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For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.
Does this mean that Hong Kong is completely safe now as a technology center for Asia and for China?
For Hong Kong to be the financial center of Asia's resumed boom, their efforts for market integrity must succeed.
That reality alone ensures that ASEAN will be at the center of Asia's affairs for a long time to come.
Its threat to build a private airport managed to put some pepper on the tail of policymakers, says Peter Harbison, of the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation in Sydney.
"I think most Chinese do feel that things are going pretty well in China, economically at least to date, " said Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.
Obama is carving out new patterns for U.S. engagement in Asia, says Ernest Bower, a senior adviser and chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.
Now, instead of routing all footwear and apparel that come in from factories in Southeast Asia through a distribution center in Memphis, Nike can have them sent directly to specific stores or the consumers who order them online.
Peter Harbison, executive chairman of the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) also said further consolidation was likely, as the industry was "coming to the end of an evolutionary cycle" in which air travel had been dominated by national carriers subsidized by governments.
" Adds Sydney-based Peter Harbison, who heads the regional airline consultancy Center for Asia-Pacific Aviation: "Partly because we all quickly forget accidents and partly because people need to fly, the impact on the bottom line is fairly limited, unless the airline has a history of problems.
Mr. Vatikiotis is the Asia regional director of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, which has supported dialogue in the Philippines and Thailand.
The additional weight of India's voice to this group, particularly if raised through Asian venues such as the Bali Democracy Forum, would undoubtedly move the center of gravity within Asia.
Over the coming decades, will Asia replace the United States as the center of the pharmaceutical world?
They are both free ports with ambitions to become Asia's premier business and finance center after Japan.
Over the decades, our Alliance has steadily developed into a comprehensive partnership that contributes to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, an important center for global economic growth, and beyond.
When it comes to all things shiny, parts of Asia and the Middle East are at the center of the boom.
Before joining the Administration in 2009, Ambassador Mitchell served as Senior Fellow and Director for Asia in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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However, it claims to be witnessing softness in demand (from US, Europe as well as Asia), on account of reduced data center and enterprise spending as well as lower service provider capital expenditures.
Katherine Tsiang, associate director of the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, spent many years travelling around the world to locate the missing sculptures and collect 3D digital images - technology that was not available when she started the project.
The new facility is its largest center for cookie research and development in Asia, and its output will allow Kraft to create new product platforms tailored to suit local tastes.
"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
So we probably need to shift our center of gravity from Sydney to somewhere in Asia.
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The dispute took center stage earlier this month when defense officials from 28 Asia-Pacific nations gathered at the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore.
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Nightmares loomed over Asia in the past year and the men and woman at the center of those fears are the Newsmakers of 1995.
The move will scale back its presence in Asia and India, says the New York Times, and will center its operations in Chicago, Sunnyvale and Beijing.
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Fitting then that President Obama will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting at the East-West Center in November.
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Morrison, president of the East-West Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve relations between the U.S. and Asia by supporting study, research and dialogue.
"Asia is just as it is here, " Al Ansari says from his office at the Dubai International Financial Center, home to the city's ever ripening stock exchange.
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