Archive for May, 2006

Asia 101

May 1, 2006

After spending one week in Singapore, either my internal antenna is now receiving signals that did not leave the noise level before … or every paper and magazine seems to write about Asia these days. Given the GDP growth numbers I assume it is rather the latter.

Here is a good glossary published by World Business this month:

Sea Turtle – A native Chinese who left China to pursue higher education, and who is now going back to China to work as an executive or to set up a company.

Seaweed - An unsuccessful sea turtle.

Banana – Yellow on the outside, white on the inside :-)