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...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: A Bittersweet Victory Hong Kong: Muddy Waters India: Reverse Charge Milestones Verbatim Letters...
...fairyland, as in an inaccurate reference to "religious police" in Bali arresting people on the streets during Ramadan?apparently a confusion of the Muslim fasting month with the Balinese Hindu feast of Nyepi, a single day of sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: A Bittersweet Victory Hong Kong: Muddy Waters India: Reverse Charge Milestones Verbatim Letters...
...remarkable unrestraint, these creditors pushed questionable loans on developing countries. Prominent among the loan recipients were a cast of unscrupulous dictators who used the easy cash to pad their Swiss bank accounts and repress their own citizens. Selfless leaders like Mubutu of Zaire, Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto of Indonesia, and Idi Amin of Uganda may no longer be in power, but thanks to the debt they incurred their legacies live...
...rate (neighboring Singapore's treatments cost twice as much), Malaysia's wards now proffer everything from laparoscopic surgery to liposuction. And patients are flocking: the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM) claims that in 2002 nearly 85,000 medical tourists checked themselves in to Malaysian clinics, mostly from Indonesia and other Asian countries but also many from Europe. "We're multicultural and multilingual," says the association's Datuk Dr. Ridzwan Bakar. "And we're the most competitively priced country in the Asia-Pacific region, bar India...