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...back by the slow pace of reform, allowing Hong Kong's modern capital market plenty of room to grow. Not only has Hong Kong strengthened its position at the financial heart of Asia, but today it's competing with powerful centers in New York and London. Companies going public via Hong Kong's stock exchange in 2005 raised more money from initial public stock offerings-$21.6 billion?than any other exchange except New York, according to Thomson Financial. Last year, Hong Kong ranked No. 1, beating out New York and London, with $41.1 billion raised...
...weeks later at her stylish home office in Cherry Hill, N.J. If you are a voluntary visitor to Pachter's studio, it means your employer cares enough about you and your future to plunk down more than $3,000 to smooth your rough edges. But if you appear via corporate command to what has been called charm school, you are probably in manners trouble. Sometimes bosses use Pachter to deliver embarrassing news, like the caution to the female executive who was wearing a bra that was hopelessly wrong...
...modern and traditional as effortlessly as they handle their mobile phones. That, in fact, is the way they met: via a cell phone dating service. She liked his "attitude, his way of responding which was very decent." He liked that Ahuja "didn't want to talk nonsense." They hope one day to get their two families together so they can arrange a hybrid of a love marriage and an arranged one by getting the mutual consent of both sets of parents. "Youngsters just want to show their feelings," says Singh. "And if people don't like that then that...
...socialist-era concrete apartment block in the unemployment-stricken Czech city of Ostrava, once a center of mining mocked by other Czechs as a monument to communism. He confesses to a serious drinking habit, and the urge to share embarrassing details from his more-than-ordinary life via a weblog that has become a national sensation. A coffee mug nearby, he types his entries late at night in a hilariously funny Ostrava dialect that in Czech entertainment culture would typically signal provincialism in the way an Appalachian accent might be in the U.S. or a Yorkshire accent in Britain. Just...
...winter break but that didn't stop them from spreading the news on Friday afternoon: Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong had just asked the North Carolina Attorney General's office to remove him from the case against three members of the school's lacrosse team. The information went out via instant messages, phone texts, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. Duke, of course, is not a neutral spectator in the controversy. Several students have gone around wearing wristbands that declare "INNOCENT #6, #13, #45 DUKE LACROSSE 2006" - a reference to the team numbers of the three accused. Almost...