Word: asia
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...death is a personal loss to TIME. Wickrematunge had been a freelance reporter for us since 2002, and I am the third South Asia bureau chief to benefit from his patient and perceptive explanations of Sri Lanka's complex history and politics. For 25 years, its government has been fighting a brutal armed separatist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a conflict that has claimed more than 65,000 lives. The Tigers, who pioneered the use of suicide bombers, are agitating for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils--a response to decades of suppression...
...many living in Asia, the news on Jan. 11 that an Indonesian ferry had capsized in heavy seas, with hundreds of passengers presumed drowned, was sadly familiar. In some of the region's poorest countries, passenger vessels large and small are an essential mode of public transportation used by millions of travelers a year. They are also perhaps the most dangerous...
...Airline disasters may grab the front-page headlines, but in Asia, ferry accidents are more common - and deadlier. Last year, nearly 1,500 people perished in nine major ferry accidents in the region. The death toll for airline crashes in Asia was 93 in four incidents. Last year's biggest ferry disaster occurred on June 21 in the Philippines, when the MV Princess of the Stars foundered and capsized, taking almost 800 lives. More people died in that accident than in the largest air-travel disaster in history - the 1977 runway collision between two 747s in Tenerife, Spain, which killed...
Determined to get Brits to try new brews, Lovell's Rare Tea Company (www.rareteacompany.com) sources and sells exclusive, uncommonly tasty teas from Asia and Africa. It was on a business trip to Asia in 2000 that Lovell, a former project manager, discovered her passion for a superior sip. "In China, businesspeople would show off by buying a $120 pot of tea at lunch," she says. "I'd never tasted anything like it." Made from leaves grown and processed on small mountain gardens, those exquisite infusions were far removed from the bland British teabag - which can contain leaves from...
Freedom is on the march! Sort of. According to Freedom House, a nonpartisan democracy and human-rights NGO, freedom has advanced in certain pockets of the globe (shout out to you, South Asia), while having retreated in many other places (but not to you, former Soviet Republics). In this latest version of their annual report, the group surveyed 193 countries and 16 territories, labeling each either "Free" (possessing political competition and respect for civil liberties and an independent media), "Partly Free" (limited political and civil rights, often afflicted by corruption and various forms of strife, or "Not Free" (totalitarian, lacking...