Soon after, WorldSpace launched AsiaStar, which started broadcasting throughout Asia in 2000, although its content has primarily been aimed at India and Indonesia.
Madanjeet Singh created the South Asia Foundation in 2000 as a youth movement to promote sustainable cultural, educational and economic development throughout the region.
Others believe the dot.com era really ended when Asia Global Crossing became in September 2000 the last flotation in a series dating back to America Online in 1992.
My global education began in 2000, while travelling in Asia on assignment for an investment bank.
The last time both countries played together in the Asia Cup was in Bangladesh in May-June 2000.
Of course, Asia-Pacific already had a publicly traded model for such a behemoth in Noble Group--No. 539 on the Global 2000 and home to the 2009 FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year, its executive chairman, Richard Elman.
One of the strongest trends in the 2000 edition of the 1000 ranking: across Asia, companies are scrambling to boost efficiency, profitability and innovation, especially in Japan.
The WHO warns that crisis looms large in Asia, home to the majority of the world's TB cases, and predicts that the incidence of TB attributable to HIV in Asia will rise from 2% in 1900 to 14% by 2000.
That entailed the cascading collapses of assorted currencies and developing economies, from Mexico (1994) to Southeast Asia, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and Turkey (1997-2000).
Paul Martin Smithers, 59, skipped bail in 2000 and it took almost a decade to track him down to south east Asia.
Not even the cheeriest economists expect East Asia's rebound this year and next to be as brisk as in 1999 and 2000.
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