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...YORK CITY: Despite a record surge that saw markets in Hong Kong and Indonesia jump by more than 7 percent Wednesday, international money managers remain concerned about stability of economies throughout Southeast Asia, says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Last month's Thai currency crisis has International Monetary Fund managers sufficiently spooked to put the prospect of a major banking collapse in shaky Southeast Asian markets atop the agenda of this month's IMF meeting. "These countries aren't experienced in financial calamity," says Baumohl. "They really don't know how to protect themselves, and may not even have...
...famous week in 1992, he made $1 billion betting against the British pound, earning him the grudging title of the Man Who Broke the Bank of England. This summer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused him of being a criminal. He said Soros the speculator had attacked Southeast Asian currencies to punish their governments for admitting the Burmese military regime--which Soros the humanitarian opposes--to asean, a regional political and trade organization...
KUALA LUMPUR: He's already being hounded by the Russian Duma as a CIA spy. Now a group of southeast Asian countries want him prosecuted as a criminal. Has financier and philanthropist George Soros been speculating too much for his own good...
...never met Pol Pot, but I saw examples of his handiwork. In 1982, writing a story called "Children of War" for TIME, I visited the Khao I Dang refugee camp in southeast Thailand, across the border from Cambodia. There 40,000 Cambodians who had fled Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge awaited resettlement. They had made the camp into a village consisting of straw-roofed huts, gardens and wats...
...Glory." It is by no means a rerun of a familiar subject. Most of the world's major sculptural traditions are abundantly represented in American museums--Egyptian, ancient Greek, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Indian and Maya. Cambodian sculpture is the exception. Yet there is no doubt that in the small Southeast Asian kingdom between the 6th century and 16th century A.D., some of the greatest stone carving and bronze work in human history was made...