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...long ago left his horse-and-buggy home for Seoul, where he holds the reins of one of Asia's hottest Internet start-ups. Last October, he and partners Hans Tung of Taiwan and Chih Cheung of New York launched Helloasia.com an e-commerce and community portal with $20 million of venture capital. Helloasia.com is a kind of frequent-flyer program for Asia's Net surfers. The more you spend at its e-commerce site on items like CDs, travel tickets and computers, the more points you receive toward free gifts. The idea is to promote "stickiness," the ability...
...Read Su Tung-po poem New Year's Eve: Spending the Night Outside Chang-chou City (1073). "No one here speaks my dialect: I long for home... I thank the flickering torch that doesn't refuse/ to keep me company on a lonely boat through the night...
...former electrician and soldier who lost faith in China's communism based on Mao Tse-tung's radical policies. Wang, 31, was a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China and participant in the protests at Tiananmen Square. Before they were forced into exile, both men spent many years in jail for criticizing the communist regime...
...findings have applications beyond tumor detection in mice. Tung said that the knowledge could potentially be used for tumor characterization, to classify the tumors and determine the tumors' stages, since tumors behave differently at the different stages of their development...
...regular tumor detection right now there is a lot of misdiagnosis because you can't diagnose the early stage of the tumor growth," said Tung. "We've developed contrast agents so hopefully we can detect the signal from the tumor, and detect the tumor, earlier...