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...Percentage of young South Asian Britons in a recent poll who say they condone honor killings-the murder of women accused by their families of adultery or other offenses 13 Average number of honor killings in Britain each year...
...behind?means he has been able to run a cautious, purposefully vague campaign, releasing a policy platform that runs to just four pages. "Right now he has the ability to be all things to all people," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "But that will narrow over time." What's certain is that Abe's agenda will be as long as his track record is short: repairing relations with Japan's Asian neighbors, continuing Koizumi's uneven economic reforms, fending off a resurgent political opposition. To succeed...
Everyone knows that the Japanese are the kings of karaoke: they invented it, continue to improve sound-quality technology (if not the human voice part) and introduced karaoke boxes - private singing rooms for small groups. And anyone in London can now indulge in this latest twist on the popular Asian pastime, thanks to lastminute.com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox. Her brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled...
...some respects, Asian philanthropists have to work outside the system. They often get little government encouragement. Significant tax incentives for philanthropy don't exist in the region, and in some countries the rich who do give are as likely to be looked upon with suspicion as gratitude. The relationship is especially fraught in China, where even before the communist era, private giving had to be done in conjunction with the authorities. "Those who acted outside the state, as the Rockefellers did [in the U.S.], could have been seen as potentially dangerous, undermining the power of the government," says Vivienne Shue...
...called T2 offer. Australians were then still relatively new to direct share ownership, once the preserve of the wealthy. The stock market was buoyant, especially the technology and telecommunication sectors. If there was any qualm about the wider economy ("a miracle economy" after sailing through the Asian financial crisis), it was that Australia's was an "old" economy. Too reliant on commodity exports, many pundits said, Australia was being left behind as the rest of the world took advantage of the information revolution...