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...Since the postwar years, Hong Kong had a virtual monopoly on producing entertainment for the entire Chinese-speaking world. All that changed in 1997. The Asian financial crisis dried up film financing and permanently damaged the city's vital Asian markets; those of some countries, like Indonesia's, have never recovered. The introduction of VCDs and DVDs, legitimate and not, ate into box office. Fewer Asians were willing to shell out $7 to watch a Hong Kong film with sub-Hollywood production values when they could cheaply get their fix at home. With box office disappearing, the only sure money...
When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...kept growing, and growing, and growing. When George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001, the Asian financial crisis was still a fresh memory. Now, India and China are two of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and both of them are developing geopolitical ambitions to match. Indonesia?the quintessential Asian basket case just eight years ago?last year celebrated the cleanest election it has ever had, and can at last look forward to playing a role in the region commensurate with its size. While the U.S. was otherwise engaged, Asians set down markers that whatever the world...
...acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist complete, all you need to do is choose your summit. Here are four of our regional favorites: Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October...
...stupid. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and was dean and professor of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Also, he has dealt with other countries before. As Bush pointed out, “he was Ambassador to Indonesia,” so it’s not like he has never seen a developing country before...