Asia Society News
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Hong Kong is taking center stage on the global conspicuous-consumption circuit this week as billionaires descend on the city to choose from Angelina Jolie’s diamonds, Andy Warhol’s paintings and bottles of Romanee-Conti.
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In 2011, Russian billionaire Leonid Mikhelson helped pay for a giant stainless-steel slide during a retrospective by Belgian artist Carsten Holler at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. It was the most popular exhibition in the museum’s 35-year history.
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China is waging a campaign of cyber espionage against U.S. companies that is threatening to derail President Barack Obama’s second-term effort to improve ties, National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said.
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Hair carefully coiffed, a woman looks over her shoulder as her kimono parts to reveal a swelling breast.
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North Korea’s threats of preemptive nuclear strikes are “hyperbolic,” U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said, as the totalitarian state’s leader Kim Jong Un told troops to prepare for war.
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“Why am I the most boringly dressed here?” Charles Rockefeller said as a stream of Nehru collars, saris and kimonos passed him at the Asia Society ’s “Celebration of Asia Week” party last night.
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Charles Armstrong of the Asia Society talks with Bloomberg's David Wilson, Jon Erlichman and Bloomberg TV contributing editor William Cohan about North Korea's attack on a civilian-populated South Korean island near their disputed border.
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North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs pose a “serious threat” to the U.S. and its allies in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence agencies in an unclassified worldwide threat assessment.
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J. Michael Evans, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., took the spotlight as a dinner- leadership chairman at the Asia Society gala last night.
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Xi Jinping, the man in line to be China’s next president, warned officials on a 2004 anti-graft conference call: “Rein in your spouses, children, relatives, friends and staff, and vow not to use power for personal gain.”
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