BUSINESS
By Kim Clark and Kim Clark,Sun Staff Writer | April 4, 1995
Waverly Inc. announced yesterday that it had bought a string of medical publishing and distribution properties in Europe and Asia for a total of $3 million.The Baltimore-based medical journal and textbook publisher acquired two German professional journals that focus on "natural" or alternative treatments, such as acupuncture. The journals, with a combined circulation of about 30,000, had sales of about $500,000 a year, said E. Philip Hanlon, Waverly's chief financial officer.Waverly also bought Germany's leading medical test preparation publisher, Mediscript, which has sales of about $500,000 a year.
NEWS
By Edward Liu | February 11, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO -- Call it what you will -- the Asian flu, meltdown, deflation. The financial turmoil that began in Thailand six months ago has spread and debilitated the tiger economies in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, and rocked the financial markets in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan.While the U.S. media remainfixated on what we Asians call America's "geisha" scandal in the White House, there is a human story imploding in Asia that could have a profound impact on our global village.
FEATURES
By Stephen Wigler and Stephen Wigler,Sun Music Critic | September 11, 1994
Sunday's Arts & Entertainment section incorrectly listed a performance in the schedule of the Peabody Institute's Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra. The groups will perform Haydn's "The Perils of Fidelity" on Nov. 18-20.The Sun regrets the error.The big musical event this season in Baltimore takes place outside Baltimore. It will be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's first trip to Asia -- a four-week tour this October and November that will take the BSO and its music director, David Zinman, to cities in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
NEWS
By Nirav Patel | February 17, 2009
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Asia this week, she will fundamentally and profoundly change the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy. The "Iraqification" of foreign policy under President George W. Bush permeated strategic thinking during the last eight years and undermined the United States' standing around the world. As the tides of power shift from the West to the East, the United States has been stuck in the sand. Mrs. Clinton's decision to go to Asia for her first overseas trip underscores the growing geopolitical significance of the region and a strong desire to rebalance American engagement.
NEWS
By ROBERT BENJAMIN | May 8, 1994
Beijing. -- America's frustrated in Asia these days.The U.S. triumph in the Cold War in Europe has been quickly tempered by a wide range of trans-Pacific conflicts with newly self-confident Asian states increasingly willing to defy America's will.Many in Asia believe that America's problems in the region are bound to multiply unless the country adopts a far less haughty approach as it moves into what has been dubbed the "Pacific Century.""The crux of the problem is, you have a missionary, messianic zeal, which is not equal to the task of changing the world," Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and senior minister, told The Sun in a recent interview.
BUSINESS
By Martin C. Evans and Martin C. Evans,Orange County Register | September 10, 1994
It is a holiday Tuesday night in fashionable Shinjuku in Tokyo, but there are only two Americans at the Shakey's Pizza shop.Another bad night for an American company trying to make it in Japan?Hardly. The place is packed mostly with young affluent Japanese -- every one of them gobbling away.In many respects, their numbers are a wordless tribute to the success U.S. fast-food companies are having marketing themselves in Asia.While the major chains have been in Japan for 25 years, even smaller players are showing up in droves, parlaying profits from the status-symbol image of American tastes.