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...nearly a decade. The Jakarta Stock Exchange index hit an all-time high in April and foreign-currency reserves are the largest ever at $37 billion. The economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2000, fueled in part by China's soaring demand for commodities?the 17,000-island archipelago is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, coal, palm oil and rubber. Global confidence in Indonesia's prospects has also improved somewhat. In March, the country successfully raised $1 billion in its first international sovereign-bond issue since the 1997 Asian crisis...
...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...nation, and Spain, a Christian one, are united in the fight against terrorism." Lost Opportunity CYPRUS Greek Cypriots ignored the pleas of the E.U., the U.N. and the U.S. and voted by a margin of three to one to reject a U.N. plan that would have reunited the divided island after 30 years of armed standoff. Turkish Cypriots backed the plan. Ankara announced that Turkish troops will now stay on the island indefinitely and called for international recognition for Turkish Cyprus as a separate state. Some Greek Cypriots voted against the plan because they feared investment in the less developed...
...very tight race to No. 1 Princeton (7:06.2) by less than two and a half seconds, but topped four other teams ranked in the top 10 by USRowing. The Black and White beat No. 3 Wisconsin (7:08.9), No. 4 Georgetown (7:15.3), No. 10 Rhode Island (7:18.7) and No. 6 Stanford...
Independence for Taiwan is a vexing issue for a variety of reasons. An often overlooked but profound problem concerns the ethnic groups living together on the island. The Democratic Progressive Party and the Kuomintang vie for votes from the Hakka, Taiwanese, mainlanders, aboriginal people and other groups, with generous promises of recognition and, in some cases, special treatment. But neither party has yet been able to define a common identity that all the people here can share. In Taiwan, identity comes before independence. PAUL OLIVER Chunglin, Taiwan