Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...
...some 10,000 Communist terrorists had to be subdued in a bitter guerrilla war that had begun nine years before the British moved out. But since then, the country has made solid economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...enjoyed reading your Essay [Aug. 18], "Corruption in Asia." Made me aware of the graft and corruption where I came from, the Philippines. Quite embarrassing to admit and accept the corruption in our government, but it's true. Nepotism in the Philippines is rampant. Compadre system is a way of life...
...breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...