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...pushing to create a government in exile, and had little contact with the people in Vietnam itself. Some groups continued to advocate violence: As late as 2001, members of the California-based Government of Free Vietnam were convicted of plotting the attempted bombings of Vietnamese embassies in Bangkok and Manila...
Less than a week after a massive explosion in a central Manila mall killed 11 people and injured more than 100, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo went shopping. A delivery truck, its front end sheared off by the blast, still sat outside. Inside, a primly dressed Arroyo bought shoes, then toured the complex with a group of reporters. "See?" she told the crowd. "It's business as usual...
...Arroyo isn't just facing attack from sworn political enemies. Three prominent Catholic bishops have joined the chorus calling for her resignation, while the head of the country's influential Bishops' Conference charged her administration with "moral bankruptcy." Whisperings of an impending palace coup remain rampant among Manila's political observers. "I think the military will do a Thailand," says Harry Roque, an international-law professor at the University of the Philippines and a vocal Arroyo critic...
...billion luxury gaming resort will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers over the border, Kazakhstan is creating the "Las Vegas of the steppe" in Kapchagai and Shchuchinsk. Governments in Taiwan, Thailand and Japan are considering legalizing casinos. According to Merrill Lynch, gaming companies are expected to spend $71 billion in Asia over...
...Macau, the Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship's center is one of just three small organizations offering counseling to the city's growing number of gambling addicts. The only government-funded organization, the Resilience Centre, was launched two years ago and employs just three counselors. Last year, Recovery Circle, a Manila-based substance-abuse clinic, began hosting weekly Gamblers Anonymous meetings. The center has six counselors on staff, but on average, only 10-15 attend the meetings. "The public is not aware that [gambling addiction] is a disease. They think it's part of the culture," says acting executive director Milagros...