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   Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year- a book review

   Title: Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year Author: Tricia Morrissey with Illustrations ...

   China Ernie Yap

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   There's life on the railway of death

   Translated from Danish by Andrew Huddleston [Read the Danish version] 16,000 allied prisoners of ...

   Myanmar / Thailand Bjarne Madsen

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   Three men in a boat, a damsel and some dragons

   The ruler of the island, patrolling the shore as we attempted to land our dugout, was not a prett...

   Indonesia Susan Storm

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Introduction

   Hiss! and "Pop!" snap the firecrackers! "Boom!" says the drum to the Lion Dancer. Chinese New Yea...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   The Sound of One Civilization Clashing

   * * * * * Review of V. S. Naipaul's Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples...

   Indonesia / Malaysia / Iran Kenneth Champeon

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Firecrackers

   To scare away the terrible Nian, the daring villagers lit hissing, popping firecrackers. Now the ...

   China / Taiwan Tricia Morrissey

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   Rice

   It is, as usual, a feast and celebration day on Bali. Isle of the Gods, Land of the Lotus eaters,...

   Indonesia Susan Storm

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   India's Poor: Some Episodes

   An article about the kind of poverty one should expect while travelling in India.

   India Kenneth Champeon

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   The Last Train from Bangkok

   Tomorrow, tomorrow, stuff is so easy to put off when the sun blazes at a steady 40 degrees. When ...

   Thailand Neil Campbell

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    The (com)Promised Land Dispatch 5: Kingdoms of Sand and Stone

    I'll tell you what I love. I love standing in the dusty no-man's-land between two borders, feelin...

    Jordan / Israel Jeff Greenwald