Your editor joined them, mixing with the likes of Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence and Timothy Dattels of the private equity giant now known in Asia-Pacific as tpg.
Today, though it holds stakes in publicly traded companies such as Wison Engineering and Weichai Power, the family company is best known in Hong Kong for its real estate and hotels in Asia and Canada.
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At least one other European car company is known to be seeking similar bargains in Asia.
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Perhaps one day he'll be known in the philanthropic world for changing the face of charitable giving in Asia.
Ms Hvistendahl is convincing in telling the little-known story of how Westerners helped create the conditions under which sex selection began in Asia.
AirAsia, which is known as a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia, already operates flights into Indian cities including Bangalore, Kochi and Chennai.
For example, the listed PT Visi Media Asia (known as Viva), in which his family firm is a shareholder and he is president director, will also create a new sports channel called Sports One.
Microsoft Research Asia, known as MSRA, was established in Beijing 10 years ago.
President Barack Obama said in Tokyo the U.S. will restart talks to potentially take part in a regional Asia-Pacific free trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership that currently includes Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New Zealand.
Some airlines, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, have always been known for impressing their passengers' palates.
One substitute, especially in South Asia, could be cassava - which is known to be tolerant to a range of climate stresses.
Andre Lee was widely blamed for almost single-handedly bringing down one of Asia's best-known investment banks, Peregrine, in 1998, by lending a large part of its capital base to a troubled Indonesian taxi company with links to the then ruling Suharto family.
"There is too much attention over and over on those brands that really have started to make changes" in the West, and not enough focus on lesser-known Asia brands that also serve giant markets, said Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser at Better Factories Cambodia, a project of the International Labour Organization that works to improve factory conditions in the Southeast Asian country.
Both Indian shows were brought forward by a week as a result of the mystery virus, known as Sars, that has so far killed more than 80 people worldwide, mainly in Asia.
"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.
Jimson weed, a white-flowered plant, also known as Thornapple, Stinkweed and Devil's Trumpet, is a native of Asia but grows abundantly in the United States.
Relatively new diseases like AIDS get most of the attention, but ancient killers once thought to be under control are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America: malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis (also known as dum-dum fever).
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?
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