Besides, regulations are relatively lax in Asian compared to Western countries, and with strong lobbying, the tobacco companies can ensure it takes a long time before taxation rates start approaching those in the developed world.
FORBES: Asian Growth Drives Philip Morris International's $96 Fair Value
Mr. Murphy said his salesrooms in New York and London also saw a 31% uptick in registered Asian bidders this season a sign that some Asian collectors may be migrating to Western art categories while values for Asian art recalibrate.
For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.
But Gagosian also aims to represent a wide range of artists of interest to both Asian and Western collectors.
Their dilemma will be to figure out how South Asian they want to appear versus how Western they want to be.
Both Asian and Western diplomats point to the junta's more muscular approach to narcotics interdiction in the field over the past year.
It and the other brands are also used to secure bra straps -- and even to hold eyelids apart to make Asian eyes appear Western.
In 1898, in the town of Cavite El Viejo (now Kawit), south of Manila, General Emilio Aguinaldo declared his nation independent from Spain after 333 years of unbroken colonization, the first Asian state to break away from Western imperialism.
Mr. Ching said Sotheby's gallery will aim to educate Chinese buyers on Western art by first introducing them to Asian artists who already enjoy an international following, like Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, as well as 19th-century French painters such as Claude Monet, whose Impressionist landscapes are immediately recognizable to collectors everywhere, Mr. Ching said.
But if anything, such turmoil is likely to make Western investors turn to stable, pro-business Asian countries.
It might help to know that one of the most debated issues among curators of Asian and other non-Western art is how and where to exhibit modern and contemporary works.
These sundry calamities in the West have provided Asian commentators with an unmissable chance to unveil Western hypocrisy.
ECONOMIST: Disarray in the West generates mixed reactions in Asia
Later he was seen boarding a bus and at 14:42 he had changed from western clothing to an Asian garment and went to Acorn Chemists in Luton for his prescription.
BBC: Shobhna Jethwa: 'Boyfriend' denies murder of Luton mother
For instance, thanks largely to their education, many Japanese still believe that Tokyo's World War II aggression aimed chiefly to "liberate" Asian countries from Western colonialism and bring them the benefits of civilization and industry.
These statements can be interpreted as saying: thanks in advance for providing us with observer and eventual membership status in the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank as well as expanded access to Western credits (particularly the taxpayer guaranteed variety).
The G20 needs to find ways to correct the imbalances Asian saving and Western spending that lay behind the boom.
Through my own experience as an Asian living in a western world, I came to truly understand what poor new immigrants face when confronted by a completely different culture and language.
While tourism in the Philippines remains a trickle compared with Southeast Asian brethren like Thailand and Vietnam, and air links to western Mindoro are still infrequent, you should consider visiting now to experience the full effect of Apo Reef's untouched magnetism.
It records and distributes content from both worlds, with a focus on creating a fusion of the two as it introduces Western artists to a new, larger audience called desi (Hindi for everything from the Indian subcontinent) and provides South Asian artists a platform from which to cross over to the Western world.
The project would have processed gas from the Browse Basin, in Western Australia, into LNG for export to Asian utilities.
What most Asian manufacturers lack, however, is a brand name to sell in western markets.
Faced with pressure from rattled investors and Western trading partners, Asian governments have stepped up efforts to ensure uninterrupted essential services and to encourage bug control by private enterprise.
With rising Asian neighbours like China and Vietnam keen to invest in Cambodia, and Western ones like America and France keen to maintain their presence, Mr Hun Sen can cheerfully play them off against each other, while collecting goodies from all.
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.
It is one of several Western firms that benefit from Asian sexism, in that it is easier to recruit good women when their compatriots ignore them.
As it is, ASEAN, the ten-nation Association of South-East Asian Nations, is using the opening of parliament to argue for the lifting of longstanding Western sanctions on the grounds that the country has reformed itself.
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.
Prostate cancer is rare in Asian countries but relatively common in Western nations, and researchers feel it's probably due to some component of the Western diet, says Albertsen, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
Atlantic Basin (Western) plays are little more than a tool to exact top prices in prime Asian markets.
应用推荐