Already, many major U.S. corporations have seen earnings slashed by the plunge in Asian business.
It also bought Philippines company Fortune Tobacco Co. in February 2010, bolstering its Asian business.
That FedEx will tamp down its Asian business reflects the slow-down in growth that the region faces.
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Missing out on AIA is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Asian business is already big and growing fast.
As for immigration policy, the best way to win Asian business is to lure the young Asian financiers to London.
As Asian business takes to the Internet, English may even lose its place as the unchallenged lingua franca of the web.
Traditional Asian business heavyweight Hong Kong slipped slightly this year, becoming a little less expensive compared to New York City than last year.
With business aviation poised to become an essential part of Asian business growth and prosperity, the potential for business aviation in Asia is enormous.
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Faced with a big fall in Asian business, many airlines switched their jumbos to the Atlantic, where previously they might have used smaller wide-bodies.
One of the more tedious moments of Asian business meetings is listening to a lecture about the superiority of banking practices there versus the fast-and-loose West.
Indeed, they would probably have started thinking about differentiation anyway, even had China remained closed to the outside world, says Usha Haley, an expert on Asian business from the University of Tennessee.
Otherwise, regional harmony, not to mention intra-Asian business, will shrivel, and the resulting tensions among nations would play into the hands of leaders who would point at perceived foreign threats to justify autocracy.
They used articles written about business in the region as a proxy, and found that in the late 1980s, when foreign investors were getting interested, Asian business received only 5% of the coverage of American business.
Siddhartha, to the smaller but still brashly ambitious sorts who fill out many of our other pages--this is an Asian business buffet, both in text and photography. (All the food stories in this issue must be affecting me.) Add to this mix the best of FORBES in the U.S. and hungry readers get their fill.
In partnership with Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) and co-hosted by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) and the Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC), ABACE 2013 will bring together latest aviation products and equipment, sessions for potential and current business airplane users, presentations from top aviation officials in various state governments from the region, and much more.
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By 2000 Murdoch was in charge of News Corp's Asian satellite business, Star TV, where he appeared to find his feet.
Asian American business leaders joined the panel to discuss their personal experiences in the workplace and to offer solutions to overcome professional roadblocks.
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This year, the top prize was shared by Thomas Easton, Asian-business editor for The Economist since 2006, and Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist and author.
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Additionally, Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff recently met with Southeast Asian American small business owners in St.
But if anything, such turmoil is likely to make Western investors turn to stable, pro-business Asian countries.
Asian ways of business and government are under examination, if not eradication.
"There's a real need for this, " says Liu, who previously started and sold a successful Asian spice-mix business.
Asian investors and multinational business people anyplace may find this a useful guide to where the action is in the world's biggest economy.
Mr. KLAUS FRIEDRICH (German Association of Industrial Equipment): We can see it in all volumes that the business of Asian companies - Korea or Japan and specifically in China - increased in the last year in the machinery sector.
Such companies must understand how intrinsically Western business principles, such as employee empowerment, translate to different Asian cultures steeped in distinct traditions and entrenched business practices.
They must have been cheered last week when a closed-door conference for prospective Asian investors carried on with business as usual at Yangon's pricey Strand Hotel.
Though the U.S. is still a top destination for many aspiring business students, Asian schools and other overseas programs are growing in popularity among Asian applicants.
As small business owners, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders know how important it is that we continue to spur growth after a long and brutal recession.
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Asian carriers may gain some business if fliers favor them over American counterparts that fly in Asia, said Peter Harbison, managing director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation in Sydney.
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