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...business confidence. Japan recently registered a spike in personal spending and business investment; the country may finish 2003 with 2% GDP growth, not roaring but better than previous expectations. Barring disasters such as a major recurrence of SARS, booming China expects 9% growth next year, which will help spur demand for goods made elsewhere in Asia. Not every region is out of the woods; Hong Kong, for example, still faces record high unemployment and a big deficit, and deflation still lurks in Japan. But "we do have a fundamental recovery," says Andy Xie, economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong...
...asylum from a war-crimes indictment. Jacques Paul Klein, the top U.N. envoy in Liberia, has urged Taylor to accept the offer. "Go while the getting is good," Klein says. Even Taylor's militia and congressmen from his own party say he should leave, arguing that his presence would spur on the rebels and risk his safety. His critics worry instead about what Taylor might do if he stays...
...little is happening and that, evidently, the U.S. is not serious about its so-called commitment to reconstruct Afghanistan," says NYU's Professor Rubin. A recent Council on Foreign Relations and Asia Society report, Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?, warns, "Failure to stem deteriorating security conditions and to spur economic reconstruction could lead to a reversion to warlord-dominated anarchy and mark a major defeat for the U.S. war on terrorism...
...Gemayel remained optimistic of a positive American influence in the region, as “the U.S. enjoys a real opportunity to spur a new Middle East...
...every opportunity to do so. At a private screening of the Disney animated movie Finding Nemo the night before the protest, Wong was asked to talk about his Cantonese voice-over for Bruce the shark. Instead he shouted, "March tomorrow!" Wong seems to feel it's his duty to spur the public. As he says matter of factly: "I'm an icon of free speech in Hong Kong...