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The article focuses on the decline of the paper industry in the 21st century. There was a significant decrease in printing-paper consumption since the peak in paper demand in North America in 2000. The key challenges facing the sector are boosting the environmental and usability credentials of paper and finding new applications for the pulp. But the consumption decline in the west is not reflected in Asia and South America.

The article discusses an academic publishing initiative in which the peer-review process can be fast-tracked if researchers are willing to pay a fee. Topics discussed include the involvement of members of the journal Scientific Reports' editorial board in protesting this decision, the practices of so-called predatory publishers that critics claim will publish any research for a fee, and the fact that research from Asia is often published in journals that publish for a fee.

The article focuses on why the skin complexions of Asians is age resistant. Even before wrinkles become a practical concern, young women are striving for the radiant flawlessness skin that renders base makeup irrelevant. The desire has driven the creation of more high-tech skin care touting cosmetic benefits. The tone-evening technology pioneered for Asia has been wending its way across the Pacific.

The article focuses on the prospects for world economic conditions in 2008. There is a consensus among economists that there will be a slowdown in growth, but opinions differ as to whether this will result in an actual recession. The results hinge on whether the growth in India, China, and Russia will be enough to counteract expected weakness in the U.S. economy.

Reports on the state of the Asian economy, as of December 8, 1997, and its treatment at a summit of leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vancouver, British Columbia. Forecasts for the far-reaching effects of a failed Japanese economy; Losses and larceny undermining the Japanese economy; Confidence voiced by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and others; South Korea's difficulties; Comments from Philippine President Fidel Ramos and others; Politics involved. INSET: Pepper protests, by Deborah Jones..

Presents an information supplement on Team Canada, a Canadian trade mission to Asia. Asian-Canadian business and educational partnerships; Monetary value of the partnerships.

This is an article about the boom in the mining industry in Asia in 2005. Investors with an ear to the ground have been hearing the buzz from below: the miners are back. It has been nearly a half-century since the mining industry experienced what economists call a "real" boom. In recent decades, mining has been the boom-bust bane of the stock market -- companies borrowing too much during booms to open too many new mines which came on stream at times of falling demand, producing price collapses for both the metals and their shares. The inflation mania of the 1970s, driven by fashionable intellectuals' claims that the world was running out of almost everything except fast-depreciating paper money, led to massive overinvestment in mines and smelters and plunging metals prices. Flash forward to the annual BMO Nesbitt Burns Global Resources Conference in Florida this month, one of the world's biggest gatherings for miners and institutional investors. Mining is a global business. Companies from around the world came to the conference to talk to investors from around the world. Mining companies must somehow find the will, the capital and the ore bodies to give the people of Asia the chance to live in the fashion we have long taken for granted.

Focuses on Asian stock markets, which the author feels has nowhere to go but up. The situation in Thailand and in Hong Kong; Why people may want to invest in Pacific Rim stocks as well as in the Templeton Institutional Emerging Markets Fund; The number of Hong Kong companies that are on the lists of some of the more successful international investors, including Hong Kong & China Gas Co. Ltd.

The article looks at the future of the Catholic church as of April 2013. Topics include the rise of Catholicism in Asia and Africa alongside its decline in Europe and North America, the clerical sex abuse scandals, and the efforts of the Catholic church to promote its teachings around clerical celibacy, contraception and abortion, and homosexuality despite the increasing acceptance of these things by the secular world.

The author discusses the Toronto Stock Exchange and Canada’s trading relationship with Asia. An overview of the diminishing trade balance between Canada and Asia is offered. The author gives an argument as to why a proposal, that would allow Canadian shareholders a greater say in company acquisitions, should be passed.

Focuses on the Asian economic crisis in 1998. Views of economist Paul Krugman; His arguments regarding Asian currency controls; His advice to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad; Concerns of Canadian Finance Minster Paul Martin.

Opinion. Argues that Canada will inevitably be affected by the financial crisis in Asia. Comments from billionaire Robert Friedman; The lag between the harsh reality of the situation and any understanding of what this phenomenon is going to mean, once its fallout hits Canada; What Friedland envisages.

Examines ways in which Asia's financial collapse is affecting the Canadian economy in December 1997. Bank of Canada governor Gordon Thiessen's decision to raise short-term interest rates in an attempt to prop up the Canadian dollar; How Asian markets have affected the Canadian dollar; Areas most affected, such as raw material exports; Figures for the British Columbia resource sector and other areas; Forecasts.

Deals with the difficulties on the Hong Kong stock market and how it did not seem to faze Asian investors. The buying that went on after the market was down; The volume of calls; Comments of Tung Chan, vice-president of Asian banking for the Toronto-Dominion's Pacific division; The reaction of Chinese-Canadians.