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In the past few years, American newspapers and television programs have carried such varied reports as the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines, the attempts of Vietnam and the U.S. governments to move closer to trade and normalization of relations, the booming economy of the world’s prototype city state, Singapore, the turning of Burma (Myanmar) inward to a virtually closed society, and the continuing concern in this country for American M.I.A.’s of the Vietnam War. All of these Southeast Asian stories have confronted an American population basically unfamiliar both with Southeast Asia, its culture and its geography.
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Noble, A.G. (1996). The Physical Environment. In: Dutt, A.K. (eds) Southeast Asia: A Ten Nation Region. The GeoJournal Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1748-4_3
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