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...island of Mindanao remains troubled. A Muslim separatist rebellion has raged there for decades. Al-Qaeda members have roamed the island. Foreign businessmen and missionaries must constantly be on guard there against kidnappers. But Davao, a sprawling port city on the southern coast, has emerged as the exception?an oasis of peace in the middle of the Philippines' lush center of chaos...
Genial and plain-spoken, 69-year-old Prasarttong-Osoth attributes the company's success to its focus on tourism?especially to cultural destinations?courting the oft-sneered-at holidaymaker rather than the business traveler. "Tourists travel all week long," he says. "Businessmen are more demanding and can only travel a few days a week. Where's the money to be made in that?" On average, his flights are 75% full, and 93% of those passengers are international tourists. Tourists for whom Prasarttong-Osoth has great plans. As part of his Mekong region tourism development scheme, Prasarttong-Osoth has started building...
...assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett's focus on political symbiosis seems narrow. "You could say," he writes, "that Britain and Chile have acted as each other's political subconscious." It is arguably true that British businessmen gave Chile "its first harsh taste of international capitalism" and that, 100 years later, Pinochet's "refinement of the recipe" ended up "passing the flavor back" in the form of free-market Thatcherism. But Beckett takes no more than a fleeting glimpse at the U.S., which played a central role...
...that argument is harder to believe because of the Mahathir-Mokhtar connection, which looks very much like the so-called "crony capitalism" that stained Malaysia's economic credentials in the first place. In the 1990s, Mahathir's administration showered huge government contracts and favorable loans on a select few businessmen. The policy, which was designed to create a group of model entrepreneurs among the country's majority ethnic Malays, was criticized at home and abroad as opaque, unfair, hugely wasteful and largely ineffective. The 1997 crisis hit Mahathir's handpicked favorites particularly hard; their inefficiently run and deeply indebted companies...
...setting up their Moroccan cell. Al Tbaiti married another local girl, meaning that he and Alassiri could blend into Moroccan life by staying with in-laws in the teeming Rabat casbah rather than in hotels where they might have eventually attracted police attention. Frequenting mosques and masquerading as businessmen, the Saudis had Moroccan acquaintances provide phone cards and bank accounts for local communications and money transfers totaling thousands of dollars that could not be traced directly to them. All their communications with Al Qaeda commanders were done through e-mail exchanges from Internet cafes...