon Adelson, chairman of casino operator Las Vegas Sands, was forced to halt his $12 billion plan to build an Asian version of the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of reclaimed land called Cotai due to financing woes. The boomtown went bust...