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China
ANALYSIS: Billions lie idle in China due to nonconvertible currency
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Southeast Asia
Recession chips away at Singapore's good life
ANALYSIS: First execution in 23 years won't end debate
Paving the way for East Timor independence
For refugees, only uncertainty is certain
ANALYSIS: Habibie ruffles feathers in Singapore
Chinese Indonesians cautiously await New Year
Timor independence card not on Aussie P.M.'s table
ANALYSIS: Prisoners' release a gambit for EU-ASEAN meet
Philippines expects to discuss Spratlys at ASEM meet
Reports of arms shipments overshadow Philippines talks
Critics struggle to make political space
Hun Sen gets aid - and a new chance
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Japan
EDITORIAL: Amakudari is in order for Mr. Yen
With economy down, soul-searching on the rise
EDITORIAL: Long on memory, short on vision
EDITORIAL: BOJ takes easy way out - into deeper trouble
MOF to resume govt. bond buying: Miyazawa
Japan bond yield plunges on MOF decision to resume buying
BOJ: Short-term interest rates can sink further
MEDIA WATCH: Gang-boosters?
Japan's taxis face a bumpy ride ahead
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Koreas
North Korea said to prepare for ''imminent'' attack by U.S.
Defectors find no capitalist paradise
EDITORIAL: A remarkable year for Kim Dae-jung
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India/Pakistan
India comes out fighting from military isolation
Defense bureaucracy takes on real soldiers
ANALYSIS: How far can the bus go?
India, Pakistan break the ice
EDITORIAL: That was then; this is now
ANALYSIS: Talking peace but far from detente
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Central Asia/Russia
As Yeltsin becomes irrelevant, post-Soviet team regroups
Remote Sakhalin Island thirsts for oil boom
Tajik opposition uses force to free comrades
Russian coal miners push for state aid
Global Intelligence Update: CIS security union crumbles
Kyrgyz P.M. accuses officials of embezzlement
Turkmen minister visits Iran for oil export talks
CIS Security union crumbles
More Kazakhstani parties complain of delays in registering
COMMENTARY: Counting trouble in the former Soviet Union
Azerbaijan ponders the Aliev succession problem
COMMENTARY: Leaving Afghanistan, changing the world
Kazakhstan acts agains Trans-World companies
Export of Azerbaijani oil via Russia halted again
ANALYSIS : Bombs mark end of era for Uzbekistan
ANALYSIS: Ocalan's capture spells trouble for Caspian plans
Iran warns against trans-Caspian pipeline
ANALYSIS: CIS defections redefine regional balance
Demarkation accord smooths way for Caspian pipeline
COMMENTARY: Looking back to the future
Kurdish protests continue in several CIS states
Kazakhstan launches census
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Oceania
THEATER: Macbeth in pidgin
Allies split over referendum on republic
Aussie consumer confidence rises to 5-year high
PNG-Australia venture points the way for seabed mining
Expatriates enlisted in independence preparations
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Global Economy
Davos snow job
EDITORIAL: A very different species of economy
EDITORIAL: Conflicting paradigms
U.N. wants a world financial authority
EDITORIAL: The important and the ridiculous at G-7
MEDIA WATCH: A portrait of Uncle Sam as a crony capitalist
G-7 finance ministers meeting has drifted into irrelevancy
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Asian Crisis
Laboring under the crisis
Recession chips away at Singapore's good life
EDITORIAL: When sideshows take center stage
EDITORIAL: Conflicting paradigms
ANALYSIS: Malaysia no longer a lone voice in seeking financial reform
EDITORIAL: 'Another day older and deeper in debt'
Philippines' trade deficit narrows to record low
Pitfalls of prosperity
Japan serious about setting up 'Asian IMF'
EDITORIAL: Asia's bright future
G-7 finance ministers meeting has drifted into irrelevancy
EDITORIAL: A remarkable year for Kim Dae-jung
Pampered sultanate told to change its old ways
Summers: S. Korean corporate restructuring too slow
Seoul conference to look beyond Asian crisis
EDITORIAL: Who needs banks, anyhow?
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Media/Information Technology
MEDIA WATCH: Weeklies spar over crime of the century
Reformasi's roving eye
ANALYSIS: Unseemly rush to accommodate predatory media barons
Newspaper giant locked in battle with government
Journalists challenge Sharif government's press crackdown
ANALYSIS: Turning point for Pakistan's media?
Is e-commerce a panacea for developing countries?
MEDIA WATCH: Gang-boosters?
