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...Foreign Business Act that the junta government is now eliminating. The changes aim to stop foreign investors using local nominees to put their firms in a Thai name without giving them commensurate decision-making power. "It's clear these moves are going to discourage new investors," says Peter van Haren, head of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Bangkok. "Our members have come to me and said this is essentially a forced divestiture...
...tenured faculty in the department of landscape architecture, two are professors in practice, Hargreaves and Michael Van Valkenburgh...
Rowe, Hargreaves, Van Valkenburgh, and the current department chair, Niall Kirkwood, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...Consider "Brett" and "Davood," the blokes of David van Royen's domestic portraits-one a home handyman trapped in his glassed veranda, the other half-dressed on his bed, staring out beyond the noose of his window's chain pull, their masculine identities hovering uncertainly in the air. While Van Royen uses simple color printing, as do many of the photographers in the show, the lingering impression is of grayness. Even in the exhibition's most Day-Glo work, the bright-faced trio of teenage girls snacking on fast food in Darren Sylvester's If All We Have Is Each...
It’s not outright sexism that motivates this bias, Van Ummersen says, but simply the tendency of well-meaning board members to choose people with whom they are comfortable—people like themselves...