Asia & Pacific

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Wall Street & Technology November 19, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Asia Tops World for Money Laundering Risk A global survey of senior anti-money laundering compliance officers identified Asia as the region currently experiencing the greatest increase in money laundering risk.
Outside November 2007 Christian DeBenedetti	Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People... The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Tsunami Risk High in Myanmar Once thought to be relatively seismically quiet, the northern part of the Bay of Bengal may instead be prone to giant earthquakes that could spawn tsunamis, with potentially devastating consequences for the bay's densely populated coasts, according to a new study.
Real Travel Adventures November 2007 Bonnie Neely	Koji Kobayashi: Spreading Peace Through Music Hiroshima bombing survivor Koji Kobayashi has launched a bold campaign to reach around the world with a message of peace through music and the urgent cry to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Fast Company November 1, 2007 Jonathan Green	Nightmare in Boomtown Mark Seidenfeld was just another American businessman cashing in on the post-Soviet boom. Then one bad deal in Kazakhstan sent his life into a spiral of extortion, Siberian prison, and frontier justice. A cautionary tale.
Wired August 21, 2007 Julian Smith	Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay The Marmaray tunnel project is ambitious enough to worry even the most experienced engineers, but its location could give a seismologist night sweats. All this work is taking place just 12 miles from the North Anatolian Fault, Eurasia's version of the San Andreas.
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Richard Shaffer	Unplanned Obsolescence Grameen's famous Village Phone Program lifted thousands out of poverty, and helped Muhammad Yunus win the Nobel Peace Prize. The problem: The program is not working anymore.
HBS Working Knowledge August 6, 2007 Martha Lagace	High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal Nepal, the home of Mount Everest, has been gripped in recent years by civil war. A new paper looks at the roots of Nepal's conflict from a variety of angles and concludes that investing in poverty reduction is a key for peace.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Engardio et al.	Broken China Beijing can't clean up the environment, rein in stock speculation, or police its companies. Why the mainland's problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Burton & Zanello	Asia Ten Years After A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list.
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