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...were discovered in stores in September 2003, a worrying development in a city with modern health regulations and consumer safeguards. In countries where there is little policing of the pharmaceutical trade, the chances of walking into a drugstore and being sold a fake are surprisingly high. Consumers living in Southeast Asia face a 1 in 10 chance of buying a counterfeit, cautions the IFPMA. The situation is worse in mainland China, where consumers have a fifty-fifty chance of buying fake versions of some types of over-the-counter medications. And for those seeking top-selling (and hence much copied...
...clearest windows into the troubled state of Indonesia. The Brussels-based ICG's mission is to use research to help prevent violent conflict, and it has been in the right place at a turbulent time: American human-rights activist Sidney Jones, head of the organization's Southeast Asian office, and a handful of expatriate and Indonesian researchers have produced 39 uncompromising reports on subjects ranging from bloody conflicts in Aceh, Ambon and East Timor to the origins of Islamic terror in the region...
...Qaeda continuing to grow and prosper despite the loss of its Afghan sanctuaries and so many of its personnel, and the fact that it has been relentlessly hounded by security services across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia? The consensus among security analysts is that the key to eliminating al-Qaeda as a threat is to transform the permissive political environment in which it operates in the Muslim world. Instead, the opposite has occurred - Muslim anger at the U.S. has reached an all-time high and continues to grow, driven by outrage at U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...print- and TV-ad campaign in mid-2001 that shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been a surprising success, says Steven Galster, director of WildAid's Southeast Asia office, who cites a recent survey in Thailand in which 32% of the respondents said they had given up the pricey delicacy. "Sharks," he admits, "usually don't elicit much sympathy...
...that it takes a world-class racer to cover the 50 km (nearly 8 km more than a marathon). "Now I realize it looks strange," Korzeniowski says during a coffee break in his Tourcoing apartment. He didn't as a teen. The sport was popular in the part of southeast Poland where he grew up, so "you weren't just a single person with a funny walk." In any case, he was just glad to be doing something sporty. At 9, he'd come down with a rheumatic illness. Sports were off-limits. He recovered at 13, "a present from...