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Burma, a country of about 45 million between Thailand and India in southeast Asia, has been under military rule for the past 34 years. The present military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), killed an estimated 10,000 nonviolent democracy demonstrators when it came to power in 1988. The SLORC has been repeatedly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Australia for its rampant human rights abuses and is widely considered one of the most oppressive regimes in the world...
...intensive education programs targeted at the highest-risk groups; sadly, not everyone learned from this, as McFadden's piece and the elevated rates among heterosexuals indicate. The rest of the world has not been so lucky; new subtypes of HIV-1 in are erupting in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Thailand, spreading primarily among heterosexuals according to Monty Montano at the School of Public Health...
...arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking cartels. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gelbard told reporters that...
...safe-sex campaign aimed at prostitutes has worked. The rate of HIV INFECTION among young men in Thailand, home to one of the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemics, is half what it was in 1991. That's when the government unleashed a media blitz and began providing condoms to brothels...
...eight glorious weeks, students travel from around the globe--Mexico and Peru, France and Belgium, Germany and Denmark, China and Japan, Thailand and South Korea--to Harvard for summer school to learn English or improve the English they already know. They enthusiastically leave their comfort zones to live in Cambridge, a foreign land with foreign food and foreign people...