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...much? Most looked at me blankly; they were far too preoccupied with feeding their surviving family members and burying the dead to consider such existential musings. One or two even grew angry. Was I saying God had punished Aceh? Wasn't Aceh famous as the cradle of Islam in Southeast Asia? Wasn't it known worldwide for the deep religious belief of its inhabitants? "If anything," an elderly man named Marzuki told me, gesturing to the vista of flattened buildings that stretched away for miles around us, "all this is because we weren't religious enough. We must always have...
...Last week, those two nations surprised the world with an alternative planet-saving scheme at a location seemingly chosen at random. On the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer unveiled the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a six-nation initiative that was pulled together in behind-the-scenes diplomatic talks over the past six months. The other countries taking part?China, India, Japan and South Korea?are responsible for 48% of the world's greenhouse...
Bois said that the department still seeks to fill endowed chairs in Spanish and South and Southeast Asian art, and to hire for positions in seventeenth-century European and pre-Columbian art and modern architecture...
...leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, has again put the spotlight on the repression practiced by the regime. Recent bomb attacks by unknown perpetrators in Rangoon and Mandalay have killed and injured scores of people. Unprecedented pressure exerted by other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations means Burma is unlikely to take its turn chairing ASEAN in mid-2006. The purge of Prime Minister and intelligence chief Khin Nyunt last October on corruption charges has caused hairline cracks to appear in a seemingly monolithic military, and the cease-fires he brokered with more than...
...junta in 1989 in return for keeping the peace. It also kept its weapons and, free to run its home region as a semi-autonomous state, expanded its trade in heroin?the Wa hills are opium-growing territory?and later in methamphetamines. Today, the U.W.S.A. is one of Southeast Asia's largest drug-trafficking organizations, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which in January indicted eight senior Wa officials in absentia on narcotics charges. By forcing its impoverished people to migrate, and through military action, the U.W.S.A. has greatly increased its influence over other parts of Shan state, particularly...