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The article focuses on the potential for international student recruitment to address the looming enrollment cliff facing U.S. colleges and universities. Topics include the demographic decline affecting higher education globally, comparisons with international counterparts such as Japan and Spain in attracting international students, and recent policy shifts in the U.S. aimed at enhancing support for international students and diversifying enrollments.

Business people across Asia have developed strategies to recover and prosper in the midst of the 1998 economic crisis. A Thai banker has aligned his bank with a powerful Dutch financial services corporation. Singapore Airlines is refurbishing airplanes when other Asian airlines sell stock to raise needed funds. Executive search firms have transitioned to posting applicants' resumes on the Internet. Japanese entrepreneurs have opened restaurants in urban areas where rents have significantly fallen.

Japan and China have begun building an economic relationship, but many within both countries resent the other nation. Many older Chinese who experienced the horrors of the World War II remember Japanese soldiers killing more than 200,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians. In the 1990s, Japan invested billions of dollars in China and Shanghai is home to more than 10,000 Japanese residents.

Focuses on Shanghai's position as China's cultural capital. The city's reinvention of its historic stature as the country's most open metropolis; Psychic connection of personal liberation and free enterprise in the city; Scheduled fall 1998 opening of the Shanghai Grand Theatre across from the Shanghai Museum; Development of a fashion industry; Revival of the decadent chic of the old Shanghai.

Shanghai's first Congress Hall, where the Chinese Communist Party was born 80 years ago, now sits amid a capitalist wonderland of upscale restaurants and bars--a $150 million property development that [...]

Oakland, California When telecom executive Mory Ejabat was looking for a home in 1999 for Zhone Technologies, his networking-equipment start-up, one of his first calls was to Oakland's mayor, Jerry [...]

The Buick assembly-line tour was not the most startling part of Kim Jong Il's unannounced trip to Shanghai last week. After all, the shock- haired North Korean leader has a [...]

The fans are stomping and clapping as the Japanese duo known as Puffy warble a disco tune. The stars toss their auburn-dyed hair and pace the stage, dressed in jumpsuits [...]

On Oct. 1, 1949, a silent but excited crowd of half a million people assembled to watch Mao Zedong announce the birth of the People's Republic of China. Suddenly, a [...]

Investigates the infusion of Asian culture into Hollywood via Hong Kong. Chinese stars in movies such as `Broken Arrow' in 1996. Action stars from the Orient who draw big crowds including Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Chow Yun-fat; Chan receiving the Musical Television (MTV) Lifetime Achievement Award; Details on Chan; Other stars and their movies.

Richard Branson has made three unsuccessful attempts to go around the globe in a balloon. However, he has been successful in launching Virgin Atlantic Airways and currently runs Virgin Group, which consists of the airline, Virgin Cola, and Virgin Stores. He hopes to expand his business to China where he plans to have a direct round trip flight between London and Shanghai.

When Chinese troops stormed into Tiananmen Square in 1989, they quickly pulled down the students' soaring statue--the 'Goddess of Democracy'-- which had become a sentimental link between the young protesters [...]

The murder of an Australian accountant sounds a warning to economicfixers across the region. Nobody told Michael Wansley when he became an accountant that he would be putting his life [...]

The Arts: Modern painting is in modest bloom in China. The goal: to define a modern esthetic. ON FEB. 5,1989, WITH great fanfare, the National Gallery in Beijing launched an [...]