But Gagosian also aims to represent a wide range of artists of interest to both Asian and Western collectors.
The young American expat thought the time was right for a print magazine that showcased products of Asian manufacturers for Western buyers.
"You don't have to show the opponent what you are thinking, a little bit like Hollywood, " said the Wuhan native, who prefers Asian cuisine over Western cuisine no matter where she is in the world.
Having studied 744 large companies and quizzed 1, 500 executives in ten Asian countries, they conclude that, unlike their Western counterparts, Asian senior managers are not very interested in the subject.
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.
Myanmar, of course, is not the only Asian country that offends western political sensibilities.
While you hear plenty about Asian students steamrolling their Western counterparts in standardised tests, Thailand is nearer the bottom of the tables.
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As Asian economies flourish while Western economies flounder, bankers and fund managers have been packing up and moving to Asia from New York and London.
And until the museums open, these dynamic Hong Kong galleries are a visitor's best hope at catching a glimpse of coveted works from emerging and established western and Asian artists.
One example: The Raffles hotel chain has created two restaurant brands, Doc Cheng's and Jaan's, based on the Singapore-based originals and their fusion of Western and Asian cuisine.
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.
That is why Dr Mahathir's blend of western politics and Asian strong-man is so potent.
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.
Not only will Western economies slow, Asian exports may be hit as consumption falls.
The conglomerate discount is far bigger in America and western Europe than in Asian and emerging economies.
But now the Asian markets are moving toward the Western model of continuous trading, and shortening their lunch breaks.
Mr Baty said that while the table was dominated by western universities, East Asian institutions were quietly gaining ground.
That is less than the cost price for many Western manufacturers and small Asian ones, several of which have already gone bust.
Long term, I think copper will be dependent more on Asian demand and the recovery in Western economies than this type of situation (Greece).
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Growth rates may slow, as they did in the case of western Europe and the Asian tigers, or they may falter, as in Latin America in the 1990s.
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.
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.
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There is a growing demand for luxury apparel and popular western brands in the Asian market and 15-25 year olds make up an increasing percentage of the population, which the company primarily targets.
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.
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.
We believe that in today's rapidly changing Africa, there is great room for experimentation and mutual learning: the continent could be at the forefront of an overdue exercise in soul searching by the international media, whether Asian, Arab, African or Western.
Their dilemma will be to figure out how South Asian they want to appear versus how Western they want to be.
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.
More important, traditional Asian medicine is now being taken seriously by Western-educated physicians.
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