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...maybe even unhelpful situation." For the moment, Europe seems to be taking a back seat to Asia. Mark Malloch Brown, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, said the U.N. had commitments for 3,500 additional troops to deploy within the next two weeks, with firm promises from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal. But Europe will likely get on board soon. On Friday, Italy's government formally agreed to participate once there are precise rules of engagement. "We don't hide the difficulties," said Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, "but our country has to respond to the United Nations' appeal...
...emerging markets generally goes something like this. As economies in certain countries (China, India) take off, others that are rich in natural resources (Brazil, Chile) get pulled along when commodity prices shoot through the roof. Meanwhile, as many countries undergo structural changes, like floating their currencies (South Korea, Indonesia), the idea of investing in places that come with some pretty scary memories (the 1980s Latin American debt defaults, the 1997 East Asian financial crisis) becomes remarkably more palatable...
...Korean or Taiwanese executives can aver, whisky doesn't merely enjoy a healthy market across large swathes of Asia - it boasts armies[an error occurred while processing this directive] of well-informed connoisseurs. Head south, however, and aficionados are thinner on the ground. The Islamic countries of Malaysia and Indonesia are hardly big-drinking nations (and when they do imbibe, the preferred drinks tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different - and yet it recently became home to a branch of La Maison...
...Plenty of factory owners feel less constrained. Garment makers and other low-tech manufacturers are increasingly shifting production from Shenzhen to cheaper locales, often the poor provinces of western China or, on occasion, other Asian countries like Indonesia and Vietnam. When companies moved into Shenzhen, "they never thought they'd have to leave a few years later," says Ruby Zhu, senior China economist for the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce...
...shutting the sites down is a "double-edged sword." As a former U.S. counterterrorism official, he sees the value of keeping the sites up so intelligence services can collect "forensic" evidence. "It's important to see what they are saying," he says, noting that Hizballah has resource bases in Indonesia and the tri-border area (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) of South America. Given Hizballah's links to Iran, which offers its operatives diplomatic cover around the world, according to Burton, monitoring Hizballah's Internet presence is vital as part of the "cat and mouse" game with Western intelligence. But shutting them...