Strike for Rising Fuel Costs(1)

Caption: More than 11,000 South Korean truck drivers went on strike Friday to protest rising fuel prices, paralyzing ports and cargo terminals and challenging the already unpopular new government of President Lee Myung Bak. Across Asia, as in the rest of the world, sharp increases in fuel prices continued to stoke public anger Friday. In Malaysia and Thailand, consumers and truckers demanding more fuel subsidies from their governments threatened to strike and Thai fishermen warned that they would burn their boats.