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Indeed, while Himalayan ice will almost certainly still be here in 2035, it is definitely melting - and that will have a serious impact on the billions of people in Asia who depend at least partially on Himalayan meltwater. Yao Tandong, head of China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, has done on-the-ground research on the Chinese side of the Himalayas - the world's biggest collection of ice outside the two poles - and reported last year that by the end of the century, as much as 70% of the mountain range's glaciers could disappear. And far from providing...
Over 400 Business School students participated in the nine faculty-led Immersion Experience Programs (IXPs) in locations such as China, Peru, India, and Rwanda...
Earlier this month, someone in China hacked into the Google account of a Stanford student named Tenzin Seldon, a known Tibetan activist. Whether or not Google decides to stay in China, the fact that these hackings have targeted people like Seldon—a student at an American university—has generated some unease in Washington, where the Obama administration has reiterated its concerns about international computer security and the possibility of further attacks on larger corporations...
...concept for the two-year-old retreat came to South African and Shanghai expat Grant Horsfield who, while on vacation in Vietnam, realized the need for a rustic escape from life and work in China's financial capital. Horsfield teamed up with Briton Gabriela Lo, who shortly after stumbled upon a decaying Moganshan village (the youngest resident was 61 years old). "Once I found the village," Lo says, "I thought, This is it." After initial skepticism from the locals, Naked leased six of the village's 18 houses and now employs nine of its 14 residents...
...boss's dislike for Cobos more bluntly two days later: "Cobos cannot be trusted with the management of public affairs. The Vice President has become Cobos Iscariot." The President's supporters are concerned Argentina's veep might make use of the President's absence during an upcoming trip to China to call a special session of Congress and reject a recent executive decree ordering the seizure of central bank reserves to pay off part of Argentina's voluminous foreign debt. "Cobos has clearly become the leader of the opposition and has been making use of the vice presidency to block...