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...Whether dips in opium cultivation in key heroin-producing regions like the Golden Triangle - the region where Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, and traditionally Australia's main heroin source - also played a part wasn't looked at by the ANU study. But the federal government credits closer cooperation between Customs and federal police and a bigger a.f.p. presence overseas, as well as the simple size advantage Australia has over countries like the U.S. and Britain in coordinating its law-enforcement program. "In the U.S. they have 18,000 police forces; we have only nine," says Justice and Customs Minister Chris...
...interesting facts about an academic discipline (science, anthropology, history, semiotics) that most of his countrymen would have been loath to learn about if it were not sugar-coated in fiction. The Calcutta Chromosome was brimming with details about genetics and malaria; The Glass Palace explored the colonial history of Burma and India; and The Hungry Tide, Ghosh's latest novel, contains long digressions into cetology?the study of marine mammals...
...DIED. KYI MAUNG, 85, vice chairman and co-founder of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD); in Rangoon. Kyi Maung led the NLD to a landslide victory in Burma's 1990 election after party head Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest?the ruling junta has never honored that electoral result. After the election, Kyi Maung, who had often been detained in the past, was sentenced to 20 years in jail but was released in 1995. He eventually fell out with Suu Kyi over how best to fight the junta...
...distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...
...Bangkok's Washington Square is a compact slice of Americana lost in space and time. If you're in the Thai capital and happen to need a fix of bourbon and Johnny Cash tunes?or a quiet spot to chow down fried chicken amid Jim Beam and Burma Shave signage?then you've found your mecca...