Many of the players made the trip to Shanghai in May this year for the BMW Asian Open won by Miguel Angel Jimenez at Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club.
Faced with pressures to recast Asian ways and open up more to foreign inroads, how can the region safeguard its freedom and identity?
Pessina, in particular, sees China and other Asian markets increasingly open to the idea of partnering with a larger player like Alliance Boots and Walgreen.
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The reaction of Asian markets when they open for trading Monday will indicate whether this week's slide is a limited event or the beginning of a broader contagion, says Bank of New York's Woolfolk.
Schwartzel, the Joburg champion in 2010 and 2011, is looking for his third successive title after December victories at the Asian Tour's Thailand Open and the co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship held in Malalane near Kruger National Park.
It's a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports -- and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products.
Less open than many other Asian economies, India was less exposed to the global downturn.
But whether the centa-millionaires open their wallets or not, Asian economies are confronting some tough fundamentals.
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The probability is high that Cyprus gold will not be dumped on the open market, but bought by Asian central banks.
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By listing in New York, Shapiro reckons, Asian companies are demonstrating a new willingness to open their operations to outside scrutiny.
The company will also open a second outlet of its Asian-cuisine venture, ShopHouse Kitchen, in Los Angeles, in the first half of 2013 itself.
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Singapore and Hong Kong have benefited from the booming Asian economy, which has led many multinationals to open offices in the two financial centres.
But to keep its top spot as best Asian city for innovation, Singapore needs to stay open to new ideas, new cultures, and new entrants, adds Solidiance.
In fact, there were growing fears at the World Bank-IMF sessions that speculation-hit Southeast Asian nations may pull back from moves to further open their financial-services markets, part of an initiative to conclude by Dec. 12 a new World Trade Organization deal to liberalize the global industry.
Given its size and other huge differences with the almost more open, middling size economies hit by the Asian crisis, China may find other ways of dealing with its similar problems.
Four months earlier, she had paved new ground as the first Asian player to reach a major final: the Australian Open, where she lost in three sets to Belgium's Kim Clijsters.
They are able to open up vast new markets in the Indian and Asian continent, as anyone who has been in those airports in the middle of the night can see.
The island is a melting pot of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other Asian cultures that are expressed deliciously in the foods sold at the open-air hawker centres.
Though Asian Americans make up only 6% of the state's registered voters, they could be a deciding factor in a close race with low turnout--if they vote as they did in June's open primary, when Fong took 3 out of 4 Asian voters, many of them "crossover" Democrats motivated more by ethnic pride than ideology.
The date of the elections will be set later by the country's Election Commission, but is widely expected to come within a few weeks and will test whether UMNO's traditional political planks of race, religion and economic stewardship can overcome the opposition's pitch for a more open and transparent society in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country.
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In the New Asian Economy, both profits and fears are on the rise as markets open up, customers trade up and competitors toughen up.
Just as few could have predicted the dramatic growth spurt of East Asian economies 30 years ago, it is hard to forecast today how open, agriculturally-rich economies will continue to develop.
Mareshia and her friends bucked 40 years of local customs this month by organizing their own integrated prom, a formal dance open to Wilcox County's white, black, Latino and Asian high school students.
While the renewed fighting is troubling for a fragile, multi-ethnic country that has just begun to open up after decades of isolation, the unrest spells particular risk for Asian energy firms.
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"The wave will come from Asia, where the new competitors are, not the other way around as it is today, " he says, predicting that this will soon result in a global Open Skies agreement that will in effect remove any measures that currently keep the Asian rivals out.
Li made history 20 months ago, lifting the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen in Paris to become the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title Roland Garros, better known as the French Open.
This would open the way for North Korea to join international organisations, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
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