Western residents do not forget.

"Western companies are faced with a moral dilemma," a Western resident in Guangdong said.

There is some suspicion among Western residents in Bangkok that the government's new restrictions are aimed in part at curbing their entertainment.

The issue of what should appear on maps has now gone beyond the archeological community to pit longtime Western residents against newcomers.

"The papers are even less interesting now than they were, if you can imagine that," said a Western resident of Myanmar, formerly Burma.

The insurgency has exposed Nepal's vast inequalities and, to the surprise of many longtime Western residents, its potential for savagery.

For Western residents, discovering and sharing the city's latest eating spots now rivals Kremlinology as the favorite parlor game.

Several Chinese and Western residents of Shanghai with long experience in business blame both sides for the butter battle.

Conservationists and other Western residents cannot raise the estimated $200,000 the trip cost.

Washington quickly sent the Marines to evacuate Western residents, saving them from the mayhem but doing nothing to relieve the country's distress.