Word: southeasterly
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...their recent trip to Malaysia, Lucky and Flo did what many visitors to Malaysia do. The Southeast Asian nation is one of the global centers for pirated DVDs, and tourists often load up on illegal copies of Hollywood blockbusters that are available for a tenth of what they cost in the West. Lucky and Flo, too, nosed their way to back-street shops that hawk bootleg films. But unlike the average Western tourist, this American duo was there to bust, not buy. The pair of black Labradors, who arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in March...
...President Bush] is in Sydney now, and this will be a topic of discussion, with Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and with President Hu of China, and, well, everyone that's there at APEC...
...well as the capital's main park and the National Cultural Hall, were all built with money given to the city by the Beijing government. More than 3,000 Chinese laborers are also busy constructing a national stadium, the centerpiece of Laos' debut as host of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games. "Laos is profiting from China's own development path," says Sun Lei, the president of the Lao-China Business Association and owner of the Mekong Hotel in downtown Vientiane. "Without China's help and advice, Laos would be much more backward...
...Southeast Asians are quite as sanguine about the flourishing trade. Memories of imperial domination still haunt Vietnam, which was colonized by China and repelled invading Chinese troops as recently as 1979. In Cambodia, many still remember the People's Republic's patronage of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, which oversaw the deaths of an estimated one-quarter of the population. And even in countries with less complicated historical ties to China, suspicions of an economic overpowering endure. Farmers in northern Thailand complain that they cannot compete with the influx of cheap Chinese-grown garlic, apples and onions. Even Thai customs...
...Mekong that will be built by two Chinese power companies. Another Chinese firm is conducting a feasibility study for a Mekong power project in Cambodia, in an area where other foreign companies have been reluctant to invest because of the adverse ecological impact. Several other Mekong tributary dams in Southeast Asia will be financed by China Exim Bank, the nation's largest credit agency, which has invested in power projects with the enthusiasm of the Great Depression-era U.S. government...