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...Such conspicuous revelry has turned India's wedding-planning industry into a $10 billion market and has stoked a consumer boom that coincides with the November-February marriage season. Commodity analysts say Indian demand for gold wedding jewelry helped lift the metal's price to a recent 25-year high. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai...
Still, the initial reaction remained muted. Two weeks after the appearance of the cartoons, Muslim leaders organized a mostly peaceful demonstration of 3,500 people in Copenhagen, demanding that the paper issue an apology for the drawings. The paper rebuffed the demand. But the tempest might have remained a largely local dispute had Prime Minister Rasmussen not compounded the editors' intransigence by refusing to meet with the ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries to discuss the cartoon flap. "This was a major mistake," says Denmark-based Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism. "I have never in my long...
...THAKSIN UNDER FIRE? When the Prime Minister first took office in 2001, Thailand was still struggling to overcome the Asian financial crisis. Thaksin boosted domestic demand with cheap loans and government handouts. By 2003, Thailand was leading the pack of Southeast Asian tigers. The same year, Thaksin declared war on Thailand's drug trade, cracking down on suppliers and small-time dealers. Over 2,500 of them died-killed, said government officials, by other criminals. (Human-rights groups claimed the killings were carried out by Thai security forces.) The campaign was welcomed by ordinary Thais fed up with the prevalence...
...Nguyen's home last Thursday, and the two air marshals "had agreed to use their official positions as air marshals to bypass security at Bush Intercontinental Airport and smuggle the cocaine aboard a flight bound for Las Vegas." First assistant US Attorney Don DeGabrielle said, "We expect and demand that our law enforcement officials will themselves abide by the laws that they are sworn to uphold. The abuse of the badge will not be tolerated." The two men are not yet required to enter pleas, and their attorneys could not be reached for comment...
...CEIBS) in Shanghai, and Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, will take a group of CEOs to three continents—while teaching them topics such as market strategy and business-government relations. The concept for this program followed a classic model of supply meets demand, basing itself on what CEOs themselves wanted. According to a survey of participants in previous CEIBS programs, many Chinese CEOs “wanted to learn about global competition and global markets—how to go to European markets, and how to go to US markets...