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...Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad thinks he has. He says that Soros was upset by the decision of the Association of South East Asian Nations to admit Burma to their group ? Burma being one of the less democratic countries in the region ? and decided to drive their currency values down. ASEAN currencies have been going into tailspin against the dollar of late; Thailand, for one, had to be bailed out by the IMF to the tune of $16.7 billion. Still smarting, the Asian Tigers are screaming for Soros' head on a plate...
Over the course of the year, campus activists criticized the Corporation Committee for Shareholder Responsibility for failing to recommend divestment from corporations that do business in Nigeria and Burma, countries with known track records of human rights abuses...
NCGUB is a Washington-based international organization that considers itself a provisional government. It consists of the democratically-elected officials exiled from Burma's 1990 elections, who are trying to restore human rights and democracy in Burma from afar...
Last year, the group convinced Harvard University Dining Services to reject a contract offer with Pepsi Co., which heavily invested in Burma at that time. Since then, Pepsi has ended its Burmese operations...
HBAG is also a member of the Free Burma Coalition, an umbrella organization based at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The parent organization works closely with the NCGUB to lobby President Clinton and members of Congress...