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...media is suddenly one of the most fashionable. The world's marketers spent $22 billion last year on out-of-home campaigns, as billboard advertising is called. That's an 8% increase from the year before in both the U.S. and Britain, while growth in places like China and Thailand is in double digits - a pace that makes outdoor the second fastest-growing ad medium after the Internet. And we're not talking just your standard roadside eat at joe's billboard. Today's outdoor ads are everywhere - on waste cans, taxis, bus shelters, phone kiosks, even gasoline nozzles. Intrusive...
...April 23. As rumors swirled of his likely successors, Thaksin flew Tuesday afternoon to meet revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej at his seaside palace before making his brief farewell address. In it, he referred to the auspicious 60th anniversary of the king?s coronation, an event that will dominate Thailand?s official calendar in June. Amid all the political jockeying, this deadline has always loomed large. Now it looks like a new politician will be leading the celebrations...
...Seoul, the attempt by U.S. corporate raider Carl Icahn to get a seat on the board of tobacco company KT&G has, says Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University's business school, "reignited anti-foreign-investor sentiment." The sale of a controlling interest in Shin Corp., owner of Thailand's leading telecommunications company, to Temasek Holdings of Singapore has been one of the catalysts for the Bangkok demonstrations against Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family controlled Shin Corp. In France, an effort by the Italian gas company Enel to acquire Groupe Suez appears to have been thwarted...
...events that stress the rebuilding of national economic walls, he says, "are tiny compared to the overall trends in investment, trade, tourism or other forms of interchange." Sometimes, to be sure, complaints about trade and foreign ownership mask other issues. Thais may have marched on the Singapore embassy chanting "Thailand's not for sale!" but it was Thaksin, and his windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., that they had in their sights. "If [Singapore] took over a glass factory," says Kasit Piromya, a former Thai ambassador to the U.S., "it wouldn't be a problem. But this...
...coerced interrogation and psychological torture that rendered many political prisoners permanently disabled. “There is no rule of law, no separation of power [in Burma],” said Bo Kyi. “Political persecution is the state policy.” Bo Kyi moved to Thailand after his release from prison in 1998 and founded the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, an organization that provides humanitarian support to political prisoners and documents torture in Burma’s prisons. “We want students from Harvard and other American universities to know that...