Word: thailand
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Ultimately, many Burmese hope for a gradual return to civilian rule, with the military taking a backroom power- and money-sharing role, as it does in Thailand and Indonesia. But everything depends on Suu Kyi. Now she is free to walk from the house that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that...
...Manchurian Candidate." The former POW voices an argument that is not widely understood in the U.S.: Vietnam today is valuable as a strategic counterbalance to China. Hanoi has just joined as a fully paid-up member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a bloc of such countries as Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines that banded together in 1967 under the threat of Vietnam's conflagration and China-aided communist insurgencies. These neighbors, edgy of late about China's new military strength, see Vietnam as a keystone to regional stability. The U.S., while not wishing to antagonize Beijing, agrees...
WorldTeach was founded by a Harvard student who spent a year teaching in a rural Kenyan school in 1987. The program now coordinates programs in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Poland, Thailand and Mexico...
...Billy Hendon, a onetime Republican lawmaker from North Carolina who had briefly handcuffed himself Saturday to the gate of a U.S. office in Hanoi that deals with MIA reports. Though no U.S. official has publicly given credence to reports of MIAs still held captive, Hendon says a contact in Thailand told him an intelligence source saw the prisoners in February. He refused to disclose details, saying he wants to lead investigators to the facility himself. "I came here today to take the experts to the exact point where the Americans are being held," Hendon said. "Nothing political, purely humanitarian...
DIED. TERESA TENG, 43, Taiwanese pop singer; after suffering an asthma attack in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Though Beijing banned her Mandarin love songs as "spiritual pollution" in the 1980s, fans snatched up recordings smuggled in through Hong Kong; it was said that "Little Teng" was more popular than "Old Deng" Xiaoping...