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...what they cost in the West. Lucky and Flo, too, nosed their way to back-street shops that hawk bootleg films. But unlike the average Western tourist, this American duo was there to bust, not buy. The pair of black Labradors, who arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in March, are the first dogs specifically trained to sniff out DVDs and, thus, lead investigators to any hidden caches of pirated material...
...Lucky and Flo did not disappoint. During their five-month mission in Malaysia, their detective work helped unearth $6 million in pirated DVDs and led to the arrests of 26 people. One bust targeted a bootleg-DVD factory near Kuala Lumpur that Malaysian officials estimate could have produced 60,000 copies...
...copyright protection, Malaysia still consistently features on the U.S. government's piracy watch list. Local officials report that 2,000 raids were carried out last year across Malaysia, netting 5 million counterfeit DVDs. Lucky and Flo's effort will likely boost this year's bootleg count. But walking around Kuala Lumpur during the dogs' visit, I saw little evidence that video pirates were running scared. Vendors openly hawked copies of recent Hollywood hits along with popular films from India's film industry, Bollywood. Many of the covers featured misspellings - Judd Apatow's Knicked Up, anyone? - but at $3 each...
...KUALA LUMPUR Raucous celebrations of Iraqi soccer victory...
...years ago a financial typhoon known as the Asian Crisis smashed into Bangkok. Over the next 15 months it swept through Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Seoul. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those...