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...reporter for TIME, by Cambodian officials after being detained for more than 36 hours for alleged "human trafficking" while reporting on Montagnard refugees; in Ratanakiri province. Doyle, along with another journalist and a human-rights worker, was held by military authorities in northeast Cambodia, where hundreds of Montagnards fleeing Vietnam are attempting to reach the safety of a shelter provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, best-selling author and veteran foreign correspondent for Der Speigel, who covered Vietnam, Cambodia and China in the early Deng Xiaoping era; in Florence, Italy. In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, the Italian-born Terzani detailed his adventures in 1993, when he traveled Asia by land and sea after receiving a warning from a Hong Kong mystic that he might die in an airplane crash that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...Indeed, authorities throughout Asia have discovered how difficult it can be to persuade motorists to obey the rules of the road or to take even the most obviously beneficial safety precautions. In Vietnam, where 95% of the vehicles on the road are motorcycles, helmets are mandatory. Yet only 3% of riders wear them, according to the WHO. Riders contemptuously refer to helmets as "rice cookers," too uncomfortable to wear in the country's steamy weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Streets | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...violence in March that killed almost 50. No Going Back SOUTH KOREA More than 450 North Koreans arrived on two flights, in what was thought to be the largest defection from the repressive state. Pyongyang accused Seoul of kidnapping its citizens, who travelled into the South via China and Vietnam. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K.... Ring Fenced Bounty hunters were barred from a nature reserve near Liverpool after newspaper reports claimed the fiancé of English soccer star Wayne Rooney had flung her $46,000 engagement ring into the bushes after a row over the player's alleged infidelity. The National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 8/1/2004 | See Source »

...more fiery version of what has become one of his trademark moves, Kerry used his Vietnam experience as a platform on which to attack President Bush...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ready To Serve | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

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