Bangkok’s Future Filled with Floods
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ROB CORBEN |
Thailand’s capital is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
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Weekly Business Roundup (November 21, 2009)
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WILLIAM BOOT |
Proposals by China to finance a railway 100 kilometers into northern Burma appear to be part of Beijing’s efforts to link its landlocked southwestern regions with the sea.
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JERRY HARMER |
| Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, the first high-ranking member of Cambodia's ousted regime to be tried for war crimes at a UN-backed tribunal. |
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 | One of the best steps that they (Burmese generals) could take to show that they are willing to open up their system is to release political prisoners. 
— Ian Kelly, spokesman for US State Department |
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