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...After graduating from Harvard with a master’s degree in East Asian Studies in 1985, Bogert bought a one-way ticket to China. She quickly found a job with The Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau as what she calls the “eyes and ears” of the correspondents. Eventually, she moved on to Newsweek, first as a freelance stringer and then as a staff reporter...
...world for those who are still sitting on mountainous profits amassed during Britain's years of plenty. But for more recent buyers, now stuck with rising interest payments on ever less valuable houses, there is mounting fear - and a belated realization that property is not a one-way bet, after all. "It's always good to remind people that investing in long-term, expensive assets is a risky business," says Michael Ball, professor of urban and property economics at the University of Reading Business School. The current wobble has "brought a good dose of realism to the market...
While reading "You are not my friend" I nodded in agreement, suddenly feeling like Stein and I were having a dialogue instead of one-way conversation. I too have blindly signed up with numerous social networks, resulting in an inbox blizzard of far-out birthday reminders and cyperbased karate kicks from friends of my friends. It's time to wake up and realize that you can't make real friends online. One can argue that services like Zyb and Twitter let you do just that, since most of our real friends and family are stored on our mobile phones...
...luring Asians away from rickety buses, inefficient trains and traffic-choked highways. Laykha Boonlerd, 26, a bank employee in Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26, she took wing in July for the first time. "I will travel much more with AirAsia," she says. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers like Boonlerd...
...rivalry among no-frills flyers is already getting brutal. When Tiger offered a 59 one-way ticket to Bangkok from Singapore on September flights, AirAsia countered with a 29 fare. Fernandes advertised the promotion with his usual flair. Ads showing two beautiful flight attendants draped over a subdued tiger boasted, "AirAsia tames even the wildest tiger." Udom Tantiprasongchai, chief executive of Orient Thai Airlines, says fierce competition from AirAsia and flag carrier Thai Airways forced him to slash the fare on his One-Two-Go budget service from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to less than $25, about 30% lower than...