The Guangzhou native moved to the U.S. as a teenager and graduated from Columbia before later finding his way back to Asia in 1997.
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Welsh Secretary David Jones - recalled from Japan for a House of Commons vote that won't now happen - is now on his way back to Asia.
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But we've turned our attention back to the Asia Pacific region, and I think that it's paying off immediately in a whole range of improved relations with countries, and businesses are starting to see more opportunities as a consequence.
And, as the euro zone crisis forces more banks to pull back from Asia, the timing seems ripe for local financiers to flex their muscles.
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They are now rising at a double-digit rate on the back of sales to Asia, where Mr Davies used to work.
When it comes to commercial real estate investment flows China still takes a back seat in Asia to Japan and Australia, whose markets have better transparency, more experienced investors and deeper inventory.
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Bonds do have one big advantage over equities which harkens back to the tradition in Asia of the family-owned business.
For example, in the export area, I just came back from a trip to Asia in which one of my highest priorities was discussing how we can increase exports into that region.
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Not long ago, policymakers reckoned that such guarantees would be one of the keys to getting Asia back on its feet.
Harder still because the system dates back hundreds of years to South Asia, where traders and merchants on the Indian subcontinent devised the system to avoid being robbed as they traveled.
"The history of container shipping involves ship lines taking huge gambles, " says Marc Levinson, who points to a trend for some American and European companies to move manufacturing back from Asia.
Japan was able to turn its back on Asia for most of the post-war period because of a strong security alliance with America that has now been going for 50 years.
They found that resistance to this drug could be traced back to the 1950s and to specific events in south-east Asia, South America and Papua New Guinea.
It will now focus on Europe and, notably, Asia to pay back its creditors, and a temporary headquarters will be set up in Kuala Lumpur.
So focus will now turn back to what goes on in Europe and Asia in the overnight markets.
The Russian leadership is painfully aware that it still does not have the financial or military resources to pit itself against the United States, let alone to woo back the countries of Central Asia a second time.
Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.
Then, the new finished products from Asia would make their way back to the United States.
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However he sees Japan's return to the top in 2012 as simply "going back to the natural order of things" after Asia's second largest economy was devastated by the 2011 quake and tsunami.
Upon Mr Clinton's departure, the American assistant secretary of state for South Asia, Karl Inderfurth, flew back to Delhi, ostensibly to apprise the Indians of the results of the meeting.
And Lotus team principal Tony Fernandes said on his Twitter page that personnel from the Ferrari, Renault, Mercedes, Sauber and Toro Rosso teams were flying on his Air Asia airline to Malaysia before heading back to the UK on a special charter when the airports open.
Mr. President, you're here of course to talk about Asia, but much of the world's attention and yours is also being diverted back to the Middle East now and the situation in Gaza.
And that will conclude what is a very busy few days in Asia and we'll be heading back to the United States the evening of Thursday the 19th.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Costco (COST), Target (TGT) and Home Depot (HD) are the leaders I went over on CNBC Asia a few months back for macro investors to look at.
Do you remember back in 2003, when practically everyone traveling to and from Asia was wearing a mask and there was a travel advisory in affect over a new mysterious disease known as SARS?
At 1381 the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index, which doubled in 1999 from its 1998 Asia crisis lows, is now back down almost to crisis levels.
And we consider it a top priority because we're not going to be able to put our folks back to work and grow our economy and expand opportunity unless the Asia Pacific region is also successful.
So, as the magazine prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, this is perhaps a fitting occasion to look back at the people who were powering the news in Asia in our first editions.
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