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Turkey this week looks a lot like Russia, Brazil or Thailand during the Asian currency crisis of 1997 - financial panic, a crashing currency and interest rates that reached 17 percent a day before the central bank had to let the currency slip into free fall...
With no commercial cinemas in town, the film's distributors have had to lease the French Cultural Center and give outdoor viewings in the courtyard of a local television station. (The film opens in theaters in Thailand this month.) Cambodian audiences have been enthusiastic, and Ang is grateful the filming is over. Persuading Pich Chanboramey to don the hissing cap of serpents, he says, wasn't easy. "When she first saw the snakes, she cried and cried," Fay Sam Ang says. "But I told her she had to be professional. In the end, it was no problem. The snakes would...
...According to one estimate by Panitan Wattanayagorn, a regional security specialist, one-third of the arms flowing into the region is left over from Cambodia's decades of war. Another third consists of new weapons smuggled into Cambodia - and sometimes into Thailand through neighboring Laos - from China. The last third is from illegal sales by the Thai army, like the one I saw with...
...trafficking feeds the tide of violence that blights the region, threatens democracy and development, and destroys lives. But despite all that, there are few signs that it will be stopped, or even slowed. It's too lucrative for too many people. Take Thailand, for example. "After the collapse of military dictatorship in 1973," says Sungsidh Pirayarangsan, a professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and a specialist on the issue, "local godfathers, drug traffickers, traders of war weapons and others involved in illegal trade laundered themselves through the election process. Today, the contraband arms trade is able to survive because...
...large syndicates based in Thailand and Malaysia control the arms-smuggling trade but it is administered by a dizzyingly complex system of middlemen like Joe. When the police do crack down, those at the top, the brains running the muscle, are never touched. Take a man like Samnang. A 45-year-old arms trader, his daytime job is as a border guard on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia. "I am an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier," he says, smiling easily. We are talking outside his office at the bustling gateway, and Samnang is dressed for work - blue shirt...