Chinese entrepreneur parlays ads into riches
2006-05-11 13:28:04
Three years ago, Jason Jiang was an unknown Chinese entrepreneur with an offbeat notion to sell ads in elevator lobbies. Then he persuaded the money men to back him.
Warner Music dials up deal in S.Korea
2006-05-10 11:12:49
Warner Music Group CORP. is mounting an ambitious experiment in South Korea, one of the most digitally connected markets on earth.
Indian print media keep flourishing
2006-05-05 11:29:41
At a shopping-mall McDonald's here in India's capital, Isha Gupta, a 22-year-old MBA student, ignores a blaring television and flips through a newspaper, while munching a burger.
In China, facilities go green
2006-05-02 12:45:35
At a time when China's leaders are urging better protection of the environment, more foreign companies are setting an example by starting to look to international "green" standards to guide their operations here.
China likely to take more steps to cool economy
2006-04-29 12:00:57
China will have to do more than raise interest rates by more than one-quarter percentage point if it is to put the brakes on its economy, market watchers say.
Hunt for liquefied natural gas is heating up
2006-04-28 11:15:26
An Indonesian plan to scale back sales of liquefied natural gas to overseas buyers has prompted new concerns about the availability of LNG in Asia and could portend more struggles over one of the world's fastest-growing sources of energy.
EU shoe duty trips up tetailers
2006-04-24 14:53:21
At the promod fashion store here, saleswoman Coralie De Schrynmakers points to a pair of gold, soft-leather ballerina-style slippers.
G-7 ministers warn of risks to global growth
2006-04-24 08:57:07
Despite a robust world economy, finance ministers for the Group of Seven industrial powers voiced concern about the dangers to global growth from high energy prices, persistent trade imbalances and other threats.
Tokyo love New York food
2006-04-21 16:42:24
Discerning New Yorkers on a coffee break often head to the café at Soho's Dean & DeLuca for a $2.50 capuccino-hazelnut muffin or a $3 cup of hot chocolate. For drinks and oysters after work, it's the Grand Central Oyster Bar. For a hot poppy-seed bagel with an inch of cream cheese, it's H&H Bagels.
Way up and far out
2006-04-19 13:01:22
Challenging traditional notions of what tall buildings are supposed to look like, developers around the world have unveiled a flurry of new skyscraper designs in the past few months.
WTO head ponders a bold step
2006-04-18 13:47:17
Shortly before Arthur Dunkel, the world's top trade official for more than a decade, died last June, soon-to-be World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy went to visit him. Mr. Lamy wanted to ask about the nuclear option of world-trade diplomacy, known as a "Dunkel draft."
Developing problem
2006-04-17 12:05:59
To much of the outside world, India is a nation brimming over with people. Now add cars to that picture.