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...region as a whole as is the U.S., Europe or Japan. Merrill Lynch economist T.J. Bond, for example, notes that although 20% of Asia's recent export growth may have come from China, 22.7% came from Europe. Likewise, although exports to China from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand may have grown 30% in 2003, they still accounted for only 10.7% of those countries' total exports. "Of course a slowdown carries the risk of reducing exports to China," says Susan Adams, senior resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Vietnam...
...answer: globalization is not an irresistible force. In India, the prosperity that has accrued to those who are part of the global economy was not enough to secure a victory for the political party that had boasted of India's shining high-technology sector. In Liverpool, an attempt by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to purchase 30% of the club was-according to a poll in a local newspaper-opposed by 87% of the Reds' fans, who instead wanted the club's board to accept a rival offer from Steve Morgan, a local boy made good. (As TIME went...
Despite security warnings from his intelligence service and the fearful concerns of his wife and three children, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew to southern Thailand last week to deal with the aftermath of the April 28 bloodbath in which security forces killed 108 alleged Islamic militants. Hundreds of people turned up in the village of Wat Muang in Yala province, home to 17 of the Muslims who died that day, to see the tycoon turned politician console grieving relatives, hand out small amounts of cash, rice and washing detergent, and promise school scholarships to the children of those...
...year earlier, Turkish police had detained Azizi in Istanbul, along with fellow Moroccans Said Berraj and Salahedin Benyaich. All three men were released. Berraj is a suspect in the Madrid bombings; Benyaich has been jailed for his role in the Casablanca attacks last May. A Heavy Hand THAILAND The government denied security services had used excessive force in killing more than 100 mostly young suspected Muslim separatists who attacked security posts in the country's predominantly Muslim south. Thirty-two of the men died when troops besieged a mosque where they had taken refuge. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra rejected demands...
...have to take up the slack left by departing allies. When Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister held firm on his campaign promise to withdraw his 1,300 troops, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, which rely on the Spanish for command and control, decided to bug out as well. Thailand threatened to withdraw its aid workers if attacked, and even faithful Australia is down to 850 of the 2,000 troops it originally shipped over last year. Secretary of State Colin Powell called leaders of roughly half the 34 coalition countries to try to prevent further defections...