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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, select cities in Pacific Asia formed or significantly deepened formal institutional linkages with a variety of foreign (mainly Western) universities. The objective of this paper is to examine: the policy objectives of Singapore, a Pacific Asian city-state, in opening up its territory to new forms of foreign educational knowledge, institutional structures, practices, and technologies; the specific programs and practices that have enabled the Singaporean state to implement these policy objectives; and the preliminary implications of various 'modes of entry' that the foreign universities have adopted for the formation of university-industry linkages in Singapore. Key words--Asia, Singapore, universities, globalization, higher education, services

An overview is presented on the subjects covered at the Singapore Conference on Economic Geography, held Dec 4-9, 2000. Subjects included global production and globalization, labor, networks, transportation, telecommunications, agglomeration/cluster economies, and development and embeddedness.

Presents information on the devastation caused by tsunami. Note on the disaster of so many resorts favored by tourists from rich countries in the West; Criticism of the raciologically differentiated valuations of life and death; View that raciological ways of organizing and classifying the world have retained a special baggage of perceptual inclinations, perceptual habits and scalar assumptions; Impact of the bombings at and around the Sari nightclub in Bali on the tourism industry; Report that Bali's tourist economy has not recovered despite heavy discounting and marketing; Report in The Washington Post that the Bali bombing is a significant case of terrorism in Indonesia's history.

Editorial. Introduces a series of articles on economic geography.

Editorial. Discusses the practical initiatives that academics can consider to broaden out the scope of geography. Use of hiring practices, workshops and conferences to facilitate change in the discipline; Plans of globalizing the faculty starting with having a diverse staff; Emphasis on the author's work experience in Singapore; Suggestions on how to identify and solve problems encountered in the discipline.

Highlights the proceedings of the Global Conference on Economic Geography, which was held on December 5-9, 2000, in Singapore. Number of attendees; Attempt to rethink the relationship between the sub-discipline and the wider science community; Themes of papers presented at the conference; Organization of three fieldtrips.

Explores the relationships between globalizing tendencies and the changing form of Chinese business networks. Reshaping of Chinese business networks by an array of actor-networks with an international business dimension; Desire of large Chinese firms to access financial resources that flow through the global financial system; Relational approach to analyzing economic organization.