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...January 2008. The three-day forum will include discussions on making and selling music in a borderless digital marketplace. Channel V's online initiative, the AMP website, has already helped a handful of acts, like Rivermaya in Singapore, make regional headway. It also raises the possibility of a pan-Asian audience for new bands-something that would enable musicians to have remunerative careers closer to home...
...recent studies suggest, however, that certain foods may increase the risk of cancer. Publishing in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers analyzed data from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study and found that postmenopausal Asian women who had adopted more Western-style diets - high in red meat, bread, desserts and candy - had a two times greater risk of breast cancer than peers who stuck with traditional Asian diets consisting of vegetables, soy and fish. A separate study of 50,000 postmenopausal women, published in the current British Journal of Cancer, found that women who ate a quarter...
...retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics...
...long run, and disrupting global trade balances. Access to consumer debt could ease the country's dependence on exports and investments that now power China's 10% annual growth, ultimately making it more sustainable. "Mature economies are driven by consumer spending," says Nigel Lee, president of First Data's Asian operations. "Consumer credit is an important instrument in increasing domestic demand...
...Some corporate deadbeats of a decade ago are back in the market for cash-and investors are happy to stump up, at rock-bottom rates, just as they were before. The risk premium that Asian borrowers have to pay is near historical lows. It's a worrying sign of global exuberance. Ironically, Asia has played a role in stoking dangerous imbalances in the global economy. Its 'dirty-peg' currencies, which ostensibly float but in fact are controlled by central banks, have kept exports higher and imports lower than they would be otherwise. In the case of China, with...