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Most recently Rubin and the Treasury Department have spearheaded the International Monetary Fund's bailout of South Korea and the nations of Southeast Asia...
...April 25, 1971, 250,000 demonstrators marched on the Capitol to protest U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. In what are known as the May Day protests, demonstrators attempt to use civil disobedience to shut down the Washington...
...industry took off in the 1970s. They are laying off staff members, canceling routes and airplane orders, and cutting back on in-flight food and beverage services. Even in economically buoyant China, the going is no longer as good as it was. The Middle Kingdom relies heavily on Southeast Asian foreign investment, and industry insiders fear losing business to countries with plummeting currencies and better bargains. Frets Dominic Wong, general manager of the Holiday Inn Downtown in Beijing: "This year will be very tough...
...forest fires raging on the island of Borneo have been giving Southeast Asians alarming flashbacks to the Great Haze of 1997. In some ways this year's blazes, stoked by the drought caused by El Nino, have been even worse, spreading into remote reaches of the virgin rain forest. Since January, hundreds of fires have claimed 700,000 acres of woodland, casting a pall of smoke over the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. While recent rains have quenched many of the fires, the situation remains volatile. Moreover, the whole world may feel...
...What the man behind Joe Camel meant, perhaps, was discussions with American people who happen to be tobacco farmers. R.J. Reynolds and four other cigarette manufacturers held a closed-door meeting on the settlement Thursday with 120 growers from across the Southeast. Ordinary folk in the region haven't been forgotten: They've been saturated with TV commercials telling them why Senator McCain's tobacco bill is bad for the country. Since Goldstone and his counterparts saved a potential $500 billion by welshing on the deal, it seems they can afford to make such "discussions" a little one-sided...