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Us</strong></font></td> <td width="36%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="51" align="middle" valign="center"> <div align="right"><font class="time"><strong> <script language="javascript"> function showDate(){ var monthArray=["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"] var days=["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"] var d=new Date(); var month=d.getMonth() var day=d.getDate() var year=d.getYear() // document.write("Today is " + days[d.getDay()] + "<BR>") document.write(monthArray[month]) document.write(" ") document.write(day) document.write(", ") if(d.getYear()<2000){document.write(year+1900)} if(d.getYear()>2000){document.write(year)} } </script> <script language="javascript">showDate()</script> </strong></font> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="65%" valign="top"> <table width="493" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="493"> <p class="body"> </p> <p class="body"><font size="2"><img height="250" hspace="5" src="/web/20030801101546im_/http://atimes.com/images/f_images/chart.gif" width="133" align="left">Asia Times Online, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801101546/http://www.atimes.com/">http://www.atimes.com</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801101546/http://www.asiatimes-chinese.com/">http://www.asiatimes-chinese.com</a> , is a quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues. We look at these issues from an Asian perspective; this distinguishes us from the mainstream English-language media, whose reporting on Asian matters is generally by Westerners, for Westerners. Our Chinese-language edition presents our articles to Chinese readers around the world.<br> </font> </p> <p class="body" align="left"><font size="2">We are served by more than 30 correspondents and contributors in 13 Asian countries, the US, and Europe. Additional content is provided by news services and renowned think tank and investment analysts and academics.</font></p> <p class="body"><font size="2">Asia Times Online was founded at the beginning of 1999 and is incorporated and duly registered in Hong Kong. It derives its revenues from advertising and the resale of original content to other publications and news services.</font></p> <p class="body"><font size="2">Historically, in our publication policy and editorial outlook, we are the successor of Asia Times, the Hong Kong/Bangkok-based daily print newspaper founded in 1995 and associated with the Manager Media Group, which had to cease publication in the summer of 1997 as a result of the Asian financial crisis. Like its predecessor, Asia Times Online gives its readers worldwide an overview of Asian news events, looking behind the headlines that are the stuff of the news agencies and networks.</font></p> <p><font size="2"> We reach a global readership that is rapidly increasing. Readers are people of influence - investors, company executives, politicians, diplomats, academics, analysts, journalists - who need to know about Asian affairs. One of our aims is to become a "must read" for Westerners and Asians who do business with each other.</font></p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><img height="49" src="/web/20030801101546im_/http://atimes.com/images/f_images/atimes_logo.gif" width="176"><strong>and</strong></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="159"> <p align="center"><span class="body"><strong><font size="2"><img height="49" src="/web/20030801101546im_/http://atimes.com/images/f_images/chinese_logo.gif" width="177"></p> <br> </font></strong></span> <p class="body"><font size="2"><strong>Editor (Hong Kong):</strong><font size="2"> Wong Kwok Wah<br> <br> </font><strong>Managing Editor (Thailand Bureau Chief):</strong> Allen Quicke<br> </font><font size="2"> <br> </font><font size="2">The senior Asia Times Online editorial team has a total of over 45 years' experience living and working in Asia, having previously worked for publications such as the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong iMail, Asia Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, and Asia Times (newspaper).</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" class="body"><font size="2"> <br> <strong> <br> <font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Some of our senior writers<br> </font></font></strong><font size="5"><font size="2">(Click for a biographical note on a writer)</font> </font></font> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="6%"> </td> <td width="94%"><font size="1" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="javascript:MM_openBrWindow('/atimes/others/ehsan.html','','resizable=yes,width=450,height=350')"><strong>EHSAN AHRARI</strong> </a></font><a href="javascript:MM_openBrWindow('/atimes/others/ehsan.html','','resizable=yes,width=450,height=350')"> <font face="Geneva, Arial, 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