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| 1990 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins an overwhelming victory in Burma's general election but the military refuse to hand over power | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew steps down after 31 years in office | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fight for democracy in Burma | |
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| 1992 |
| | | After a single term as president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino returns to private life | |
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| 1998 |
| | | President Suharto is finally forced to resign, after more than 30 corrupt and embezzling years as Indonesia's dictator | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A plebiscite in East Timor delivers a vote for independence from Indonesia | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of Kuta, killing 202 people | |
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| 2003 |
| | | A deadly new form of pneumonia, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads globally | |
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| 2004 |
| | | A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta | |
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