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...trading that day, Leeson gathered up his notes, walked off the floor and began his getaway. By 11:30 that night, he was out of Singapore, checking into a hotel in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, 200 miles to the north. At 7 a.m. on Friday, his wife reportedly jumped into a cab and headed for the airport. In his wake lay a venerable 232-year-old British banking empire rendered suddenly and irretrievably insolvent; half the financial world was reeling in fear, the other half in astonishment. On his office desk was a handwritten note that said...
CHEERS WENT UP IN FUTURES MARKETS everywhere when the news broke of Leeson's detention in Germany last Thursday after his Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple...
...face of the bleak picture she painted,Heyzer at the same time emphasized the power whichgovernments can wield in achieving "genderjustice." The Malaysian government, Heyzer said,significantly improved the lives of females bydeveloping a policy to educate rural women. Whenwomen migrated to urban centers, she said, theirskills and education allowed them to be easilyintegrated into the formal workforce...
...without specifying how it will abide by Suriname's strict forestry code. Experts claim that the only profitable way to harvest MUSA's particular stretch of rain forest would be to clear-cut the region, leaving behind a wasteland. Other Asian interests have also put in timber bids. The Malaysian investment group Berjaya Group Berhad is trying to secure rights to 7.5 million acres in Suriname...
...former British colony, a victim of years of Marxist economics, is poorer than any other Latin American nation except Haiti and is staggering under a $2 billion foreign debt load, an amount 10 times its gross domestic product. In 1991 the government of President Desmond Hoyte granted a Malaysian-Korean joint venture called Barama Co. Ltd. the rights to log 4.2 million acres in the country's northwest. When voters elected former Marxist Cheddi Jagan as President in 1992, Guyanese conservationists urged him to revoke that concession; instead Jagan toured Southeast Asia at Barama's expense, and his government...