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...travelers demand the goods and services they have seen in foreign countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...
...dates that cloud U.S. military history, April 9, 1942, must rank as one of the most devastating. In the Philippines, with his troops racked by disease, surrounded and facing annihilation, U.S. Army Major General Edward King surrendered his 78,000 American and Filipino soldiers and 20,000 Filipino civilians to an overwhelming Japanese force...
...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...
...factories and women to work as sex slaves for its soldiers - is still palpably alive in no small part because Japan has done such a poor job exorcising the old demons. The apologies came too late and are too feeble. Japan didn't acknowledge it forced Korean, Taiwanese and Filipino women into sex slavery until 1993. Its courts are only now hearing cases of indentured workers from Korea and China, who stand little chance of winning any settlement; in April the Supreme Court rejected Korean forced laborers' pension claims. Mainstream politicians insist that Nanjing Massacre atrocities have been exaggerated. They...
...Roces argues that directors ought to be licensed and then fined if they make films deemed pornographic. This scares the movie crowd. "We're going back to a Jurassic period," says Joey Reyes, director of Live Show. Tight censorship may help kill off the Filipino movie industry, whose production slumped from 144 films in 1999 to only 84 last year. Local films are losing out against foreign blockbusters and video pirates. A case in point is Live Show: with all the buzz over its banning, many more Filipinos?including underage kids?are catching it on pirated videos than ever...