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...that it was releasing more than 9,000 inmates from its prisons. Why would one of the world's most reclusive and repressive regimes show such a forgiving side? The answer probably lay not in Rangoon but in Vientiane, Laos, host of this week's 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. The conclave is the international debut of Burma's new Prime Minister, General Soe Win. A reputed hard-liner, Soe Win has been accused by the U.S. State Department of direct involvement in a mob attack on Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader Aung...
...than 11,000 years ago (or so the legend goes) has spawned hundreds of books, placing it everywhere from Bolivia to Sweden to the Sahara. Here are five theories that have surfaced this year: NOVEMBER American architect turned mythologist Robert Sarmast announced last week that Atlantis lies off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon...
...does this matter? Consider, for example, Gruhl's question about the color of the Web. WebFountain helped illustrate how culture, language and context all come into play on the Internet: in the U.S. and Europe, most websites are blue; Southeast Asian sites are typically red or orange. For companies planning on selling products in, say, India or China, developing a lime-hued Web presence may not be the smartest investment...
Uncovering a new species was the last thing the scientists expected when they began excavating in Liang Bua. They were on the trail of H. erectus, which arose in Africa but had spread all the way to Southeast Asia by 1.8 million years ago (the celebrated Java Man was the first to be discovered). Previous excavations in central Flores had already uncovered primitive stone tools, dating to about 800,000 years ago, mixed in with fossils of an extinct species of dwarf elephant known as Stegodon...
...Japan won't be the only country suffering. In late October, India's central bank lowered its GDP growth forecast for the current fiscal year to a range of 6-6.5%, citing a mediocre monsoon season and high oil prices. Last year, the economy grew 8.2%. Southeast Asia, too, will see a decline, from 5.8% growth this year to 4.4% in 2005, according to Merrill Lynch. In Indonesia, the region's most populous country, hopes are running high that new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will push through tough reforms and woo back the investment needed to spur the sagging economy...