New York - It's been a good year for Southeast Asia's 40 richest businesspeople.
So maybe Arabia was colonized early and there was a long pause before the Beachcomber Express set off for southeast Asia?
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Based in Jakarta, the affable ambassador confesses to not playing golf the sport of choice for Southeast Asia's movers and shakers.
Urban poverty, a too-common remnant of the 1997 financial crisis, ought to be giving way to GDP growth statistics that are respectable for Southeast Asia.
It's been a good year for Southeast Asia's 40 richest businesspeople.
And while the list of places No Reservations has visited is long and covers much of the globe, Bourdain seems to have a special spot in his heart for Southeast Asia.
Obama is carving out new patterns for U.S. engagement in Asia, says Ernest Bower, a senior adviser and chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.
So for many in Southeast Asia, this may be their last chance.
So we do believe that, in addition to wanting to support the democratic agenda and the human rights agenda that we've been promoting in Burma, we also see a very positive future for Burma as a partner within Southeast Asia and within the region for the United States.
The growth of India and China also creates opportunity for other emerging players, particularly in Southeast Asia by creating markets for goods and services as well as investment capital.
It provides stability for the whole of Southeast Asia, a region of more than half a billion people.
It soon escalated into Indonesia's worst outburst of communal violence - and the most serious in Southeast Asia for decades.
Receiving Forbes at the presidential offices in Jakarta on Nov. 8, Yudhoyono tempered his resolve for further liberalization of Southeast Asia's cornerstone economy with frequent nods to popular anxieties.
And that also includes the way in which Burma is a critical part of our vision for the future of Southeast Asia and America's relationship with this very important region of the world.
She and her late husband, Murray Roman, built a successful marketing business, but when the couple decided they wanted more out of life, they moved to Southeast Asia for year to volunteer with UNICEF.
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One priority is to find global partners that will help Chrysler develop small, inexpensive cars for developing markets like Southeast Asia, India and Russia--something that Daimler could not provide through its Mercedes luxury brand.
China's visa requirements for visitors from Southeast and East Asia also lowered Shanghai's chances.
Another article takes a brief look at recent efforts by the Malaysian government to reverse an influx of migrants from Southeast Asia looking for low-wage work.
Southeast Asia, for example, has got some 600 million people, and in terms of overall banking penetration we have some markets like Indonesia, where it's got a penetration rate of only 30%.
"If passed in the current form, the draft law will essentially replace Burma's old censorship regime with a similarly repressive new one, " said Shawn Crispin, Southeast Asia representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami.
Indonesia is an island chain stretching for 6, 000 kilometers across Southeast Asia.
Indonesia is an island chain stretching for 3, 750 miles across Southeast Asia.
On the environmental side, it notes that demand for biofuels has accelerated the clearing of primary forest for palm plantations, particularly in southeast Asia.
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He thought Southeast Asia was ready for a higher-priced, Western-style chocolate.
This year, Southeast Asia has accounted for 17% of revenue in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan in core investment banking, up from 15% for all of last year.
In the past, too little stress was laid on preparing Southeast Asia's peoples for a future in which they will conduct more trade and exchanges with one another than with outsiders.
This is a great trip for someone who has never been to Southeast Asia and wants to get a taste of the major cities while having sea days to relax in between most stops.
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In a spring swing through Shanghai, Beijing and Southeast Asia I kept looking for the pillars to sustain the global economy, even as the U.S., Europe and Japan must struggle a good while longer.
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