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...security: the Iraqi economy has declined 22 percent this year. The Labor Ministry estimates that 12 million Iraqis—fully 70 percentof the country’s workers—are unemployed. Meanwhile, the U.S. and other foreign corporations and contractors have been importing cheap labor from Southeast Asia to work on the rebuilding of Iraq, since Iraqi workers “are more vulnerable to bad guy influence,” as The Financial Times detailed last Tuesday...
...toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes with every...
...DIED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 32, Indonesian militant and fugitive bombmaker shot dead by police; in Pigkawayan, Cotabato, the Philippines. Al-Ghozi, a member of the Southeast Asian militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, had been on the run since July, after escaping from a Philippine maximum-security prison while serving a 10-year jail term for explosives possession. He was also a suspect in the December 2000 bombing of a Manila train station in which 22 people died. Philippine police said al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout. Authorities denied allegations from leftist militants and some politicians that the fugitive...
...APEC Leaders' Summit in Bangkok has provided the perfect stage for Thaksin to flaunt his success and build his growing reputation as the most dominant leader in the region. Since taking office in February 2001, the billionaire telecom tycoon turned politician has presided over the fastest-growing economy in Southeast Asia. Last year Thailand's GDP rose 5.2%, and it's on track to expand 5.8-6.2% this year thanks to sizable increases in exports and domestic spending. The Thai stock market, meanwhile, has soared 67% so far this year, and property demand in the nation's cities has reached...
Fancy a hip replacement and an Asian vacation? With bargain prices, a wealth of medical specialists and alluring post-op locales, Southeast Asia has proved irresistible to ailing tourists. Singapore entered the clinical fray about a decade ago, followed by Thailand a few years later; now Malaysia is on the health-tourism bandwagon...