Asia does not even have a regional forum for the development of capital markets, though Andrew Sheng, chairman of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission and an acute observer of the region's shortcomings, proposes an Asian Financial Institute to get the discussion going.
On July 24 to 27, WHIAAPI Advisor Miya Saika Chen will participate in the Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence Summit in San Francisco, CA. The summit will engage advocates and organizations serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders to address violence against women.
In the evening, the President will deliver the keynote address at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) 18th Annual Gala Dinner in Washington, DC.
On May 3 and 4, Commission Chair, Daphne Kwok will serve as a panelist at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Leadership Symposium , and AAPI Commissioners and WHIAAPI staff will attend APAICS Gala Awards Dinner ( www.apaics.org).
WHITEHOUSE: WHIAAPI Weekly Highlights: AAPI Heritage Month Edition
Following in the footsteps of a groundbreaking and widely-cited 2007 UC-Irvine study, which disaggregated the components of a Chinese-assembled Apple iPod and assigned its constituent value to the companies and countries responsible for their production, two researchers at the Asian Development Bank Institute applied a similar analysis to the Apple iPhone.
Presidential elections in November could also play a role, says Robert Rountree, chief East Asian strategist at Nomura Research Institute in Hong Kong.
"Mr. Najib's win wasn't the result the urban middle classes were expecting, " said James Chin, a visiting fellow at the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
"They were close to getting a two-thirds majority, and that will mean a stable and secure government, " said James Chin, a Malaysian political science professor and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
"What remains to be seen is whether Lewis is up to exerting influence in the alien administrative context of Singapore and NUS, " said Michael Montesano, a research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and a Yale alumnus.
According to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California, Asian women born in the United States outstrip all their sisters in terms of earning power.
Denis Hew, of Singapore's Institute of South-East Asian Studies, blames the low uptake on several factors.
"Chinese Strategic, Economic and Social View of Vietnam", edited by Gu Xiaosong and Sheng Lijun, Institute for South-East Asian Studies, Singapore, 2005.
David Koh, a Vietnam expert at Singapore's Institute for South-East Asian studies, says some degree of political liberalisation is being considered, though perhaps not as much as the West would like.
Analysts at the Milken Institute warn that a "pessimistic" projection of the current Asian contraction would leave the San Jose technology region dividing up a 3% smaller economic pie by the year 2000.
At the Fashion Institute of Technology last fall the 399 Korean enrollees constituted 74% of the resident Asian contingent, up from 61% two years before.
应用推荐