Word: bangkok
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...meters Length of a banner depicting Thailand's Grand Palace set up to screen a Bangkok slum from the view of APEC summiteers...
These are fast times for Wacharee Nispaprapassorn. The 28-year-old information technology consultant sits in a gleaming Starbucks on Bangkok's ritziest road, Langsuan, sipping an iced latte and chatting excitedly about her new life. Last month, she says, she bought a new car. Now she wants a new apartment in a luxury building just a few doors from here. The building has been on sale for just two weeks but three-quarters of the flats have already been sold. "If I don't buy now I'll never be able to afford it," she says. "The prices...
...Bangkok...
Hambali and his lieutenants were also charged with casing targets, including the U.S and British embassies in Bangkok, various nightclubs in Thailand and shopping complexes frequented by Westerners in the elite Makati district of Manila. Jewish and Israeli sites received close attention. Though anti-Semitism is central to al-Qaeda's creed, the group has not traditionally focused on attacking Jews. That may have changed last November, when suicide bombers struck a Mombasa hotel frequented by Israelis, killing 13 people, and two shoulder-launched missiles were fired at an Israeli plane nearby. The Kenyan attacks may presage more to come...
...ites, Chinese and Tibetans, among many others. Cambodia's leniency toward its mass murderers, which Iyer cited, is part of the problem, not the solution. By perpetuating hoary bromides about Asia's older cultures, Iyer furthers the very East vs. West attitude that he seems to oppose. Sanpaworn Vamvanij Bangkok...