Word: dictatorship
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...brought by tycoon Tomy Winata over a February 2003 story reporting rumors that Winata planned to open a casino in Central Sulawesi province despite laws against gambling; in Jakarta. The court ruling was seen by media groups as threatening press freedoms that emerged after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. The newspaper, which was ordered to pay Winata $1 million, said it planned to appeal...
...forced labor raise difficult questions. "Can a company invest in a country that is considered not democratic?" Dairon asks. "Should it substitute for international organizations in judging a country in the first place?" One manager suggests that Total has to publicize the positive things about investing in a military dictatorship: jobs, development, even the hope of change. Good point, Dairon says--and one that is a nonstarter for Total's critics, who can't see any good in making a deal with the devil. "We are a company of engineers," says Dairon. "We are very rational. Perhaps we work...
...Wen’s country is not a normal state. Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping famously announced that “to get rich is glorious,” Communist China has embraced a form of market economics, albeit a perverted one. But politically, it remains a Leninist dictatorship, one that routinely threatens a neighboring democracy (Taiwan) with nuclear destruction, harbors visions of regional hegemony in East Asia, brutalizes dissidents, religious minorities and even members of apolitical groups that it deems subversive and, as Howard intimated, maintains a vicious and culturally annihilative occupation of Tibet...
...JONG IL The overconfident pose, the fawning lackeys, the weird eyewear that suggests that no one can speak directly to him--the North Korean leader is a poster boy for dictatorship. Will U.S. troops one day roust a scruffy Kim out of a spider hole? For now Washington is trying diplomacy to persuade him to dismantle his nukes. But this doesn't look like a man who's eager to welcome U.S. weapons inspectors...
...past decade, to 1.9 million. The island, roughly the size of Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia and its pristine scuba-diving sites, Cuba was voted the best destination in the Caribbean by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine this year. Castro's dictatorship isn't exactly the stuff of tourist brochures, but the torrid cold war history shared by Cuba and the U.S. may be part of the attraction...