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...undeniable thrill in gazing out over the looping red ribbons of the Mekong and its tributary, the Ruak, and being able to see not one but two other countries, where vast stands of golden teak shimmer and hint at mysteries within. But it's a thrill tempered by the riot of ugliness erupting all around, and the creeping fear that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit Nike clothing shipped down...
...hundred ex-spies demanding compensation and official recognition set fire to canisters of liquefied petroleum gas at a busy intersection in Seoul. Angry protesters wearing red headbands held another demonstration in front of the Ministry of National Defense earlier this month, including a man who stripped in front of riot police. Another protester, Kim Su Chan, said the government harassed him for years after he got back from North Korea, where he spent two months gleaning information from officials by pretending he wanted to work for Pyongyang. Now a grizzled and embittered 80-year-old, Kim lives in an abandoned...
...holds a microphone. Burma's cultural input is zealously monitored and artistic expression heavily censored. Musicians are controlled right down to the length of their hair. Outdoor concerts are seldom allowed, and order is always maintained?tonight in Taunggyi by platoons of soldiers, cops and the white-helmeted riot squad...
...polling stations, including mobile booths at bazaars, bus stops, airports, offices, even prisons. At a rally in Peshawar last week, the nearest Musharraf supporters?including his own government officials?were kept 50 m away from the elevated stage, which was surrounded by commandos brandishing automatic rifles. Riot police were poised to charge, but the crowd was docile. Most had been carted in by local officials who had lured them with promises of dinner or of passing on to Musharraf requests for help. "Just see the love for our President!" gushed one booster. But the crowd merely cheered...
India and Pakistan blame each other's spies for just about everything that goes wrong. If there's an outbreak of plague or a riot, it's the work of the sinister "foreign hand." Indians are certain, for instance, that Pakistan's secret service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, masterminded the December attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Do they have any concrete evidence? "Zilch," concedes an Indian official. "Quite honestly, we only know they are involved by implication." Equally, the Pakistanis are convinced that agents of India's secret service, the Research and Analysis Wing...