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...elephant chased us, along with a sprawling convoy of cars and buses, back up the hill. Craning my neck to keep the behemoth in view for as long as possible, the last thing I saw before we rounded the corner to safety was an archetypal drama of David and Goliath. Like the famous lone protester of Tiananmen facing off a Chinese army tank, there stood one brave lunatic, arm outstretched and brandishing a rock as the elephant lumbered mightily towards him. As far as I know the man survived. But as soon as we got off the mountain, I badly...
...this way India is mimicking--and still trailing--Asia's other Goliath: China. Beijing's cadres embraced market reform much earlier than their Indian counterparts did--back in the late 1970s--and have been much more devoted to liberalization. As a result, China's per-capita income, now about $900, has been growing at least twice as fast as India's for the past 20 years. With incomes rising in China, foreign investors found a more sizable market for their wares there than in India. For example, China has 230 million mobile-phone users, India a measly 18 million...
...this way India is mimicking?and still trailing?Asia's other Goliath: China. Beijing's cadres embraced market reform much earlier than their Indian counterparts did?back in the late 1970s?and have been much more devoted to liberalization. As a result, China's per-capita income, now about $900, has been growing at least twice as fast as India's for the past 20 years. With incomes rising in China, foreign investors found a more sizable market for their wares there than in India. For example, China has 230 million mobile-phone users, India a measly 18 million...
...Western Union has only one truly global competitor, which is stuck playing David to its Goliath. MoneyGram was founded in 1988, back when Western Union was spiraling toward bankruptcy. The industry leader had made a bad bet on its Telex division, which was obliterated by the sudden rise of the fax machine. But MoneyGram was dumped for antitrust reasons in 1996 after its parent company, First Data, picked up the much larger and better known Western Union, which had filed for Chapter...
...Besides, superlatives are Umphang's stock in trade. By day's end, we would be camped at Southeast Asia's biggest waterfall (Thi Lor Su, an aquatic Goliath some 400 m tall and 500 m wide), getting ready to trek through Thailand's most virginal teak forests before clambering onto Asia's largest animal (the elephant) to tour some of the country's most remote hill tribes...