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...Cheah built his business helping foreigners invest in Chinese companies. But now, he says, that script has been flipped: China wants help investing abroad. When Value Partners went public in November, Chinese insurance giant Ping An snapped up 38% of its offered shares, hoping to tap Value Partners' expertise. "The thing about China is it has taken them a long time to shift from what I call a starvation psychology," Cheah says. "They think they're a poor economy, so they should attract money from abroad. Now they're realizing they should be trying to export capital...
We’ve all heard of Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, but less recognizable are names like Jen Kao, Mary Ping and Thuy. “Project East,” a fashion show organized by Timothy M. Parent ’09 and Kristin S. Kim ’09, will showcase Asian designers and aims to raise awareness of the thriving Asian fashion design scene.The idea for “Project East,” which hits the runway tomorrow, was formulated in the summer of 2006 while Parent and Kim were in Korea...
Being a vegetarian at Harvard is hard. You can’t eat half the entrees in the dining hall and Felipe’s is sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...
...cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games...
...government claims the program has been hugely successful, and security officials from other Arab countries have visited to see if the model might work for them. In the presence of guards, detainees say they want to resume normal lives, but perhaps a more telling sign is a game of Ping-Pong between a detainee and an American reporter. When the visitor makes a particularly impressive play, showing his powerful forehand, cheers from onlookers fill the evening...