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...area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted in a single week. In an era of unprecedented global economic growth, the number of hungry people increased from 800 million to 830 million between 1996 and 2003. At current rates of logging, the natural forests of Indonesia and Burma will be gone within a decade or so. Each year the number of failing states increases - Sudan and Somalia today, perhaps Pakistan tomorrow - a trend that climate change will only worsen. Global demands on the Earth already exceed sustainable capacity by 25% - and we're set to add another...
...Pause. “...what he’s capable of.” So, it turns out that Rambo, like Rocky, ain’t dead yet. He’s living somewhere humid and foreign, and some well-meaning white folks want him to take them into Burma (unintentionally topical, no?) for humanitarian work. I guess things go awry, because pretty soon, we’ve got Sly narrating his own voiceover while huge, “2 Fast 2 Furious”-style drum machines pump us up. Dancing. Killing. Knifing. Explosions. Cobras. Running. Crescendos. Finally, Rambo?...
...dengue isn't going away. Across Southeast Asia, doctors and public-health officials are grappling with alarmingly high dengue-infection rates. Cambodia and Vietnam reported double the cases this year compared with last, and more than 400 deaths; Thailand and Burma each recorded roughly a third more cases in 2007. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the fourth consecutive year of unusually high rates in the region - and doctors are worried that global warming may be partially to blame...
Like the previous crackdown in 1988, the latest massacre in Burma remains shrouded in mystery. But there is a tragic changelessness in the scene of a crowd of unarmed people being gunned down by an army. From Jallianwala Bagh to Tiananmen to Rangoon, it must be the most frightful of all spectacles, as Churchill quoted Macaulay, to witness the strength of a civilization without its mercy. And to that we must add, without its memory...
Like China, the Indians want Burma’s oil and gas and its co-operation in combating anti-Indian insurgencies in North-Eastern states. But most importantly, India is jittery at China’s influence over Burma, especially its “string of pearls” policy of establishing bases around the Indian Ocean, including one allegedly on the Burmese island of Great Coco. India has countered this with its own weapon and radar sales, and training for the junta’s military...