Asia & Pacific

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The Motley Fool September 29, 2004 Bill Mann	How Do You Repossess a Whole Country? Years of mismanagement of Nauru's trust assets has reduced the island nation to the point of poverty, with little hope of recovery. The final cut comes courtesy of corporate giant GE.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Bremner et al.	Is Asia Prepared for the Next Crisis? Sound budgets, big trade surpluses, healthier banks -- the developing world has come a long way. That's why investors are pouring in money. But the risks haven't disappeared.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	Now Spam Is Being Outsourced Spammers are flocking to Korea and China. Will governments take action?
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Measuring Sea-Level Rise As sea level rises, it threatens to flood the low-lying South Pacific islands that make up the 10-square-mile country of Tuvalu, none of which are higher than 4.5 meters above the ocean.
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004 Stanley Reed	Prelude To Terror Book reviews: Osama, The Making of a Terrorist By Jonathan Randal... Ghost Wars, The The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 By Steve Coll...
InternetNews August 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	UN Backs Open Source With New Agency The United Nations is moving to embrace open source software with the International Open Source Network, which is principally focused on developing nations in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Earthquake Rattles Tibet Early Monday morning, an earthquake shook the sparsely populated Gangdise Mountains in Tibet.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Multinational Naval Exercises Welcome in Southeast Asia In an effort to increase force interoperability and security in Southeast Asia, the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet participates in a series of bi-lateral exercises with other navies in the region. The planner behind some of these exercises is the Logistics Group, Western Pacific.
Geotimes April 2004 Megan Sever	A Gem of a Model A new model shows how, why and when gem rubies from southeast and central Asia were encased in marble matrices. This new model will help southeast and Asian countries locate and extract the precious resource.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Mark L. Clifford	Cleaning Up Asians are starting to demand action on pollution -- and the region's governments are responding.
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