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...Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)—a student-led initiative at the College concerned with issues in the Asia-Pacific region—announced this week that it will hold two conferences this summer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, focusing on the “challenges and opportunities” facing Asia today...
...Since Telenor took control of Malaysian operator DiGi in 2001, for example, that business has expanded "from a small, niche player to one of the driving forces in the market," says Espen Torgersen, telecoms analyst at Carnegie, a Nordic investment bank. Now the third largest cell-phone operator in Malaysia, DiGi's operating profits grew by a third last year to $454 million; subscriber numbers rose by a fifth to 6.4 million...
...price inquiries being chronicled by Google are not coming from Western computers, but from the epicenter of the price hike’s impact. The top-ranked countries by volume of searches are the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Thailand. In the West, people are preoccupied with the “credit crunch,” “Tibet,” “human rights” and the “Olympics boycott?...
...plant in North Carolina, provides a good comparison. Brooks sells more than 3.5 million shirts a year but makes only about 250,000 at its factory, which is reserved for higher-end wares such as made to order and the Golden Fleece brand. Most of the others come from Malaysia. "Part of it is the prestige of having shirts handcrafted in our own factory," says Dixon. "It's a marketing initiative." The tie factory, though, offers no such appeal. Even most apparel insiders don't know that all 1.7 million Brooks ties produced annually are made in New York...
...investment capital, this alarming phenomenon is replicating itself around the world. Indonesia has bulldozed and burned so much wilderness to grow palm oil trees for biodiesel that its ranking among the world's top carbon emitters has surged from 21st to third according to a report by Wetlands International. Malaysia is converting forests into palm oil farms so rapidly that it's running out of uncultivated land. But most of the damage created by biofuels will be less direct and less obvious. In Brazil, for instance, only a tiny portion of the Amazon is being torn down to grow...