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Getting Warmer: U.S. Ambassador to Burma, Derek Mitchell
RANGOON, Burma _ Diplomats in Rangoon still joke about the speed with which the new US ambassador to Burma, Derek Mitchell, was accredited by the Burmese government following his appointment last year. A process that ...
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Can Burma Avoid the Curse of Sex Tourism?
RANGOON, Burma _ On a recent evening at a popular beer hall in Rangoon, two dozen women wearing skimpy dresses and hair extensions swayed mechanically on a stage and took turns mumbling lines of high-energy ...
A U.S. Degree at Any Cost
SHANGHAI _ David Zhu, a Shanghai university student, is nowhere close to being fluent in English. But that hasn’t stopped him from enrolling at Oregon State University this fall to pursue a bachelor’s degree in ...
Art-Fair Boom: HK and Singapore Compete for Cultural Top Slot
SINGAPORE _ When photographers Rachel Rillo and Isa Lorenzo opened their Silverlens gallery in Manila in 2004 — the first dedicated photography gallery in the Philippines — they had few ways to reach buyers outside the ...
Chinese Interest Key to Australian Open Future
MELBOURNE, Australia _ When Li Na saw all the Chinese flags and heard the cheers of “Jia You,” or “Let’s Go” in Mandarin, during her Australian Open final against Victoria Azarenka, she thought she might ...
Restaurant Report: Violet Oon’s Kitchen in Singapore
SINGAPORE _ Before Joel Robuchon, Guy Savoy and Daniel Boulud came to Singapore, the country had its own homegrown celebrity chef — Violet Oon, sometimes referred to as the Julia Child of Singapore. Ms. Oon, ...
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