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...political life. For more than a month, thousands of street protesters have rallied in Bangkok, even besieging Government House last week and forcing the 73-year-old P.M. to sneak to work through a back door. On June 27, the veteran politician, who also moonlights as a television chef, suffered the indignity of a parliamentary no-confidence vote; although Samak's six-party coalition, which controls two-thirds of the lower house, shot down the motion by a vote of 280-162, there's no end in sight to Thailand's political crisis. Investors, spooked by the continuing turmoil, have...
...possibility of a court case derailing his leadership and vowed to serve out his four-year term. But Thaksin is the only elected Prime Minister in modern Thai history to complete a full term. Unless Samak can channel Thaksin's once-mighty political skills, the occasional TV chef may be returning to stirring the wok full-time...
...burger has been around forever ... I wanted to try to give it a facelift," says Que Vinh Dang, executive chef at Duke's Burger, (852) 2526 7062, one of latest additions to Hong Kong's SoHo dining district. He's not the only one. Designer burgers - with the foie-gras toppings, sprinkled truffles and all the rest - have been popping up on menus everywhere these past few years. And there's already a cluster of better-class burger bars in Hong Kong. But Duke's Burger is by far the smartest (and newest) of them, and it offers a menu...
...have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like Top Chef have been telling us for a while now: that the customer-service business is hard work...
Thus we learn that, like a chef or a spa owner, she has to deal with bad reviews (on a website for sex connoisseurs). Her friends tend to be other service pros: bar managers, boutique clerks, concierges. She earns £105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...