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...Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. "Artists who could barely afford anything a few years ago can now drive luxury cars." But the rapid cash inflow has put commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling French architecture. "Art students know they can make a good living painting these themes," says Gang of Five painter Luong. "It's difficult to convince them to be adventurous...
...Capital, an Australian firm with more than $2 billion in assets, was forced in August to liquidate its Basis Yield Alpha Fund, which had previously been one of Australia's best-rated hedge funds. Numerous quant funds, which use computerized analysis to make investment decisions, posted big losses as stock markets reeled from the subprime mess...
...high-level visits reflect India's new importance. Its economy is now a trillion-dollar heavyweight growing at 9% a year. On Oct. 29, its main stock index went through 20,000 for the first time, boosted by $18 billion in foreign funds this year and up almost 40% since January. Investors from around the world want a piece of the action...
...operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
...Clare added that while hen harriers don't generally breed in Norfolk, "this is a bird that is obviously very rare in England. We do not need them being shot." They are unusually reviled here, Clare said, because they eat grouse and other game birds, depleting the stock available for hunting. He blamed "systemic" illegal killing of the birds for their dwindling numbers, noting that England's habitat could support ten times as many hen harriers than currently exist...