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...Analysts now are cutting their forecasts. Chatib Basri sliced his 2003 GDP forecast from 4.4% to 3.7%. (The World Bank estimates that Indonesia needs at least 6% growth to create enough jobs for its burgeoning workforce.) Daniel Lian, an economist at investment house Morgan Stanley, says economic revival throughout Southeast Asia could be jeopardized if investors shun the region. As a result, he says, "Economies would be further marginalized and geopolitical risks raised in a vicious cycle...
...week in which horror was both commonplace and elusive. Bombs exploded all over Southeast Asia; 189 died in an explosion Bali, and six were killed and 144 more injured in another terrorist act in the Philippines. No one has been charged in either case. The Washington gunman continues to snipe away; he's such a shadowy figure that even the few eyewitnesses to his murders have been so completely unable to reach any kind of consensus about he looks like that police would not release a sketch. The culprits in all these acts wreak havoc only to vanish...
Without a doubt, this past weekend’s terrorist bombing in Indonesia reveals the continued threat posed by al Qaeda cells, especially in Southeast Asia. The Staff is right to say that the U.S. military should keep aggressively pursuing bin Laden’s network...
Maybe the FBI and al-Qaeda should coordinate a frequent flyer program. Last week yet another alleged al-Qaeda sympathizer in Southeast Asia was handed over to American officials and sent packing to the U.S. on a military plane. Slight difference this time: the suspect is an American. U.S. authorities claim Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, who was deported from Malaysia on Oct. 11 after his passport was revoked by Washington, is part of a six-person al-Qaeda terror cell based in Oregon. The group is alleged to have "conspired to wage war" against the U.S., most notably when five...
...Millions of others are being taken on the same ride. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue infects more than 100 million people a year?and the mosquito-borne sickness is on the rise. Once confined to tropical regions like Southeast Asia, 100 countries are now classified as dengue risk areas, up from nine prior to 1970. "Dengue is being seen in places it hasn't been seen before," says Dr. John Simon, a tropical disease specialist in Hong Kong, where a furor over the fever has been roiling local newspapers since the first locally contracted case was reported...