Medellin on the Mekong: drug money threatens a country's fragile order
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Cambodia is becoming a drug transportation center and a haven for criminals thanks to massive corruption, supplemented by weak or nonexistent laws and a desperate lack of equipment. The US Drug Enforcement Administration says the nation is a major transit point for drugs from Laos and Burma, and Interpol says that between 150 to 300 of the world's most-wanted criminals are now there. Cambodia has no laws targeting money-laundering, an increasingly popular activity there, and its law against drug smuggling is inherited from UN authority.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Pirates or police? High-seas seizures by Chinese renew shippers' fears
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Chinese involvement in high-seas piracy is apparently increasing once again, having declined in 1994 after rising for several years. The most prominent current case involves two vessels from HM Shipping & Trading, individually diverted from their Singapore-Cambodia runs by Chinese naval vessels some 2,000 km from Chinese waters, brought to Shanwei in China, and charged with smuggling. Piracy is rising throughout Southeast Asia, though declining in northern East Asian waters; Asian piracy costs about $100 million annually.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Golden tongue: non-Chinese flock to Mandarin-language schools
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Chinese schools in Malaysia draw a rising number of ethnically non-Chinese students whose parents think Mandarin is the future language of Asian commerce. These schools have a much higher passing rate in the national mathematics exams, though they rank below average in Malay-language exams, and only 40% of the non-Chinese students at such schools pass the Chinese national exams. The number of such non-Chinese students has doubled to 35,000 since 1991, perhaps indicating more racial maturity in the nation.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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