Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to health experts, you will be inhaling the equivalent of 80 cigarettes. It is no surprise, then, that an estimated 32,000 people in Southeast Asia are suffering from smoke-related illnesses, as the whole region chokes under the weight of the smog caused by hundreds of Indonesian forest fires. The fires created a dense blanket of smoke over Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. There is a state of emergency in several major cities. Schools and hospitals have been closed. In places such as Sarawak, you can barely see 40 feet in front...
...real tragedy is that this crisis was avoidable. Far from being acts of God, the forest fires were set by Indonesian lumber and plantation companies who were trying to clear land. Indonesia's government could do little more than apologize to its neighbors. They might have to try a bit harder: the monsoon rains, which would douse the fires and cleanse the air, have been delayed by the El Nino climate system, and do not appear to be due for another month...
Democrats get a turn at bat tomorrow when John Glenn and Co. tackle a fishy $50,000 donation to Republicans from an Indonesian-owned company...
...Arkansas lawyer emerged from the sidelines of Donorgate last week when the Senate hearings put a spotlight on his frenetic lobbying to land a Democratic fundraising job for Huang, Lippo's favorite son in the U.S. But investigators tell TIME that Giroir played a more pivotal role for the Indonesian conglomerate in its quest for influence in Washington: after securing Lippo as a $3 million investor in his company, Giroir contributed a total of $175,000 to the Democrats...
...unholy liaison between foreign dollars and diplomacy began as a small, quiet meeting in the Oval Office. Standing before Bill Clinton on a September morning in 1995 were James Riady, the suave Chinese-Indonesian financier who was pushing to keep U.S. trade lines to China open; and Huang, networker par excellence, offering to raise money for the Democratic National Committee from Asian Americans he thought were good for $7 million...