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As world oil prices creep past $60 a barrel, China has stepped up its search for proven reserves?witness state-controlled oil giant CNOOC's effort to acquire California-based Unocal over protests from U.S. politicians. On home soil, Beijing now battles its own people. More than 10,000 investors...
Filipinos have a schizophrenic view of their political leaders, from town mayors to provincial governors to Presidents. They must be generous patrons, doling out to people in need?as if they were benevolent Sultans with bottomless purses. But they must not be corrupt. In our personality-driven culture, clans and...
The backlash came quickly. Nationalists, who still dominate local media and politics, launched a vicious campaign against Natasa Kandic, the Serbian human rights activist who had uncovered the tape and given it to the Hague tribunal. Kandic, named as one of Time's Heroes in 2003 for her work exposing...
Even more graphic evidence of decadent splendor, Marcos-style, was afforded by a private collection of more than 500 videotapes unearthed in Manila and New York. In one of the tapes, taken by an exclusive presidential crew, Imelda cavorts with bejeweled guests in a private Malacaņang disco, complete with...
Born Nov. 9, 1934, in the provincial town of Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund...