As Asia advances, Getty finds much to conserve

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The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) is a project of the Los Angeles, CA-based J. Paul Getty Trust aimed at preserving Asian cultural sites endangered by progress and development. Aside from protecting cultural heritage in partnership with a local or national cultural group, GCI also teaches site management, which pertains to strategies for boosting the attractiveness as well as the revenue-generating potential of a site. It is about to wrap up a five-year project on the preservation of the Mogao Grottoes in China.

Management, Social policy, Interview, Asia, Natural resources, Natural monuments, Getty Conservation Institute

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Tracking Asia's consumers by class, not culture

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Most consumer behavior studies in Asia focus on classifying consumers by culture. Given the increased and diversified spending habits of Asians, such a culture-based classification has become inappropriate. To effectively track Asian consumer habits, it is advisable to classify consumers based on social class. Using such a classification, Asians exhibit several buying commonalities, namely, preference for brand-name products and the use of purchasing behavior as an expression of identity.

Research, Methods, Analysis, Marketing research, Market research, Consumer behavior, Asians

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Asia's evasive fund networks

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Hundi, Pakistan's money transferring system, allows for the transfer of funds without a paper trail that can be scrutinized and controlled by independent agencies or sources. Officials in Washington, D.C. and their allies believe that the funneling of the Islamic charitable funds to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network works in a similar way. The article details the workings of these kinds of money transfer systems.

Pakistan, Money Supply, Finance, Cover Story, bin Laden, Osama, Al-Qaeda

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