This is an anti-preaching site. No preaching. No self-righteousness.
On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
Workers in Southeast Asia's shrimp industry suffer regular abuse and sometimes live in what amounts to virtual slavery, a human-rights organization said Wednesday.
As the frequency of piracy on the high seas grows, many ship owners aren't willing to wait for the navy to help them out
The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting.
Washington's man in Asia, Christopher Hill, helped broker a breakthrough deal with North Korea. As pressure mounts on Pyongyang to deliver a complete nuclear declaration amid the election of a new president in Seoul, Hill discusses the landmark six-party talks, his thoughts on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and concerns over China's growing military power. Once the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Hill walks CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae through his old haunts in Seoul and sits down for a meal with her at his favorite Korean restaurant, now something of a local landmark thanks to his patronage.
Sanrio is a worldwide designer and distributor of character-branded stationery, school supplies, gifts, and accessories.
Angelina Jolie, who was distanced from the espionage game as Matt Damon's wife in last year's The Good Shepherd, plans to jump feet first into the spy ring for an upcoming move.
A scarcity of petroleum engineers means hard-to-get crude is increasingly difficult to extract -- and even high salaries will not solve the problem overnight
Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington provide a smooth and appealing update on the gangster-as-tragic-hero myth
This is an anti-preaching site. No preaching. No self-righteousness.
On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
Workers in Southeast Asia's shrimp industry suffer regular abuse and sometimes live in what amounts to virtual slavery, a human-rights organization said Wednesday.
As the frequency of piracy on the high seas grows, many ship owners aren't willing to wait for the navy to help them out
The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting.
Washington's man in Asia, Christopher Hill, helped broker a breakthrough deal with North Korea. As pressure mounts on Pyongyang to deliver a complete nuclear declaration amid the election of a new president in Seoul, Hill discusses the landmark six-party talks, his thoughts on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and concerns over China's growing military power. Once the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Hill walks CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae through his old haunts in Seoul and sits down for a meal with her at his favorite Korean restaurant, now something of a local landmark thanks to his patronage.
Sanrio is a worldwide designer and distributor of character-branded stationery, school supplies, gifts, and accessories.
Angelina Jolie, who was distanced from the espionage game as Matt Damon's wife in last year's The Good Shepherd, plans to jump feet first into the spy ring for an upcoming move.
A scarcity of petroleum engineers means hard-to-get crude is increasingly difficult to extract -- and even high salaries will not solve the problem overnight
Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington provide a smooth and appealing update on the gangster-as-tragic-hero myth
A three-year-long manhunt ends as suspected pedophile Christopher Paul Neil is apprehended
For most of the morning the other day, they locked down one of the two massive runways at busy Changi International Airport here. This was unusual.
Powerful earthquakes terrorized Indonesia for a third day Friday as thousands of people slept outside in the hills, and seismologists warned that the worst may be yet to come
Indonesia was shaken Thursday by the third earthquake in less than 24 hours, and survivors described the ocean retreating and racing back to shore as a 10-foot-high tsunami
Essay: When resorts are tailored to comfort tourists by offering familiar experiences, it can be hard to remember just where you are
In his new book, "Street Food: Exploring the World's Most Authentic Tastes," Tom Kime, a chef who has worked in top restaurants in London, Sydney and Malta, reveals how to make 89 favorite dishes that he has tasted during his many trips around the globe. While the book focuses on recipes, Kime learned quite a bit more while conducting research on the streets of Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and beyond. We asked him for tips on finding the most delicious food and avoiding an upset stomach, or worse.
I thought it was a joke when I first got the e-mail. CNN's Jakarta producer contacted me to say that the recently captured Indonesian terrorist suspect, Abu Dujana, was willing to do an interview. I felt like saying "Yes, well let's see if Osama's available too, and we can see if we can get them on Larry King as a double act."
The Bush administration on Tuesday added seven nations, including several key U.S. allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist
CNN International turns the spotlight on terrorism in Southeast Asia during a week of special reports -- "Southeast Asia: The Forgotten Front," beginning Monday, December 18.
One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorists is in police custody, an anti-terror police official in Indonesia has told CNN.
Some will be limping, some will be limbless, some will appear totally normal, but all will be affected in some way by their experience in Iraq ... forever, and so will their families. Such is war.
AirAsia X, the region's newest budget airline, has shelved plans for a July launch.
3i is one of the world's leading venture capital and private equity firms with offices and business interests in Europe, the U.S., China and South-East Asia.
South Asia is a high-risk region for bird flu and a consequent economic recession because of the large role that poultry plays in the lives of many people there, the World Bank has warned.
Mount Merapi has shot out a cloud of hot ash and gas, ending two days of relative calm and reviving fears of hundreds of people living on its slopes.
Indonesia's Mount Merapi is spewing clouds of gas, ash and rock, but activity appears to have eased a day after the mountain had its most violent eruption in weeks.
Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, President Bush said Thursday.
A 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Turkey, becoming the country's second person to succumb to the virus, according to health officials.
A 14-year-old boy died in Turkey from bird flu in the first known human death from the illness outside of China and Southeast Asia, Turkish health officials said Wednesday.
Thailand's Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a 5-year-old boy from avian influenza.
Tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Fifty-nine percent of companies say they won't be giving out holiday bonuses in any form this year. And of those that will, only 13 percent said they will be giving out bonuses in cash.
Public health officials say they are prepared for the flu season this year, but their confidence is tempered by fears of a possible bird flu pandemic.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu.
A San Francisco antiques dealer dies under suspicious circumstances days before she is scheduled to lead a group of rich American tourists through Southeast Asia.
The detection of bird flu in Europe and further deaths from the disease in Asia have heightened health concerns for people visiting affected countries.
In an age of anxiety and fear, safety and security have perhaps become the ultimate luxury commodities.
At least one American is missing and presumed dead following last week's terror attacks that killed more than 50 people in London, England. New Yorker Michael Matsushita, 37, is believed to have been caught in the explosion on a train near King's Cross station.
TALK ABOUT GUARDING THE HENHOUSE. TO REACH ONE OF the secluded chicken farms of Charles River Laboratories, a Wilmington, Mass., biomedical products and services company, you wind along a New Engla...
Insured losses from the 2004 Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami will be less than $4 billion, according to a Risk Management Solutions report issued this week.
The World Health Organization has said that nearly all the people affected by the tsunami that hit southern Asia last month will suffer some form of psychosocial trauma.
While helicopter-dropped food packages dominate the headlines, another army of workers are scrambling behind the scenes to make the water filtration systems, logistics arrangements and other specialized equipment needed for the disaster response effort.
Australia and Indonesia are stepping up their joint efforts to fight terrorism in the region, with Canberra doubling its financial aid to Jakarta.
The World Health Organization has issued a dramatic warning that bird flu will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million people.
A dangerous intruder has invaded Everglades National Park, and it's putting the native wildlife at risk.
A powerful blast has hit Jakarta's central business district near the Australian Embassy, killing at least three people and wounding many more.
Southeast Asia's biggest phone company, Singapore Telecommunications, is on a "steady footing" after posting a net profit of S$700 million ($406 million) for the June 2004 quarter, CEO Lee Hsien Yang said Thursday.
Ecuador has defaulted on its debt more than any other nation. So why would you want to buy its bonds? Or, for that matter, those of Russia, where oligarchs and an ex-KGB agent wrestle one another f...
Remember these common sense points when you're looking into doing some traveling.
According to the American Council on Exercise, a top-notch exercise program should have three components: strength, flexibility and aerobic training.
In the early days of budget travel, low fare airlines catered for tourists on a shoestring budget, but now no-frills airlines are casting their spell over business fliers as well.
Australian police have arrested a man over a Southeast Asia sunken treasure scheme that promised huge returns to investors.
From Wolf Blitzer Reports' Jennifer Coggiola in Washington:
To answer your first question: That yellow thing looming above is a Buddha's Hand citron (a.k.a. fingered citron), a fruit native to Southeast Asia. To answer your second question: It's in FORTUNE ...
A group of six old women kneel in the middle of the street and chat amiably as the sun rises over Luang Prabang, a quiet town in central Laos. Their conversation stops when a rail-thin Buddhist mon...
Black pepper "is the most important spice in the world," says celebrity chef Bobby Flay. "If I had to give up black pepper for Lent, I'd starve to death." What Flay and the rest of us probably have...
In architecture, as in all things, human beings have been forever trying to outdo one another. But it was the arrival of steel near the end of the 19th century that let the game begin in earnest. I...
Jim Grant hasn't always been a bear. "Once in 1978," the editor of the iconoclastic biweekly Grant's Interest Rate Observer dead-panned in November at his 30th investment conference in 15 years, "I...
If you own an S&P 500 index fund, you're actually making a diversified international play, according to a new study by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The index's companies make almost a quarter of the...
When health officials in Hong Kong ordered the slaughter of the island's 1.3 million chickens this past January, a cynic might have expected New York Stock Exchange traders to start hoarding Chicke...
U.S. business executives finally appear to be getting worried about the Asia crisis' effect on the economy. But not too worried. FORTUNE's business confidence index for mid-January was 152. That's ...
It's getting to be a familiar plot: Banks throw dollars at fast-developing countries. The borrowers gorge on cheap credit until their propped-up currencies collapse, swamping them with dollar debt ...
Can there be a silver lining to the Asian currency crises? Actually, yes--for travelers. The turmoil has opened a window on some great high-end travel bargains, particularly in Thailand and Malaysi...
