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Everybody's Business
Hutchison, Keith | December 9, 1950 issue

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The article focuses on the socio-economic conditions of Southeast Asian countries. One quarter of the earth's population, live in South and Southeast Asia, a region, which comprises India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Indonesia. In ancient times this part of the world was considered a treasure house, rich in precious metals, jewels and rare spices; and indeed it produced fabulous wealth for a handful of native rulers and Western merchant adventurers. But abject poverty has always been and still is the common lot of the mass of its inhabitants. Yet the region does not lack natural resources. It produces, in fact, very large amounts of raw materials for Western industries.

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SOUTHEAST Asia -- Social conditions; SOCIAL history; NATURAL resources; RAW materials; POVERTY; SOUTHEAST Asia
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