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...imperative that Shinzo Abe, who will be elected as Prime Minister by the Diet this week, continues financial progress. While NPLs at the megabanks were down to 1.8% of total loans as of March, they remain at 4.5% at the regional banks. The latter lend almost as much as the big banks. Furthermore, NPLs have fallen partly because more than 26% of all loans charge an interest rate of less than 1% and 9% charge less than 0.5%. How will these borrowers fare as interest rates return to normal...
...before the scheduled resumption of anti-Thaksin protests similar to the ones that brought hundreds of thousands of people to Bangkok streets earlier this year. Plumber Somchai Nityomrath had planned to go to Wednesday's rallies but instead showed up at Government House on Tuesday night to lend support to the coup plotters inside. "I came because I'm so happy," he says. "The democratic process has been taken over by Thaksin, so it's time for the people to take back democracy with the military's help...
...nations on its flanks, Afghanistan and Iraq, where more than 160,000 U.S. troops hold a tenuous grip on local populations. Iran has already dabbled in partnership with warlords in western Afghanistan, where U.S. military authority has never been strong; it would be a small step to lend aid to Taliban forces gaining strength in the south. Meanwhile, Tehran has links to the main factions in Iraq, which would welcome a boost in money and weapons, if just to strengthen their hand against rivals. Analysts generally believe that Iran could in a short time orchestrate a dramatic increase...
...Egypt and Turkey. But many governments by now are loath to go along with anything that sounds like an extension of the Bush doctrine. "If you compare Hizballah to the forces that flew planes into the World Trade Center on September 11," says a French diplomatic official, "you may lend your arguments more force, but it may also start undermining your support and credibility with people who won't agree with that commingling." Plus, encouraging Israel's continued onslaught puts the U.S. in the position of being blamed for mounting Lebanese civilian deaths...
...buyout firms are back, and there are more of them. The new boom is being fed by low interest rates, a no-go stock market and banks eager to lend. CEOs are more willing to listen since stepped-up regulation and a focus on short-term performance has taken some of the allure out of running a publicly traded company...