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...small to medium-size U.S. companies that want to get into Asia, joint ventures with comparable local firms are the way to go, say many experts. "There are really a lot of bargains available," says David Emery, Dun & Bradstreet's managing director for Southeast Asia. He cites one example of a Swiss company that bought a large share of a major Thai Internet provider at roughly half what it would have had to pay only a little earlier...
...operation until a permanent board of 19 members is elected. Wilson is one of four Americans named to the board; the others are Esther Dyson '72, author and chair of EDventure Holdings, George H. Conrades, president of GTE Internetworking and Frank Fitzsimmons, senior vice president for global marketing at Dun & Bradstreet Corp...
...symphony? Is it world music? Call Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 (Heaven Earth Mankind) whatever you like, but be prepared to reckon with it. Composed to commemorate the reunification of Hong Kong with China, this seductively savory multicultural stew is shaping up as the classical-music event of the summer. The 72-minute work was telecast worldwide July 1 from the handover ceremonies in Hong Kong, and the first recording, conducted by Tan and featuring Yo-Yo Ma as cello soloist, was rushed into print by Sony the following week, debuting in the No. 5 slot on the Billboard classical...
...things considered, Tan Dun doesn't have much to complain about these days. The only thing that seems to exasperate him is when pigeonhole-happy journalists, mistaking him for yet another purveyor of souvenir-shop local color, claim that his music "brings East and West together." Nothing doing, Tan replies. "No East anymore, no West anymore. My purpose is to be flexible and freely flying around among all kinds of experience. Not to be driven by the wave of culture--fashion, trends, isms, schools--but to create my own unity...
...Source: Dun & Bradstreet...