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...food makes up for that. Housed in adjoining century-old shophouses, it serves the balls of rice with chicken, bean sprouts and soy sauce that are the local specialty, with plenty of other Peranakan dishes besides. Mealtimes are cacophonous, but in a good way. A location just around the corner from the Jalan Hang Jebat shopping street (or Jonker Street, as it's also called in commemoration of Malacca's former Dutch masters) makes it a perfect pit stop...
...ALTSEAN, an activist network involved in Burma issues, urged the two U.S. diplomats to stand firm on democracy and human rights during their visit. "The regime won't like it, but they will respect the U.S. more for it. They will know that the U.S. can't be pushed around or fooled like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations," she says. ASEAN, which admitted Burma as a member in 1997, has advocated a course of "constructive engagement" as a way of moderating the regime's behavior, including expanding economic and business ties. Stothard says that policy has failed, as evidenced...
...longtime Colombian girlfriend and now, along with an Ecuadorian partner, designs buildings in Buenos Aires. Still, his upbringing among fabulously wealthy criminals can show through in his blueprints. "He's a very good architect," say Entel, the filmmaker. "But sometimes you can see the way he grew up around Pablo Escobar reflected in his ideas. Because I would never think of designing furniture for inside a swimming pool...
...pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...embassy takeover - typically marked by government-sanctioned displays of anti-Americanism - into a protest against the government. Defying police orders to disperse, hundreds of people gathered at a square not far from the old U.S. embassy, while thousands of other protesters gathered in impromptu crowds on street corners around the city, dodging riot police and plainclothes government security officers...