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...better place for all of us. Topics like these may not make for easy conversation, but it is the stories of people like Dr. Paul Farmer, whose goal is to provide first-class health care to the poor, and Cynthia Maung, who runs a medical clinic on the dangerous Thailand-Burma border, that give me hope for the future, not the big political visions of the White House. Thank you for giving a voice to those who are normally neglected by the media. That is what I call quality journalism. Morena Nannetti Munich I was inspired by your articles...
...Shadowy Cells Your notebook item "Outing Secret Jails" [Nov. 14] said the Washington Post reported that the CIA has held captured al-Qaeda members in covert detention centers in several East European countries as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Holding prisoners in secret and denying them recourse to judicial hearings in a timely fashion are more than appalling. The Bush Administration seems not to understand that if you want to "export" democracy, you need to act like a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Say all you want about the ends justifying the means, the reality...
...almost miraculous achievement, and one in which Lee and his colleagues take justifiable pride. It is, moreover, something that has been much admired, to the point of imitation, around the region. Asian leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra and Indonesia's Suharto may rarely have chosen to admit it, but their "economy first" strategy owes much to the intelligence of a Cambridge-educated lawyer who - he admits - was himself "distraught" when his island state found itself independent and alone. Above all, with their horror of chaos, luan, China's leaders have for three decades come...
...chest and scare the hell out of him. That's a difficult thing to live with right in the middle of Tiny Bubbles." ED BROWN, friend of Hawaiian singer Don Ho, on the crooner's heart problems. Ho is recovering from cardiac stem-cell therapy in Thailand...
...Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers and even antitank guns. Their easiest prey is the flotilla of fishing trawlers, ferries and small...