Bamboo network
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The bamboo network or the Chinese Commonwealth is a term used to conceptualize the links between businesses run by overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. It links the overseas Chinese business community
Large numbers of Chinese male immigrants labored in rubber plantations and tin mines of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand while others set up small provision shops to eke out a living for themselves.
1997 Asian financial crisis
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The 1997 Asian financial crisis gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effec
Rioters in Jakarta, during the May 1998 riots of Indonesia
Fall of Suharto: President Suharto resigns, 21 May 1998.