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...Harding has, perhaps, the longest experience in dealing with Japan's military of any operational commander outside Japan's shores. As deputy chief of logistics in the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cambodia (UNTAC), Harding met Japanese top brass in June 1992 at U.N. headquarters in Phnom Penh. The officers were planning one of Japan's first military detachments overseas since the conclusion of World War II. "They asked me a million questions all morning," he says. Four months later, a Japanese engineering unit of 600 men arrived with top-of-the-line equipment for road building in Cambodia. Harding describes...
...Japan's government has spent $80 billion in assistance on its Asian neighbors. It is Indonesia's third-largest donor, behind the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. It is India's largest bilateral benefactor. The roads, sewers and airport runways clearly benefit the countries - from China to Cambodia - where they are built, though the money too often has been tied to projects that go to big Japanese construction companies - the right hand paying the left. Still, says Lu Guangye, a senior research fellow with the China Institute for International Strategic Studies: "Japan cannot think that by offering...
...MILLION Amount spent each year by the U.S. on recovery operations in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia...
THAILAND, BURMA, CAMBODIA, LAOS AND CHINA On April 14 the sun passes from Pisces into Aries, beginning the Buddhist New Year. In ages past this was a time for spiritual cleansing, bathing elders and washing Buddha statues. But the oppressive heat of the dry season has prompted a revision to tradition. Now April 14-16 will see the world's biggest water fight as Southeast Asians from Phnom Penh to Phuket soak each other in three days of liquid lunacy, accompanied by dancing, feasting and singing. In Rangoon, stages erected along the streets are used to spray passersby. In Thailand...
...rather than spending the whole movie in the game's traditional green tank top and khaki shorts, Jolie goes through 13 costume changes, including an Eskimo parka and a monk's robe. While sweating it out on the steamy, mosquito-ridden Angkor Wat temple set in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jolie kept her irreverent sense of fun. "In some ways, it's a good job Billy's not here and I'm in a monk's costume," she said, referring to her husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton. "Otherwise we'd be out in those fields getting...