asia

www.asiancha.com — Pete Spurrier of Blacksmith Books dishes on the trials of being an English publisher in Hong Kong, and what all aspiring authors in China should know about the marketplace.

laorencha.blogspot.com — Months ago I received the usual monthly e-mail newsletter from an organization I subscribe to. This newsletter often features articles, essays and stories from subscribers who have just moved abroad.

I scanned the one that was featured that month. The first line read: “A friend and I used to have a theory – that if you live abroad, you are either running from something or running to something.”

chinaboom.asiasociety.org — Whoa!!! Well worth the time to watch some of those videos. A team of researchers at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations spent hours interviewing people who shaped or were shaped by China's boom over the past 30 years. The website sums it up best: "Why did China Boom? 1 question. 100 experts. No single answer."

www.cnngo.com — Some Asian spas will make you wonder if you’ve paid to be pampered, or tortured. Here’s a round-up of the 20 weirdest techniques people use to loosen up. - - How many have you done? I can name 4.

online.wsj.com — East-West trade tensions are rising, and a new global free-trade agreement seems a distant dream. Yet here's the paradox: the drive for free trade within Asia, where the world's greatest concentration of economic growth now resides, has never been stronger.