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...Hester Chew, managing director of Tricon's Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia units, is the loyal soldier assigned the job of vanquishing Heinecke. The only painting in Chew's Sukhumvit Road office is a portrait of the ranking officer of the fast-food business, Colonel Sanders. Behind Chew's desk, left over from a KFC-Star Wars promotion, looms a 6-ft. tall statue of Darth Vader wielding his laser. Chew, a former lieutenant in the Singapore army, talks about being a "general'' in this conflict. Still, he could be busted down to buck private if he loses...
RESIGNED. XANANA GUSMAO, 54, as President of East Timor's National Council, saying internal squabbling hampered the territory's transition to independence; in Dili. Gusm?o, who for many years led a guerrilla war against Indonesia and was widely tipped to become President, quit the defacto parliament after it refused to consult the people on the proposed new constitution. RESIGNED. RICHARD LEAKEY, 56, conservationist renowned for spearheading the fight against elephant poaching in Africa, as head of Kenya's civil service; in Nairobi. Leakey's appointment by President Daniel arap Moi in 1999 to tackle the country's endemic corruption...
This mad medicine is the same drug that's called shabu in Japan and Indonesia, batu in the Philippines and bingdu in China. While it has taken scientists years to figure out the clinical pharmacology and neurological impact of ecstasy and other designer drugs, methamphetamines are blunt pharmaceutical instruments. The drug encourages the brain to flood the synapses with the neurotransmitter dopamine--the substance your body uses to reward itself when you, say, complete a difficult assignment at the office or finish a vigorous workout. And when the brain is awash in dopamine, the whole cardiovascular system goes into sympathetic...
...agreement reflects the increasing politicization of the battle over AIDS drugs. Health ministers from countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, including India, Indonesia and Iran, on Tuesday also backed South Africa's legal battle against 39 pharmaceutical companies over the right to sidestep patents by importing generic drugs to fight the AIDS crisis. Challenging AIDS drug patents is fast emerging as the defining issue of a new Third World solidarity, although this time it's directed at improving their leverage in the world capitalist system rather than overthrowing...
Zecha never set out to create retreats for the rich. The descendant of a Czech-Indonesian family that acquired plantations in Indonesia in the 19th century, Zecha was educated in the U.S. and began his career in Asia as a journalist and publisher. In the early 1970s he helped found Regent International Hotels, but cashed out 13 years later. Shortly afterward he was looking to build a private holiday home for himself, his wife and son, when he stumbled upon the coconut plantation where Amanpuri sits today...