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Fake, faulty malaria drugs alarmingly common, study finds
World NowMore than one-third of malaria medicines tested in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were fake or faulty, according to a new study that warns shoddy drugs could fuel the rise of hardier parasites.... -
Russian plane goes missing in Indonesia
MOSCOW — A new Russian passenger plane with 50 people aboard went missing Wednesday during a demonstration flight over Indonesia, officials said.
The Sukhoi Superjet 100, on a South Asian promotional tour, disappeared from radar screens 20...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Television Networks, Indonesia, Economy, Business and Finance, Moscow (Russia)
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Bad weather hampering search for missing Russian plane
World NowBad weather forced 200 Indonesian rescue workers to fan out on foot across a mountainous area east of Jakarta on Wednesday in search of a Russian passenger plane that went missing on a demonstration flight and was presumed to have crashed, Russian and... -
Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Politics, Civil Rights, Biography (genre), Lyndon B. Johnson, Political Corruption
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Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
After last week's earthquake in the Indian Ocean, people in Indonesia responded far differently than they had seven years earlier, after another major quake: They evacuated low coastal areas to escape a possible tsunami. As it turned out, there were no...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Japan, Bodies of Water, Budgets and Budgeting, Oceans
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Your Scene: Elephantine experience in Thailand
To celebrate his mother Eleanor's 90th birthday, Robert Murphy and his family traveled to Southeast Asia in December. In Thailand, the group visited the Patara Elephant Farm in Chiang Mai, where Murphy's grandson, then-8-year-old Luca, met this baby...
Tags: Thailand, Nikon Corp
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Your Scene: Generational contrast in Laos
Martin Voet and his partner, Thea Cohen, traveled to Southeast Asia last fall with a group of UC Berkeley alumni. In northern Laos, he spotted this boy sitting with an elderly monk at a temple along the banks of the Mekong River.
The contrast between the...Tags: Laos, Nikon Corp
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Southeast Asian sweets add variety to life
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFresh mango glistening the brilliant orange of a late-summer sun, glutinous rice balls glowing a radiant pandan green, tender taro cakes blooming the same piercing purple as a field of lilacs. Bhan Kanom Thai is a rainbow rush of colors. The Hollywood...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Mangos, Coconut Cream, Indonesia
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Major earthquake in Indonesia sparks tsunami fears
World NowEarthquake Indonesia Tsunami : A major earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia Wednesday afternoon with a reported magnitude of 8.6, sparking tsunami warnings for Australia and coastal nations across Southeast Asia, central Asia and parts of the... -
In Indonesia, watching the sun rise with 504 Buddhas
Four a.m. is a terrible time of day, too late for night owls, too early for early risers. The exception is 4 a.m. at Borobudur, waiting for the sun to rise over the Kedu Plain in central Java with 504 figures of Buddha.
The temple is one of three great...Tags: UNESCO, Religion and Belief, Myanmar Earthquake (2011), Arts, Indonesia
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Robert Lawrence Balzer dies at 99: L.A. Times wine writer
Robert Lawrence Balzer, a wine critic and educator who wrote an influential column in The Times for three decades during a career that stretched from the post-Prohibition era through the explosion of the California wine industry he championed, has died....Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Food Industry, Gloria Swanson
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Travel updates for 2012
Think of what follows as a travel tapas buffet — tidbits that just might whet your appetite for more. Here are a dozen pieces of information for the 2012 traveler.
1. You will know how much you'll pay to check your bags when you're flying. The...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Companies and Corporations, Interior Policy, Cruise Line Ports, Hotels and Accommodations
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