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...Suharto's lawyers continued to appeal the decision, however, all the way up to Indonesia's Supreme Court. There was no indication that the case had progressed, until yesterday. Press reports quoted a court spokesman in Jakarta as saying that the Supreme Court has ruled against TIME, awarding Suharto - who stepped down as President in 1998 and who, at age 86, is apparently in declining health - $106 million and calling for TIME to print an apology...
...Suharto denied the charges, and when he brought his lawsuit, many observers assumed that a foreign publication wouldn't be able to get a fair trial in Indonesia when it was up against a former President who had appointed the judges hearing the case. Yet the Jakarta court ruled that the article had been published in the public interest, a defense against defamation in Indonesia, and that Suharto had presented insufficient evidence to support his claims. The court also ruled that TIME had "covered both sides" in its article...
...difficult to implement. For one thing, even by the standards of most international groupings, where hot air outweighs actual action, APEC usually accomplishes little of substance, other than the traditional goofy closing photo of national leaders wearing the native dress of the host country. From rich Japan to impoverished Indonesia, APEC is too large and too varied to easily come to agreement on anything. "I don't think it's realistic to expect there will be any major reductions at APEC because different countries are always coming with different perspectives," says Jamie Metzl, executive vice-president of the Asia Society...
...part by Bush and other politicians who still insist that China must move first - and by an American electorate that still remains underwhelmed by the threat of climate change. But there's some hope that progress can be made even if the U.S. and China stay in their corners. Indonesia - the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, thanks to its rapid rates of deforestation - has just announced that it will host a meeting in New York City on Sept. 24 of eight countries with tropical rainforests, to discuss using the international carbon market to fund tree preservation. "Having the world...
...make, according to a Variety source, but made just over half of that at the box office. One way to cut down on costs is to decamp to Asia, where a large labor force with technical skills will work for less. More American filmmakers are flying to Thailand, Indonesia, and even China - where government guidelines are still a hindrance - to shoot films they might once have shot in California or Toronto...