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...Person of the Year for his pioneering work on the drug therapies that have largely quelled the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and Europe. Now Ho is confronting the AIDS virus in its most populous stronghold. Up to 1 million Chinese are HIV positive, and that number could easily grow to 10 million by 2010, according to the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS. If current trends continue for another decade or so, China could overtake Africa, where 29 million people have been infected with the virus...
...moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed to crave novelty but really want assurance. That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast-food franchise...
...only 6% of all Malaysians have ever set foot on a plane; in Indonesia, a mere 1% of its 238 million people has. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers. As incomes rise steadily around Asia, industry analysts expect air travel to grow more than 5% a year across the region over the next two decades, with growth of more than 8% in China...
...fewer than seven low-cost operators. Tiny Singapore will be home to three: Valuair, Tiger Airways and an entry in which Australia's Qantas Airways is a major investor. Backed by powerhouse Singapore Airlines, Tiger plans to launch late this year on at least six routes. "We'll grow as quickly as we can and fly wherever we can," vows Stephen Johnson of Phoenix-based Indigo Partners, an investment company that owns 24% of Tiger. But for all these grandiose dreams, executives believe that not all of the budget carriers can survive. "There is going to have...
government agencies would submit requests for increased funding, which would then become the focus of a tough debate inside the government and in parliament. Almost inevitably, the budget would grow from its initial projections, and no ministry or department had an incentive to reduce spending. Under the new procedure, the government and parliament set a ceiling for total spending. They allocate a portion of that total to ministries and agencies who then decide how it should be spent. So if there's a new project that needs financing, the funds have to be taken from elsewhere. The Finance Ministry gives...