So when a South Korea or Thailand, for example, makes outside capital feel unwelcome, it will find alternatives.
But a decision by the Federal Reserve to make a quarter-point cut, say, would do little to help Russia, Brazil or Thailand.
This would be jeopardized by political unrest in, say, Indonesia or Thailand.
"It was planned as a destination wedding to tempt other Indian families to use South Africa as a venue instead of going to Mauritius or Thailand, " spokesman Haranath Ghosh said in a statement.
Although Vietnam themes have been a mainstay for Hollywood movies over the decades, all the flicks, from Green Berets and Apocalypse Now to the Rambo series, were shot elsewhere, usually the Philippines or Thailand.
The British government is still advising against non-essential travel to Sri Lanka's eastern, southern and south-west coasts or to Thailand's west coast.
This takes them through China and on to countries such as Thailand or Mongolia.
Keeping credit risks under control in Thailand or Brazil will be a serious management challenge.
But in Indonesia, says political scientist Sanit, "you don't see economic reform affecting political reform" as in Thailand or South Korea.
In countries such as Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia this could prove salutary, if it unseats old and complacent politicians and forces much-needed change.
Accessible only from Thailand or India, "The Land of the Thunder Dragon, " is one of the most uniquely individual places on earth, physically and culturally.
The World Economic Forum ranks Indonesia 69th out of 104 countries for its international competitiveness, far behind regional rivals such as Malaysia, Thailand or China.
"If you look out five years, we can gain back all the competitiveness Thailand or Indonesia or the Philippines had when their currencies devalued, " says the General Chamber's Tien.
It has made more progress in disposing of banks' non-performing loans than have Thailand or Indonesia (or Japan, indeed), so Korean banks are now able to make new loans to both firms and households.
If you were brave enough to invest in South Korea, Thailand or Indonesia in September, at the height of the panic in international markets, you might by now have doubled your money in dollar terms.
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Even Hong Kong, whose economy has little in common with Thailand's or Indonesia's, saw its share index slide nearly 15% over three days.
They came to cruise the remote spice islands in Indonesia, the dragon-dotted shores of Komodo, the scuba fantasyland of Raja Ampat, or simply to escape to Thailand and Burma.
When the crisis broke out in Thailand two years ago, the Philippine banks were well capitalized, corporate debt levels were low by Asian standards and, unlike Thailand's or South Korea's, little of the country's foreign debt was of short-term maturity.
Whereas other monarchies have mostly abolished or stopped enforcing such laws, Thailand's was made harsher in the 1970s.
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There, the downtown streets were lined with clothing stores that sold lungyis and knockoff jeans, or T-shirts imported from Thailand.
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But, second, Mr Thaksin has done nothing to promote the idea that independent agencies, checks and balances, or other constitutional safeguards matter to Thailand's future.
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.
Yet policymakers are as in as much denial that there is a big problem (i.e. with the euro rather than any individual country) as Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson were that there was a housing bust, as Dick Fuld was that Lehman was toast, or as the IMF was that Thailand, let alone Asia, had profound economic weaknesses.
Silver and copper are smaller markets, but their adherents argue that the industrial demands for the shiny stuff by nations that must build out their infrastructure products such as the fast speed transportation system in China or the ports of India, Thailand another emerging markets clearly suggest a shortage of silver and copper, possibly iron ore as well.
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Thailand issued visas on demand or upon arrival to everyone fleeing Cambodia, while the Malaysian and Singaporean em-bassies sheltered terrified partisans.
But whether or not the weather is kind to Thailand, nature has already been showering her graces on the country's neighbours.
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