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...third country to acknowledge the presence of bird flu (after South Korea and Japan) in December, had outbreaks as far back as July. Birds started dropping dead in Thailand in early November, but the government insisted until last week that the chickens merely had a bacterial ailment. Heavily populated Indonesia has been hard hit but refused to cull any of its flocks until last week...
...parliamentary majority. Orange Action VIETNAM In the first formal claim for damages of its kind, three victims of Agent Orange filed a lawsuit in a New York City court against 10 U.S. manufacturers of the defoliant, which was used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Double Blow INDONESIA A second powerful earthquake in as many days hit the country's remote eastern Papua province. Casualty estimates for the second quake weren't immediately available, but scientists measured it at 7.1 on the Richter scale, higher than the initial temblor, which left more than two dozen dead. Let the People...
...TIME reporter bought Samurai from a stall along Taweewong Road in Phuket, Thailand. "We've had Last Samurai for three days already," said vendor Nook (not his real name). At his booth, just 50 yards from an official Warner Bros. store, Samurai was available with Thai, Chinese or Bahasa Indonesia subtitles. Business has improved, Nook says, since police stopped shaking him down for a monthly $60 payoff. Now he pays just $150 a year for an official ID card. Piracy has become so normalized that it has its own bureaucracy. Two days later, a reporter bought Samurai in Shanghai...
Awaiting my turn at Immigration, I mentally inventory elements of my story that could be misinterpreted: my father is Pakistani, my passport is full of multiple visas to Pakistan, I've made occasional visits to Indonesia--would they believe I went just to the Hindu island of Bali? No, that poses its own problems. Even the book I carry--Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl?--begins to worry me. I reassure myself that at least I hold a British passport, but then I recall that both Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, and Omar Sheikh, Pearl...
Also, in a time when fear of terrorism is widespread, ships--unlike hotels--can take advantage of their mobility, shifting routes away from geopolitical hot spots. Since Sept. 11, cruises through the Suez Canal or to countries like Indonesia have been replaced by trips to Alaska, the Caribbean and South America. There is also an increase in "home porting," which means cruise ships stop at smaller U.S. ports to pick up passengers who can drive there instead of taking a flight. Some 30 U.S. cities now operate as cruise-ship gateways, including Baltimore, Md.; Galveston, Texas; and Mobile, Ala.--roughly...