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...ASIA Indonesia: Antiterror academy Thailand: Poisoned canals China: N. Korean brides...
...ASIA Indonesia: Antiterror academy Thailand: Poisoned canals China: N. Korean brides...
...leadership [Oct. 20]. Despite all the criticisms leveled against him, it is undeniable that Mahathir truly put Malaysia on the world map. I can still remember when my parents, while traveling abroad, would have had a hard time explaining that Malaysia was located north of Singapore and south of Thailand. Those days are over. Despite Mahathir's sometimes controversial remarks about certain ethnic groups and foreign media or governments, Malaysia is a moderate, tolerant Muslim nation where Malays, Chinese and Indians live in harmony, maintaining their own cultures and religions. Let's hope that Mahathir's successor, Deputy Prime Minister...
...seriously, we need a big staff that checks every exit port every day." In the meantime, the industrial-scale looting continues unabated. In 1999 entire slabs of bas-relief from Banteay Chhmar, a magnificent temple in western Cambodia, were loaded onto trucks and driven to Thailand. Roads were bulldozed through the jungle to carry out the sandstone chunks, leading Thai police who later intercepted the load to charge the Cambodian military with complicity. This March looters trekked upriver to Kbal Spean, a distant jungle enclave where elaborately carved bas-reliefs from the 11th century decorate the riverbed and surrounding rocks...
...must be Singapore. We're heading out later today for the sixth leg of our 26,000 mile journey. Sunday was an absurdly blinding three countries in one day - woke up in Japan at 3 AM, then to Manila for eight hours of showing the flag and then to Thailand, the centerpiece of the trip, and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. I understand the rush but did Bush really need to spend more time in Fresno and Riverside, CA than he did in Japan and the Philippines? Did he really need the extra campaign cash? (Granted he did some...