Word: southeasterly
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...text message on my cell phone came just as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave for Southeast Asia after more than six years in China, I was feeling nostalgic. China is not an easy place to be a journalist - our phones are often tapped, our sources sometimes harassed - but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. The lives of people in China, I reflected, really are getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that...
...venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia: "The [Singapore] government is the smartest on earth in terms of promoting the place as a center for private banking...
...consolidation may be the inevitable endgame. Only the biggest banks will be able to satisfy the growing salary demands of private bankers, so middle-tier players may gradually be squeezed out. "The big will only get bigger," says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia. "As a middle player, it's not easy to make money because [staffing] costs have risen...
...list of places I was supposed to be from was--to my great surprise --sub-Saharan Africa. What's more, No. 1 on the list of the top 10 regional populations with which I was most likely to share a piece of genetic code was Belorussia, followed closely by southeast Poland and Mozambique...
Born in Vancouver, Harwood used to be a model Christian, studying the Bible, attending church and taking religion classes at school. "But I had certain reservations," he says, "certain question marks in my mind--some theological, some societal--that I wanted to reconcile." He went to Southeast Asia to find himself and explored Islam there. At 25 he settled in London, where friends helped him learn more about the faith. A year later, he converted and soon joined Hizb ut-Tahrir, a political party known for its radical views that is banned in many Muslim countries. Harwood...