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...Rain! is the opening story in TIME Global Business?a new, monthly section of TIME Asia. Drawing on our network of reporters around the world (Let it Rain! was reported in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Menlo Park, California), TIME Global Business, which was launched in our U.S. edition in 2001, will introduce you each month to the companies and the people who are reshaping the global economy. In addition to our story on China's rainmakers, this month's section includes a look at Emirates Airlines, the Dubai-based carrier that has grown into the world's fifth most profitable...
...Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir?the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads...
...only ones to get KORUSEC's business. Buckham brought in as a "strategic partner" a Democratic firm called the Harbour Group, which charged KORUSEC $150,456 in 2002 and 2003. Lobbyist Joel Johnson--a former Clinton White House official who has since moved from Harbour to the Glover Park Group and taken the KORUSEC account with him--says he was hired "to recruit Democrats to go on trips." He insists, however, that the excursions were serious endeavors with briefings by Korean officials and a trip to the demilitarized zone. As for elevating Kim's image with the delegations, Johnson insists...
...MELVENY & MYERS, MENLO PARK...
...retreat in Phoenix, Ariz., he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads."What the heck," he told them. "After China, this is nothing." Reckless attitude? Chao would probably call it risk arbitrage. --By Sonja Steptoe/Menlo Park...