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...Secretary Nina S. Sawyer '01 said more of the groups are proposing joint events. She cited as examples a Southeast Asian cultural night, planned by four or five different cultural groups, as well as a joint event about the African diaspora...
...Once limited to a few countries in southeast Asia, the trade is going global, a byproduct of falling borders, the ease of international travel and, in Europe, the growing gap between rich and poor. Its impact is hard to overestimate, destroying families, fueling corruption and providing a fat new source of revenue for organized crime groups. But it is the degradation of human victims that has drawn the most attention. "This is more than a women issue," said a veteran U.S. investigator. "It's a political problem, an economic problem, a migration problem and most of all a question...
...prevent it from testing genetically modified cotton. In the Philippines, farmers have demonstrated against seed giants Monsanto and Dupont's field tests of Bt corn. And activists there point to Miracle Rice?a product of the Green Revolution in the '60s?as a cautionary lesson. Its wholesale adoption in Southeast Asia led to a rice monoculture, making crops more vulnerable to insect pests and disease, and more dependent on pesticides...
...crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region's criminal activity, supplying robbers in Johor Baharu, pirates preying on the cargo ships that chug through the narrow Strait of Malacca and, yes, traders and buyers say, the region's radical Islamic groups such as Abu Sayyaf, the Moro Islamic Liberation...
...Thailand. "There were 45 in my group alone, and there were many, many groups sent for training," he relates. "So if the police say there are 200 more KMM members out there I think they must mean only the leaders." Rahman advises that the world take the terrorists of Southeast Asia seriously. "They will not hesitate," he says, the strain of being on the run vibrating in his voice, "to kill or be killed for Islam...