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SENTENCED Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, received three years in prison in Thailand for breaking strict lèse-majesté laws after insulting the Thai King in a self-published novel...
Around early December in eastern Bangladesh, hundreds of people boarded a few rickety wooden boats and embarked on a journey they thought would convey them to a better life. They would perhaps land on Thailand's southwestern coast and then seek work there or in the Muslim promised land of Malaysia. On Dec. 28, 98 of them were found drifting by India's remote Andaman Islands, starving and dehydrated, a picture of the hardship weathered by generations of boat people fleeing adversity only to fall into even greater trials...
...being housed at an Indonesian naval base. The refugees there claim Thai marines also cut them adrift after destroying the engines on their boats, and they managed to stay afloat by erecting sails made of plastic tarpaulin. Survivors from a second wave of refugees "pushed back" from Thailand - a contingent of some 580 - have also made their way to India's Andaman Islands. It is not known whether those who landed at Aceh were part of this same group. The front page of the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post on Jan. 15 displayed pictures snapped by an Australian...
...Rohingya don't have the kind of diaspora-based support groups that provide publicity and aid to some of Burma's other oppressed minorities. Their plight, though, may be a central issue at the next regional ASEAN Summit, which will take place at the end of February in Thailand. By then, observers hope the Thai government will employ different methods in tackling the problem. "Governments in the region need to put together a proactive plan to meet the needs of the Rohingya," says Garcia. "You can't literally make these people go away, as if they were less than human...
...credit-fueled housing bubble burst. Sound familiar? The result was Japan's infamous Lost Decade of little to no economic growth. And it was, in part, the withdrawal of Japanese capital from the region that helped set off the Asian crisis in 1997 and '98 - when countries from Thailand to Russia to Indonesia to South Korea devalued their currencies and saw their economies crash. The lesson for Geithner was clear. "From my time in Japan and then dealing with the crisis of the late '90s," he once told me, "I got a deep conviction: you don't want to dither...