"Yui has a look that is very different from any other Asian model, " says a BBC fashion editor.

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True, there was Godfrey Gao, the first ever-Asian model to land a Louis Vuitton campaign and Philip Huang is ubiquitous on the runways.

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Where is the Asian male model who will set a new masculine ideal?

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He is seen as a strong Asian role model within the sport.

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The Asian crisis of the late 1990s shattered elements of the Asian growth model, which had relied on size for its own sake, and put the money generated by rising productivity into the hands of consumers.

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Earlier this year, the Victoria and Albert Museum staged an exhibition entitled Maharajah: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, and the opening tableau featured a full-sized model of an Asian elephant, magnificently bejewelled, ornamented and caparisoned, and surmounted by a gorgeous, glittering, golden howdah.

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For example, significant cooling and strong dynamical effects after the Laki event and other high-latitude eruptions are believed to have caused decreased flow of the Nile River in Egypt and weakened African and Asian monsoons based on climate model simulations, with potentially very significant impacts on food and water supplies.

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But now the Asian markets are moving toward the Western model of continuous trading, and shortening their lunch breaks.

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In the traditional mobile model, companies like Asian Paints in India are already gaining newfound business capabilities by implementing mobile platforms that allow sales personnel to connect, manage and analyze customer requirements in real time.

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But the force of YouTube and digital downloads is dismantling the old business model for music companies, and Asian artists like Psy are benefiting, analysts say.

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When this model creaked and crashed, the Asian crisis was about solving the mismatch of low return on investments, the banks' useless loans and savers' wealth.

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What they saw in him was a leader who would embrace the east Asian-in other words, Japanese-economic model.

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Education advocates are not only fighting for equal resources for students, but are also up against the Model Minority Myth, which claims that Asian American students achieve above and beyond the general population.

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First and foremost, they say "model minority" pressure -- the pressure some Asian-American families put on children to be high achievers at school and professionally -- helps explain the problem.

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The group's model is the Jewish American community, half the size of the Asian American population, but wielding considerable influence on U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

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Let me be clear: I would never say that Asian authoritarianism (benign in Singapore, less benign in China) is a superior model to Western democracy.

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"In my study, the model minority pressure is a huge factor, " says Noh, who studied 41 Asian-American women who'd attempted or contemplated suicide.

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