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...devout explorer of the reality in which we live, so this is by no means my first exploration - but it?s a big one. It?s the biggest. But I still have on my list visiting disappearing indigenous populations around the globe, which I have yet to do, and Southeast Asia is still an area to me which is largely unexplored, and I still have a lot of things in the deep oceans that I hope to do. Plus, you know, I hope this isn't my only spaceflight...
...polls will be part of the regime's seven-point "Roadmap to Democracy." Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been ruled by a series of repressive military regimes since 1962. Classified by the United Nations as among the world?s least developed countries, the agrarian nation in southeast Asia is still recovered from May's Cyclone Nargis, which killed an estimated 80,000 people and devastated the country?s rice-growing region. Almost none of those released, however, were political prisoners, of which Amnesty International estimates there are about 2100 in the country. Win Tin said he complained to prison...
...After receiving nearly 7,000 entries from 26 countries, SIPF whittled down the selection to just over 800 works by 66 photographers, both established and emerging. More than half hail from Southeast Asia. "There was a lot of debate, but the huge quantity and variety was a blessing," says Terence Yeung, one of SIPF's four curators. "The very best images stood...
...through Galveston Island and Houston on Friday. Akinfenwa found himself unable to contact his family when 110-mile-per-hour winds disabled most means of communication in and outside of the city. Not until Monday night did he finally get through to his family and hear they were safe. Southeast Texas may be almost 2,000 miles away from Cambridge, but for some Harvard students from the Lone Star state including Akinfenwa, Hurricane Ike was more than just a big weekend news story. Roberta V. Steele ’09 also spent much of Friday and Saturday unable to talk...
Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food (TPS)--based in Solo, an industrial city about 300 miles (480 km) southeast of Jakarta with some 700,000 inhabitants--is one of the beneficiaries of the program. The noodle factory employs 3,500 and estimates its annual sales at $50 million. One of the country's largest producers of rice vermicelli, egg noodles and wheat biscuits, TPS saw its production drop about 20% after the fall of Suharto as wheat prices doubled. TPS vice president Budhi Istanto, whose family started the business in 1959, credits IRD with helping the company "get back to its optimal...