We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was...

In my view, Asia is doing quite reasonably well for communicable diseases that now we have reached the point we can afford to discuss suicides and mental health problems in general.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

Taiwan is probably the most dangerous situation in East Asia at this point,

Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella meta; il fine del viaggiare é il viaggiare stesso e non l’arrivare.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

Everybody can entirely write off their exposure to Russia and this quarter earnings would suffer, but that would be the end of it and things will keep chugging along. It’s not just Russia. They are...

For Singapore, it bodes well for its efforts to be a hub for Southeast Asia, offering companies international investors they can tap.

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Through his dedicated and sustained efforts in Bangladesh, Laos and other countries in south-east Asia, Dr. Gupta made small-scale aquaculture a viable means for over one million very poor farmers and women to improve their...

Russia is unable to increase its exports without cheap gas from Central Asia to compensate for a deficit on its domestic market.

We shouldn’t avoid the fact that Pakistan has some misgivings about China’s strategy in South Asia, and we need to strengthen mutual confidence.

It is like taking the tires off cars. It was a real sudden impact for the entire industry including Asia and Europe and everywhere that sells foam surfboards.

The EU took many years to establish such an economic union. This is a proposal from Japan to East Asia to take the first step toward an economic community.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.

Since 2003, NVO Asia has not only contributed to Nokia’s renewal but also benefited the local partners in the Chinese mobile ecosystem.

Asian films are surging right now. TIFF, one of the biggest film festivals in Asia, will further vitalize Asian films and promote cultural exchanges between [Asian filmmakers and their counterparts] in other parts of the...

We believe the avian situation we currently have in Southeast Asia is a perfect set-up for this virus to mutate into a human-to-human transmitted agent, which is a big problem and could lead this to...

There is robust demand for Japanese goods from the U.S. and Asia.

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging...

In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group’s harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person really...

And it’s different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it’s so close to home. It’s affecting a place that many of us have visited and are...

I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences…Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do...

Motorola is nipping at them in Asia.

Good relations between the United States and China are important to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

The financial turbulence of Asia and other market changes have crimped the expected expansion of global chip markets in early 1998,

No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your...

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Japan has viewed Southeast Asia from a Western perspective and people have thought they understood the region only by visiting major cities, but he presented a different viewpoint.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.

Many countries use vaccines and think the virus is completely exterminated … but this problem is still in southeast Asia. It’s even in migratory birds and they are dying. Why? Because the virus has gone...

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring...

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time

Out here in Asia,

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.

Frankly, I would say that the trend of ongoing pressure from Asia isn’t a particular surprise. The great percentage of the impact from Asia has probably already been felt in Boeing’s stock price, but there...

We don’t have the same concerns about a financial contagion that we saw spread once through the region of Asia and then, certainly, in Russia. This hasn’t been the same type of flight to quality...

We pick those two for their exposure to the domestic market. We think the recovery in Asia is lifting demand and has re-established a floor under oil prices, and we don’t expect prices to drop...

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

The products problems cannot be solved. One way to solve the products (supply) problem is imports from Europe or Asia.

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It’s doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly...