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...high-technology components have been hammered by the Silicon Valley bust. Japan's recession removes another potential buyer of Asian goods. Reform programs that followed the financial crisis of 1997-98 have stalled, leaving many banks and corporations heavily indebted. Political instability has hurt prospects for the Philippines and Indonesia...
...they try to avoid. The overcrowding and bottlenecks are at their worst in Asia, the destination of choice since Wheeler and his wife Maureen released the first Lonely Planet book, Across Asia on the Cheap, in 1973. A well-worn trail links beaches in Goa (India), Boracay (Philippines), Bali (Indonesia) and southern Thailand and the peaks of Yangshuo (China) and Kathmandu (Nepal). In such numbers, backpackers can't help but trample culture and nature, whatever their environmental beliefs. "They tend to be like sheep, all going to the same places," admits Tony Wheeler. "That is a negative...
...known as Tianfei for protection at sea. Spiritually fortified, they boarded their ships, which would head down the Liu Creek to the Yangtze River and eventually into the open seas. With Tianfei's blessing, Zheng He and his men spent two years at sea, landing at present-day Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and, eventually, India. Over the next 28 years, Zheng He's flotilla embarked on six other grand voyages. It was an unprecedented massing of naval power. The ships, described collectively as "swimming dragons," boasted as many as nine masts apiece; and the largest could hold 1,000 people...
...late 1970s and reckons he has taken 20 ships since. He and his crew are from the coastal villages of the Sangir Islands, thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could...
...years. At least 160 people died in flash floods and mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran, too, suffered death and destruction, with some 30 people perishing as torrential rain and hailstorms struck Ardebil province in the northwest. INDONESIA The Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted him out of office on charges of corruption and incompetence. Once the Assembly removed Wahid as President, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in to succeed...