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...Asia stem from this conglomerate. Here a basic understanding of the industry is essential; Lin obviously didn’t realize that there is a difference between the effects of large, Western brands in East Asia versus the effect of the brands that Project East promoted, which were small, Asian brands...
Perhaps when she made the claim “As it relates to Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia more generally,” Lin led herself astray. She doesn’t notice that Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia are separate entities. At Project East, we showed designers from New York Fashion Week, who had Asian backgrounds. Perhaps Lin thought that these designers’ Asian backgrounds meant that they show in Shanghai, Tokyo, or Seoul and would thus affect consumption in such areas...
...ragging problem is a legacy of the British, who imported the practice to India from elite public schools back home. But while experts say extreme forms of hazing have all but disappeared in Britain, they continue in India and other Asian countries. Like mild hazing in the United States, ragging in its more innocent forms - students forced to address seniors as "sir," answering their questions and doing their menial chores - is defended as a way to create camaraderie and build character. In an essay about his experience at the prestigious St. Stephen's College in Delhi, writer Amitav Ghosh describes...
Artists in Abundance I am very disappointed that Hannah Beech's cover article about "Asia's Happy Artists" featured artists only from China, India and Vietnam, as if Asian art consists of works only from those countries [Nov. 12]. What about the brilliant, hot artists from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore who are enjoying prominence in major auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's? They are just as "politically aware," "socially conscious" and "boldly experimental" and are also "commanding record prices for their work." Manuel Faustino, Makati City, the Philippines...
...have a troubled child, do you say, "Go out of the house, I don't want to talk to you?"' ONG KENG YONG, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, rejecting a U.S. proposal to suspend Burma's membership in the regional group over its human-rights violations...