MEDIA WATCH: A portrait of Uncle Sam as a crony capitalist
UN blames Internet for easy drug access
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Editorials
Davos snow job (Jan. 29, 1999)
Amakudari is in order for Mr. Yen (Feb. 2, 1999)
A very different species of economy (Feb. 1, 1999)
When sideshows take center stage (Feb. 3, 1999)
Conflicting paradigms (Feb. 4, 1999)
EDITORIAL: China's critical March congress (Feb. 5, 1999)
'Another day older and deeper in debt' (Feb. 8, 1999)
Long on memory, short on vision (Feb. 10, 1999)
Misleading misreading (Feb. 11, 1999)
BOJ takes the easy way out - into deeper trouble (Feb. 15, 1999)
Asia's bright future (Feb. 17, 1999)
And you thought the carnival was over . . . . (Feb. 18, 1999)
The important and the ridiculous at G-7 (Feb. 19, 1999)
That was then; this is now (Feb. 22, 1999)
Habibie should resign to avert chaos (Feb. 23, 1999)
A remarkable year for Kim Dae-jung (Feb. 24, 1999)
Who needs banks, anyhow? (Feb. 25, 1999)
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Northeast Asia
Defectors find no capitalist paradise
Defective weapons design mean tanks but no tanks
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South & West Asia
U.N. praises Iran, faults Afghanistan in narcotics war
COMMENTARY: Paying lip service to Gandhian ideals
Gulf heirs welcome a brother to the family
Award galvanises safe lamp project
Cut in food subsidies angers government's allies
'Visit Pakistan' - but not this year
Fleeing war, civilians live in penury in refugee camps
Government eats humble pie over food subsidies
Energy giant Enron faces renewed human rights charges
Journalists challenge Sharif government's press crackdown
Caste prevails over gender
India comes out fighting from military isolation
Counting the cost of ethnic conflict
Civil unrest shatters post-independence hopes
ANALYSIS: Turning point for Pakistan's media?
ANALYSIS: Where is Osama bin Laden?
ANALYSIS: Talking peace but far from detente
Sri Lankan business leaders seek people's views on war
When miracles are mere chemicals
The games men play with the labor of children
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Commentary
CIS defections redefine regional balance
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Indonesia
Violence reveals waning clout of Muslim elders
Violence overshadows progress on autonomy
Paving the way for East Timor independence
World Bank: Rich in resources, poor in performance
Rupiah devaluation ineffective in promoting Indonesian exports
Timor independence card not on Aussie P.M.'s table
ANALYSIS: Habibie ruffles feathers in Singapore
Village a pocket of peace amid Indonesia's turmoil
ANALYSIS: Indonesia breaking up?
EDITORIAL: Habibie should resign to avert chaos
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Religious Wars
COMMENTARY: Paying lip service to Gandhian ideals
COMMENTARY: Missionary's killing marks a turning point
Fundamentalist shadow over India's Republic Day
Hindus vs. Christians - in Trinidad and Tobago
Popular culture resists Hindu-extremist politics
Reformasi movement has different strands
China's religious revivals
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Anwar/Malaysia
EDITORIAL: Conflicting paradigms
ANALYSIS: Malaysia no longer a lone voice in seeking financial reform
Reformasi movement has different strands
Is e-commerce a panacea for developing countries?
Critics struggle to make political space
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Caspian Oil
Oil rush raises fears of ecological disaster
ANALYSIS: Ocalan's capture spells trouble for Caspian plans
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Whither China?
Constitutional changes a two-sided weapon
EDITORIAL: China's critical March congress
China's religious revivals
EDITORIAL: Misleading misreading
Sino-American relations run into choppy waters
EDITORIAL: And you thought the carnival was over
Legal tug-of-war strains China-Hong Kong ties
ANALYSIS: Billions lie idle in China due to nonconvertible currency
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Food/Agriculture
''Suicide seeds'' arouse concern
Brazil crisis roils Asian commodities markets
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Environment
Young people demand a voice in global policy
Grassroots groups vie with Japanese bureaucrats
World Bank urged to boost 'green' energy
Enough is enough, Aboriginals say of nuclear dump plan
Singapore, Indonesia talk dirty in waste dispute
Solving a Himalayan water problem?
Singapore, Indonesia talk dirty in waste dispute
Solving a Himalayan water problem?
Singapore, Indonesia talk dirty in waste dispute
Suffer India's little children
Suffer India's little children
Multimillion dollar plan to save mangrove forest
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Arts/Leisure
Cultural commisars wary of Disney film
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Trends/Society
Migration continues, crisis or no crisis
U.S. and Japan renege on funding pledges for action plan
Outlook bright for Hague conference
Women prosecutors expose legal flaws
ANALYSIS: First execution in 23 years won't end debate
Migration continues, crisis or no crisis
ANALYSIS: First execution in 23 years won't end debate
For refugees, only uncertainty is certain
Caste prevails over gender
In this jumpy Year of the Rabbit, a little feng shui can't hurt
Tired of silence, consumers speak up for rights
Aging populace weighs heavily on China
When miracles are mere chemicals
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