Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...handful of galleries in town that spurns faux-traditional art adorned with the usual lotus blossoms and other Buddhist motifs, Ji-Qoo, tel: (66) 5389 4250, is run by husband-and-wife team Chatchawan and Satoru Nilsakul. They prefer to showcase the work of emerging, Chiang Mai-based artists, and they've got the inside track on whose work to buy: Chatchawan is an artist himself and teaches at Chiang Mai University...
...stock offering was vastly oversubscribed. No wonder: funding green startups has become as popular in Silicon Valley as luxury SUVs, so New Resource has inside investors like Bob Hambrecht, managing director of WR Hambrecht & Co.; Daniel Yohannes, U.S. Bank's former vice chairman; and the founders of Sybase and Lotus Development...
...It’s a big, big worldwide thing,” said Doug Heinsman, director of Lotus Strategy for IBM’s Software Group and the contest sponsorship executive...
...tent? Are we going camping?” And we are entering a jungle of sorts. Dramatic blue, pink, and white lights illuminate the massive ceiling/canopy. Fashion Week attendees replenish not at a canteen but at the Moët & Chandon champagne deck and a Lotus-sponsored complimentary bar. Heading to our first of five runway shows, we muscle our way to the front on the line, overpowered by the sudden cloud of arrogance and impatience from the other reporters and fashionistas.After standing in line for 30 minutes, we finally make it inside the tent. Our first show...
...region is soaring. In the northern reaches of Thailand and Laos, you can find whole towns where Mandarin has become the common language and the yuan the local currency. In Chiang Saen, signs in Chinese read CALL CHINA FOR ONLY 12 BAHT A MINUTE. A sign outside the Glory Lotus hotel advertises CLEAN, CHEAP ROOMs in Chinese. It is not aid from the U.S. but trade with China--carried on new highways being built from Kunming in Yunnan province to Hanoi, Mandalay and Bangkok, or along a Mekong River whose channels are full of Chinese goods--that is transforming much...