Word: bangkok
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...hidden from prying eyes off Sukhumvit Soi 22, but Bangkok's Washington Square is a compact slice of Americana lost in space and time. If you're in the Thai capital and happen to need a fix of bourbon and Johnny Cash tunes?or a quiet spot to chow down fried chicken amid Jim Beam and Burma Shave signage?then you've found your mecca...
...Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed-use hall as a home for Indonesia's semiprofessional Nusantara Symphony Orchestra; Bangkok, too, is building a classical-music venue, an opera house on the sixth floor of a shopping mall...
...SENTENCED. SOMCHAI KHUNPLEUM, also known as Kamnan Poh, reputedly Thailand's most powerful crime boss; to 25 years in prison for ordering the murder of a rival; in Bangkok. A former mayor who was courted by politicians and feared by criminals and cops alike, Somchai was long thought to be beyond the reach of the law. "I used to have rivals," he once told an interviewer, "but they all died." Freed on $250,000 bail, Somchai plans to appeal the decision in the Supreme Court...
...Thai environmental activist; by an unknown assailant; in Thailand's Prachuab Khiri Khan province. The leader of massive demonstrations that successfully pressured the government into scrapping plans for a power plant in Prachuab Khiri Khan in May 2002, Charoen was shot hours after testifying at an anticorruption hearing in Bangkok. Supporters claim that his testimony, in which he accused local businessmen of corruption in a land deal, was a motive in the murder...
...DIED. THANOM KITTIKACHORN, 92, former Thai strongman whose military regime was overthrown in a bloody student-led uprising in 1973; in Bangkok. Thanom ruled Thailand in the '60s and early '70s as part of a triumvirate of dictators known as the "Three Tyrants," and allowed tens of thousands of U.S. troops to be stationed there during the Vietnam War. He fled into exile after being overthrown but returned in 1976, became a Buddhist monk, and never entered politics again...