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...This is not a sunburned fancy. Five islands in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, a group of 572 islands about 300 km south of Burma, are being offered to developers by the Indian government in an effort to emulate the success of the Maldives in the tourism industry. New Delhi has decided that private investment is the best and cheapest way to encourage lucrative resort development. Successful bidders will get a 39-year lease and following that, an undisclosed revenue-sharing arrangement...
Once free, Lek and Tip appear unable even to consider that their mothers may have sold them into sexual slavery. They insist they want to go to Kentung, in Burma's eastern Shan state, to live with Tip's family. With trepidation, we agree to try to get them there. With traffic heavy on the bridge into Burma, the four of us cross unnoticed into the border town of Tachileik, which is a good thing, since the girls lack the requisite ID papers to enter their homeland. Fearing problems at checkpoints if we go to Kentung by road...
...when it was one of the most important trading cities in Asia. Established as the royal capital in 1350, Ayuthaya was the center of Thai culture, wealth and religion for more than 400 years, and home to more than 1 million people by the time of its fall to Burma...
...communists swept to power in 1949, more than 12,000 troops from the 3rd and 5th armies of the kmt fought their way out of Yunnan province while their compatriots hot-footed it to Taiwan. The dedicated troops set up a makeshift camp deep in the jungles of northern Burma, and for the next 12 years waged a vicious, opium-funded guerrilla war against the armies of both communist China and Burma. They were gradually pushed south until, battle weary and demoralized, they sought sanctuary in neighboring Thailand. About 4,000 men, under General Tuan Shi-wen, settled in what...
...message that hasn't reached most Chinese, who feel ambivalent about America after decades of anti-U.S. propaganda. The mixed emotions are apparent countrywide, even in a market in the city of Kunming, near Burma, where a vendor who usually sells parakeets and potted flowers now offers more contemporary ware?a ceramic model of the Twin Towers spouting flames and another of Osama bin Laden gripping a Kalashnikov. But he sells another sentiment as well. "Are you American?" he asks. "I've got your flag, too." Sure enough, he points to Old Glory hanging next to a mask...