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Look out, Bollywood. There’s a new player in the South Asian media market—the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The Harvard-owned management journal is launching its 11th international edition in Mumbai, home to the Hindi-language film industry. Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), the review’s not-for-profit parent company, announced last week that it would team with the India Today Group, a media conglomerate, on the South Asian venture. The South Asian monthly will contain close to the same content as the U.S. edition but will run regional advertising, according...
...previous report that would have replaced the Core with a system of distribution requirements was released this past January, but it met an icy reception. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Peter K. Bol told The Crimson, “I think that people are beginning to realize that we’re so close to embarrassing ourselves...
...single meal if I lived nearby. (The answer, 13 times: “Yes, in the room next to yours.”) She seemed beyond conversation: ailing, 80, a member of old uppercrust Argentine high society. She could not have been more unlike my 20-year-old, Asian-American, middle-class self. This woman hobnobbed with European royalty and dined with Pavarotti in her day; I grew up pretending to be royalty (Cinderella) and dining on Publix chicken nuggets...
...Thailand's 18th coup d'?tat since 1932, bloodless for a change, and its leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was at pains to present it as the kindest, cuddliest one yet?a "soft coup," it's being called. While smiling Thais handed flowers to soldiers, their Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese...
...That soldiers now run Thailand?and are powerful political players in Indonesia and the Philippines?doesn't prove (as Burma's generals might gloat) that democracy is dead, but that many Asian democracies are immature and fragile, with political systems incapable of guaranteeing smooth and legitimate transfers of power. Even if General Sonthi keeps his promise and returns power to civilian hands, the damage is done. Neither the dictatorial style of Thaksin's rule, nor the manner of his departure, are worth celebration. Sukma believes the Thai coup will embolden "antidemocratic forces" across the region. "They are all laughing...