Want something to worry about besides the year-2000 effect on the world's computers? Try wringing your hands about overcapacity. The New York Times recently fingered it as capable of causing the de...
I like the theory of efficient financial markets as much as anyone. I don't begrudge Robert Merton and Myron Scholes the Nobel Prize they just received for showing how that theory can help you pric...
When it comes to investing these days, you may agree with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz--there's no place like home. After all, once you step off U.S. shores, you risk being swept up in a global mark...
If only the world always made sense. Then the best way to bet on a comeback in Southeast Asia would be obvious: Buy closed-end country funds. After all, they must be really cheap now, given the big...
As far as the citizens of Hong Kong were concerned, Wednesday, Oct. 23, couldn't have been a more inauspicious day. In the city's financial center, a plumbing fault suddenly drained an ornamental p...
In the wake of devastating currency declines, the Southeast Asian stock markets are shuddering. Since early 1997, equity prices in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have...
When Thailand's stock market plunged 50% in dollar terms this past summer, taking those in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines down with it, you would have expected every emerging-m...
You'd expect Ford, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and other multinationals to be more than a little nervous about the economic convulsions that have rocked Southeast Asia--plunging currencies, crashi...
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, people have been talking about the possibility of making big money in Eastern Europe. Now at least some investors are. A little-known mutual fund, Vontobel Eas...
To U.S. automakers, Asia looks as California must have to the prospectors of 1849: a place to strike it rich. Weary of competing in the slow-growing, overcrowded markets of North America and Wester...
If 1996's first quarter is any indication, emerging markets are back on mutual fund investors' dance cards: In January more than $1 billion was pumped into emerging markets equity funds, nearly one...
Where can you get great funds at a discount? In the backwater of the mutual fund business, that shallow pool called closed-end funds, where values are better than they've been in years.
A sailor at heart, investment maven Katherine Busboom Magrath, 54, set up shop in the yachting mecca of Marblehead, Massachusetts. With her yawl Gesina moored nearby, the chief investment officer o...
This is the best year for the travel industry since 1986," says Kidder Peabody analyst Bjorn Hanson. So what, say you. Your last vacation was a big letdown, and now you refuse to even plan a trip t...
Remember how tough it was competing against Japan when the dollar was strong? Well, don't get too comfortable now, even though currency markets have knocked the greenback down to 103 yen, almost it...
For sheer global reach and historic impact, few commercial enterprises ever have -- or ever will -- come close to the English East India Company. At its height early in the 19th century, the compan...
The corporate jet, essentially a 1960s U.S. invention, has largely remained a trapping peculiar to American corporate culture ever since, with 50% to 75% of the market for such planes residing in N...
Donna Johnson, 47, and her artist husband Bruce, 49, spend four to six weeks a year traveling to intriguing places like Russia, China and Southeast Asia -- both to paint and to gather art that they...
As befits a man born in Holland, the first foreign stock Maurits E. Edersheim bought when he was a young investor on Wall Street was Royal Dutch/Shell. That was in the late 1940s, when only the int...
Germans and Japanese have fallen for Jeeps. Saudi sheikhs won't give up their Cadillacs. When Chinese hail a taxi, they get a Ford Tempo. Detroit, once renowned for its provincialism, is finally be...
What will the accord between Israelis and Palestinians mean for them economically? For both sides the potential gains are significant. The prospect of peace has already excited stock prices on the ...
THE NATIONS of the Pacific Rim bound toward the year 2000 at a growth rate unmatched by most of the globe. But the trip is not without its dangers. FORTUNEasked respected business and political lea...
There's little doubt the economy is frazzled. Job cuts mount, consumer confidence wanes, housing starts fall, auto sales idle. But will it fizzle as it did last year, when the slow-mo recovery that...
After years of surging sales, Japanese automakers are shifting into low gear as domestic demand for cars and trucks slows (see chart). One reason for the slump: Japanese buyers have less disposable...
DRESSED in delicate batik or colorful silk, most Asian women act charmingly deferential to men. But don't be fooled by outward appearances. A seemingly demure, fluttering creature may actually be a...
Singapore has surfaced as the Kuwait of Southeast Asia: a small country (pop. 2.7 million) with billions of dollars of hard cash for investment overseas. Conservative estimates place the republic's...
Increasingly, Thailand, Malaysia, and other industrializing countries in Southeast Asia have come to seem like part of an integrated manufacturing and trading zone dominated by Japan Inc. Since 197...
WHAT MAKES a good banking connection in Asia today is a far cry from what customers looked for a decade ago. Big borrowers of the recent past, like South Korea, are so flush that they now look to f...
JAPAN blazed the export trail. But soon a new group of champions came roaring down that path -- Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now a second pack of Asian nations is carving out a gr...
Joseph Laurenzano thought he had done everything right. On a recent stopover in Rome, the 68-year-old retiree from Belen, N.M. checked his luggage at the Termini train station and shifted his walle...
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