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Captioning sponsored by Annenberg Cpb narrator the geographic region of Southeast Asia and South Pacific is characterized by political and economic disparity, a mosaic of small countries scattered on peninsulas and islands. We begin in laos, Southeast Asias only landlocked country. A long history of isolation has protected its Natural Resources and indigenous cultures. Laos today is beginning to court the Global Economy through the sale of hydroelectric power. Here, we ask if laos can achieve Su...

Contains the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest islamic country in the world. They are, in fact, one and the same indonesia. A fragmentary state spread across an archipelago of 13,000 islands, indonesias motto is unity in diversity. Lately, it does not seem so unified. East timor recently broke away. Rebel forces on aceh and irian jaya threaten the same. While most of indonesia is islamic the island of bali is mostly hindu. Is this why radical muslims recently bombed a pop...

We begin in laos, Southeast Asias only landlocked country. A long history of isolation has protected its Natural Sources and ingenous cultures. Laos today is beginning to court the Global Economy rough e sale ofydelic power. Weskosan achieve sustaible delopment, generang ecomic growth of its indigenous tions wd its natural environment. The mekong river traces an 1,100mile path through or along the border of laos. The river has also been a barrier between laos and its neighbors. Now there is a ro...

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A collection of essays on the Keeyask hydroelectric project, featuring writings by a number of parti...