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...bulwark of developing Asian economies?the country seems to be giving away any competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
...says. But the company has been gradually shifting production elsewhere. In 1998, Indonesia accounted for 34% of Nike's total footwear output; this year that share will be in the "high 20s," according to Helzer. Meanwhile, Vietnam has skyrocketed from zero in 1995 to about 15% of production and Thailand's share has increased to about 15%. China remains the heavyweight, accounting for nearly 40% of production this year. In Indonesia, "We didn't see a whole lot of room for growth," Helzer says...
...scene of the crime, if you will?was essential to the film's emotional veracity. (The first, 1958 version of The Quiet American, with Michael Redgrave as Fowler and war hero Audie Murphy as Pyle, was also shot partly in Vietnam.) "I've seen Vietnam pictures shot in Thailand and the Philippines," says Caine, "but you never get those incredible mountains and mists. In our film, you see those and you are immediately in Vietnam...
...traveled the world eating spicy food. I’ve trekked through the jungles of Thailand, rafted the rivers of Vietnam and climbed mountains (albeit small ones) in India. I’ve endured multi-course repasts of food so inundated with chiles that most of my fellow diners surrendered in pain. I’ve fearlessly sought out the incendiary spices of street food, despite repeated guidebook warnings. And not only have I survived, but I’ve enjoyed it. Nothing has been too hot for me—until now. After circumnavigating the globe...
...attempted strikes against Indonesian Christians and Western interests in Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore, has roots that date back to the 1970s. Islamist groups who dreamed of an Islamic state centered in Indonesia - whose 90 percent Muslim population makes it the world's largest Muslim nation - stretching from southern Thailand and Malaysia all the way to the southern islands of the Philippines eventually found their way into a global "jihad" movement when some went to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, Jemaah is believed to have made common cause with al-Qaeda. Now that...