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...suitcase of a Filipino Jesuit priest. Investigators eventually traced the fake bonds to a shantytown on the edges of Cagayan de Oro. There, in the home of a security guard named Archie Mingoc, police found a box containing $1.38 trillion in fake bonds and stacks of counterfeit Japanese, Malaysian and Argentinian currency. A raid on the home of his brother-in-law, Renato Waban, yielded an additional $773 billion in bonds. Mingoc swears Waban, who has since disappeared, asked him to stash the box. Police believe Waban, who flew from Cagayan de Oro to Manila twice a week, may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried Treasuries | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...History and Science and East Asian Studies concentrator will be in Kuala Lumpur until August working for the Malaysian AIDS Council working to develop programs to slow the spread of HIV and AIDS in Malaysia...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Named Academic All-Stars | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...needs a gun for protection. He starts to shout in Thai. Joe nods politely, putting to one side the 10 weapons he has selected. Smiling all the time, carefully avoiding eye contact with the colonel, Joe reaches into a waist pack and counts out a thick wad of Malaysian currency. "I won't bring her again, I promise. Here, this is 11,000 ringgit [$2,895], right?" The colonel stops his tirade and waves to the corporal, who takes the cash and laboriously counts it. "Next week," Joe says, accepting a Carlsberg from the colonel, who is now smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...latent menace, what happened at that army camp on the Thai-Malaysian border is mundanely commonplace. In Thailand and Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...amiable 30-year-old Malaysian with bloodshot eyes and a two-pack-a-day habit - knows what that means in the real world. As the jeep bumps down the earth road leading from the army camp, his mobile phone squawks. He answers, grunts a few times, then puts the phone down with a grimace. "I have to go to Indonesia tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

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