The News Review:

- Smuggled Chinese Travel Circuitously to the US
- Asian markets fall on lingering concerns over the subprime credit…
- TNCC: Time to Look Ahead Business seminar 19-21 November 2007
- Thanda Private Game Reserve handed Luxury Travel Award
- Surprise pressure from Myanmar’s neighbors

Smuggled Chinese Travel Circuitously to the US
NPR – Nov 19, 2007
The man didn’t want his name used. “Most of them are foreigners. There’s a hotel called Malaysia Hotel at Lumpini that has some people who make fake passports. It is the biggest source of fake passports in Thailand” he says. “At the hotel they do everything for you. “The restaurant owner started dealing passports about 10 years ago. He is a middleman buying passports and selling them to the next middleman.

Asian markets fall on lingering concerns over the subprime credit…
International Herald Tribune – Nov 19, 2007
It plummeted 2 percent Friday. MUMBAI: Indian shares fell dragged lower by tobacco and hotel conglomerate ITC Ltd. The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex index fell 0. 3 percent to 19633 points. SEUL: South Korea's Kospi fell to a two-month low following regional weakness and dragged down by technology and banking shares.

TNCC: Time to Look Ahead Business seminar 19-21 November 2007
ScandAsia.com – Nov 19, 2007
The seminar will be held in Bangkok 19-21 November 2007 at the Conrad Hotel. For more information about the seminar go to the Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce at:.

Thanda Private Game Reserve handed Luxury Travel Award
easier.com – Nov 19, 2007
Thanda?s Marketing Director Anita Vernes commented from London ?Thanda Private Game Reserve has been the proud recipient of many consumer-driven awards. This particular award is of huge value to us as it is indicative of the great support we have had from the trade over the last three years. ?ther nominees in the ?luxury individual lodge hotel or resort offering best overall product and service? category included Rayavadee (Thailand) Burj Al Arab (Dubai) Anse Chastanet (St Lucia) and Half Moon (Jamaica). This year the nominations for each category were proffered by a cross-section of Selling Long Haul readers. Travel agents tour operators and reservations staff were asked to select the products they felt offer the best service and the suppliers they recommend most often to their clients. Category winners were selected by the Selling Long Haul readership and the awards were dedicated entirely to long haul destinations and tourism products. Thanda Private Game Reserve strives to transcend international standards of excellence and is honoured to have received this award alongside some of the world?s best hotels and holiday destinations.

Surprise pressure from Myanmar’s neighbors
International Herald Tribune – Nov 19, 2007
Myanmar because of its violent crackdown on a domestic uprising in September and stubborn resistance to democratic reform has become a major stumbling block at the 13th summit meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. riginally scheduled as five days of polite ceremonies commemorating the group's 40th anniversary and the signing of a new charter binding Asean into a European-style community the meeting has become mired in the question of whether Asean can make progress as an institution without the ability to influence a member whose brutal behavior violates the group's central principles. At an informal dinner between heads of state Monday night at the five-star Shangri-La Hotel here President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines directly addressed the problem. “The belief of the Filipino people and the Philippine Congress as well as my own that those who will sign the Charter agree to the objective spirit and intent of establishing a human rights body — the full protection of human rights within Asean” she said reading out a prepared statement a copy of which was forwarded to reporters. “With this in mind the expectation of the Philippines is that if Myanmar signs the Charter it is committed to returning to the path of democracy and release Aung San Suu Kyi. Until the Philippine Congress sees that happen it would have extreme difficulty in ratifying the Asean Charter. ” Today in Asia & Pacific… “The regime is creating these displaced people. The repression within Burma is having adverse consequences. ” Established in 1967 as a bulwark against communism Asean was composed originally of the region's more developed and democratic states: Singapore Thailand Malaysia Indonesia and the Philippines. Since the end of the Cold War 15 years ago it has carved out a new a role as a nonpartisan agent of economic development admitting smaller neighbors with less democratic governments such as Brunei Vietnam Laos Cambodia and in 1997 Myanmar. None of the group's members have a spotless record on human rights. Vietnam and Laos are notorious for their intolerance of dissent. Arroyo's own government faces criticism over extrajudicial killings.

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